Get Buying: 2009

Kamis, 31 Desember 2009

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Rush Hospitalized; Prayers Welcome
Best Body in Britain? You Bet!
More on That Useless Commission and Rolling Heads
The Delivery Presents: Umar the SpeedoBomber, Head Wounds, and Jerry Jones

Posted: 30 Dec 2009 07:56 PM PST

News is in tonight that Rush Limbaugh was taken to a Honolulu hospital for chest pains. He is said to be in serious condition right now. There isn’t much more to the story, though if more is reported, I’ll update as the hour and situation warrant. Rush has always been pretty reticent to talk about [...]

Best Body in Britain? You Bet!

Posted: 30 Dec 2009 05:22 PM PST

British women have very good taste. Kate Winslet has the celebrity body most desired by British women, a survey has found. The Oscar-winning actress scored 16 per cent of the vote, pipping equally shapely Kelly Brook to second place with 15 per cent. And skeletal stars Victoria Beckham and Kate Moss finished bottom of the poll of [...]

More on That Useless Commission and Rolling Heads

Posted: 30 Dec 2009 05:05 PM PST

I want to draw your attention to a couple posts that amplify points I made in yesterday’s post on the SpeedoBomber and the utter ridiculousness of the 9/11 Commission and all Congressional hearings of the past eight years. Ed Morrissey asks the same question I asked, “How's that 9/11 Commission reorganization working?”, and reaches the [...]

The Delivery Presents: Umar the SpeedoBomber, Head Wounds, and Jerry Jones

Posted: 30 Dec 2009 02:22 PM PST

There are weeks when I really need to do a lot of show prep for an episode of The Delivery This week was not one of them. Last night, the topic of discussion arrayed itself in front of me like a sumptuous meal, just begging me to dig in (listen, download, iTunes). I could easily [...]

Rabu, 30 Desember 2009

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What on Earth Was That Whole 9/11 Commission For, Anyhow?
When Science is Blind
Politicization? We’re Soaking In It!

What on Earth Was That Whole 9/11 Commission For, Anyhow?

Posted: 29 Dec 2009 07:14 PM PST

I distinctly remember Congress saying it was all over the whole “connecting the dots” thing just a couple or three years ago. Surely — surely! — the 9/11 Commission amounted to more than “Blame George W. Bush”, right? I mean, Jamie Gorelick wasn’t up there just for show and to do a nice little whitewashing [...]

When Science is Blind

Posted: 29 Dec 2009 05:06 PM PST

Instapundit linked to a fascinating article in Wired Magazine on success, mistakes, and how we pursue the answers to questions that vex us. The author, Jonah Lehrer, did a very good job of telling a couple entertaining stories, beginning with the tale of the two men who won the 1978 Nobel Prize for Physics and [...]

Politicization? We’re Soaking In It!

Posted: 29 Dec 2009 11:05 AM PST

It’s becoming increasingly more difficult to see Eric Holder’s Justice Department as anything but a purely political entity, not at all interested in applying the law equally. I hate thinking that but how else am I supposed to interpret what the DOJ has done with the case of the New Black Panthers? You might remember that [...]

Selasa, 29 Desember 2009

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Finally, The First Duffer Is Dragged to the Mike to Inform America He’ll Deal With “Alleged” Terrorism. Or Something.
Not All Failure is Bad Failure
Maybe the Senator Was Just Tired From Carrying Heavy Bribes.
Maybe We’ll Be Better off With Yemenis if We Stop Backing the Arab Despots?

Finally, The First Duffer Is Dragged to the Mike to Inform America He’ll Deal With “Alleged” Terrorism. Or Something.

Posted: 28 Dec 2009 06:32 PM PST

I didn’t get to hear President Obama’s reluctant statement on the SpeedoBomber, but I read it here (via memeorandum) and I entirely agree with Dan Riehl. You’d be hard-pressed to find a more uninspired, bored, “Oh God how fast can I read this so I can go back outside and play” statement from this President [...]

Not All Failure is Bad Failure

Posted: 28 Dec 2009 01:02 PM PST

Posts like this are a big reason I like Duane Lester. Last year he set seven goals for himself and his blog. Now, at year’s end, he reviewed those goals and found that he had met only one (and that one, to be a paid published writer, didn’t last very long). You’d be tempted to [...]

Maybe the Senator Was Just Tired From Carrying Heavy Bribes.

Posted: 28 Dec 2009 11:15 AM PST

I saw this video of Max Baucus doing his best impression of Arthur over the weekend and wanted to wait a day or so on it before I said anything. It’s quite possible that I was looking at Baucus’ blathering screed through partisan eyes and I wanted to take a little time to cool down, [...]

Maybe We’ll Be Better off With Yemenis if We Stop Backing the Arab Despots?

Posted: 28 Dec 2009 09:54 AM PST

On Christmas Day I wrote about the President’s apparent “catch, release, and explode” policy toward Islamists operating out of Yemen. Clearly I meant it as a joke, but after reading a couple articles today, I’m thinking it’s not all that funny. The New York Times revealed today (via memeorandum) that the Bush administration started ramping up special forces [...]

Senin, 28 Desember 2009

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Napolitano Fiddles While Obama Sunburns
The Year of the Disappearing Narrative.
Don’t Worry, Folks. We’ve Outsourced Homeland Security to the Dutch.
The White House Wishes Us All A Mao-rry Christmas!

Napolitano Fiddles While Obama Sunburns

Posted: 28 Dec 2009 08:23 AM PST

Remember how yesterday Janet Napolitano said that our airline security system worked because the city of Detroit wasn’t pummeled by the flaming wreckage of a jet airplane? Well, she’s changed her mind (via Jonah Goldberg). The new story isn’t “the system worked” but “the system did not work in this instance”. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano [...]

The Year of the Disappearing Narrative.

Posted: 27 Dec 2009 09:05 PM PST

How have the narratives failed in 2009? Let The Rhetorician count the ways. Ed Driscoll suggests there are likely a few more. I can think of one more. Whatever happened to that whole “most honest, most open, and most ethical Congress in history” narrative? It seems to have disappeared as quickly as ethics investigations against various [...]

Don’t Worry, Folks. We’ve Outsourced Homeland Security to the Dutch.

Posted: 27 Dec 2009 07:20 PM PST

By now I’m sure you’ve heard that an Islamist, acting on orders from al-Qaeda in Yemen, tried to blow an airplane over Detroit. He was unsuccessful because 1) al-Qaeda shops for its bomb-detonation instructions out of Wile. E. Coyote’s ACME catalog, and 2) a Dutch filmmaker pounced on him and gave him a good pummeling. [...]

The White House Wishes Us All A Mao-rry Christmas!

Posted: 27 Dec 2009 02:39 PM PST

Let’s play a little “what if” game this evening. What if George W. Bush had commissioned an outré artist to do some holiday decorating at the White House and that artist had hung an Augusto Pinochet ornament? You know the answer to that, of course. The ornament would have come off the tree in a hot second [...]