Tuesday, March 11, 2014

SINK SANK: Republican David Jolly narrowly defeats Democrat Alex Sink in Florida special election. ObamaFail?
CLIMATE CHANGE: Is there nothing it can't do?
Genghis Khan owes his place in history to a sudden shift in the Asiatic climate from the cold, arid period that immediately preceded his ascent as leader of the Mongol empire, to the warmer, wetter weather that allowed his horsemen to expand out from Central Asia.
Well, I think we can safely attribute the election of Barack Obama to 'global warming'.
DRUG MAKER REFUSES charity offer to pay for 7-year-old's lifesaving treatment. I just wonder what Chimerix's lobbying budget is annually. And their advertising budget....
THE WEEKLY STANDARD: Obama's Fantasy-Based Foreign Policy.
“THE WHOLE LAW – from its name to its effects – is one bad joke.” No, it's much worse than a bad joke.
'HELICOPTER' MONEY POLICY: Free money for everyone.
[W]hat conservatives really objected to about the Obama stimulus and all subsequent Democratic proposals for fiscal pump priming was not so much the fiscal consequences, despite what they said.... What really infuriates them about Democratic stimulus measures is that it is spending by government, meant to achieve government priorities, and delivered through government channels in ways that enhance the reach and influence of the government.

The helicopter money policy, by contrast, keeps government almost completely out of the picture. It distributes resources directly to citizens, with no limits on how they can spend it, thereby strengthening individual choice and the private sector, not government bureaucracies.
Hell, it'd work at least as well as anything the Obama administration has tried. And there's precedent for it -- read Heinlein's Beyond This Horizon (1942).
BUT THE CAR IS FREE if you sign a 10-year no-cancellation contract: ObamaCar replacement batteries cost $34,000 according to General Motors.
PANDAGON: Diminishing a man’s pride by holding a door open for him. What is it about academics in the social sciences? Particularly feminist academics? Do they take daily stupidity pills, or is native stupidity an entrance requirement?

In my world (the real one), men hold open doors for other men all the time. And we hold them open for ladies, too ... just not for feminists.
KEVIN D. WILLIAMSON: The tyrant in the gray flannel suit.

JEFF JACOBY: 'Six Californias' instead of one? I could go for that, but I'd only readmit four.

The remaining two (probably Silicon Valley and West California) I'd sell to the highest bidder in order to reduce our national deficit.