Friday, September 05, 2014

JUST AS SOON AS THE REPUBLICANS WIN THE SENATE: After years of bashing the filibuster, will Senate Democrats embrace it?
INSTAPUNDIT: "Watch for as many race-based and war-on-women headlines as the Dems can manage over the next couple of months. With everything imploding, they’ll have to do whatever they can, however sleazy, to boost turnout."
SURPRISE, SURPRISE: "Smart" Devices Make an Internet of Insecure Things. Think about that when you jump into your 'smart' robocar to go to the grocery store....
CARS THAT THINK: Smart Cars Would Save 420 Million Barrels of Oil Over 10 Years.

They will also encroach on your privacy, but for the government, that's not a bug, it's a feature.
SHOULDN'T WE BE MAKING IT HARDER FOR THEM TO COME BACK? President Obama will host a meeting in New York later this month (feel the urgency!) that will center on a proposal to make it more difficult for radicalized Muslims to travel to Syria and Iraq from the West to join up with the Islamic State.
EPA STRUGGLES to account for cross-state emissions reductions in power plant rule. Nuts. The rule is simple: if you import electricity (lookin' at you, California), then you export the equivalent carbon credits (or cash) to account for the pollution created in generating it. TANSTAAFL.
ONE CENTURY at a time.