Tuesday, April 29, 2014

TEA PARTY PACs spend most of their cash on themselves.

This based on this Washington Post article. Somehow I don't think it would be 'news' if the Post were to do a similar analysis on Democrat Party PACs.
STEVEN F. HAYWARD: Conservatism and Climate Science.

Linked from his PowerLine post.
CRIME: High Schoolers’ Gun Battle Lands Them in Deep Trouble With Police, Administration.

If these lunatics had held sway when I was growing up, I'd have never graduated from elementary school.
MONOWHEELS: The coolest deathtrap on one wheel.



Linked from Instapundit.
OBAMA'S ALOOFNESS hits new height on budget and sparks Hill anger:
In other administrations, the president and his team have met with members of the budget committees, authorizing committees and appropriators to discuss priorities. That, said the sources, hasn’t happened in years, and now some are considering retaliating with blunt spending cuts on the president’s agenda.
Even (especially?) Democrats are unhappy.
IS IT TIME for impeachment proceedings? Yes, but for political reasons, it won't happen.
COMEDY CENTRAL: the Democrat campaigns in Texas.
CONGRATULATIONS, you got insurance through ObamaCare. Will you be able to afford it next year?
THE LEFT is black, brown, yellow, red, and every other color of the rainbow -- but not at the top.
TOYOTA BAILING OUT ON CALIFORNIA ... to guess where?

"Toyota Motor Corp. plans to move large numbers of jobs from its sales and marketing headquarters in Torrance to suburban Dallas, according to a person familiar with the automaker’s plans.

"The automaker won’t be the first big company Texas has poached from California.

"Occidental Petroleum Corp. said in February that it was relocating from Los Angeles to Houston, making it one of around 60 companies that have moved to Texas since July 2012, according to Texas Gov. Rick Perry."
JIM GERAGHTY on Those Guys (of which, unfortunately, I'm only a hanger-on).
"SINCE 2012, after President Barack Obama declared the government-fostered recession had ended, the average age of actual retirement has climbed from 60 to 62...."

Alan Grayson's 'die early' campaign seems to be working....
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON on Cliven Bundy, racism, politics, and history.

Separating the wheat from the chaff.
THOMAS PIKETTY wants income equality --- and the hell with growth.

Translation: everyone deserves an equal share of nothing.
INSIGHT INTO THE NANNY'S MIND: if it's not regulated, it's not happening.

We're not to the "if it isn't mandatory, it's proscribed" government mindset yet, but we're closing fast.
'QUIET BOOMS': are overland supersonic flights in the future?
'SMART' DIPLOMACY: "I think they gave him [Kerry] this job so Hillary’s tenure would look good by comparison, but for the first time in his life he’s over-performing."
VICTORY GIRLS: Sarah Palin’s NRA “Stand and Fight” Rally.
HEY, DEMOCRATS: check your donor lists.
HEH: Time columnist Joe Klein calls Fox ‘only option’ for straight news at 6 p.m.

Some liberals can think.
WASHINGTON POST: Sarah Palin soldiers on as a diminished figure in the Republican Party.

I think they're underestimating both Palin and the Tea Party. So much better for us.
BILL KRISTOL: The Closing of the Academic Mind. It's not just closed, it's been welded shut.