Doing his best Babe Ruth imitation, Jimmie called his shot. Now it’s happened: Samantha Powers has resigned her position as advisor to the Obama campaign after calling Hillary Clinton a "monster" during an interview. Presumedly Obama was involved in the decision. I would have thought better of him if he’d taken the hit and told…
Month: March 2008
Caucuses and Monsters
Michigan reportedly will be holding a caucus in order to re-enfranchise the state’s Democratic voters. Hopefully Michigan Dems will come to their senses and hold a proper vote. Seems that Barack Obama has figured out exactly how to win caucuses. It ain’t pretty, but it is the Chicago way, and it’s bad news for Hillary…
No Right to Home School
Michelle Malkin has this story about a California court that has issued an outrageously harsh – and grotesquely incorrect – indictment against the practice of home-schooling. From the LA Times: "Parents do not have a constitutional right to home school their children," wrote Justice H. Walter Croskey in a Feb. 28 opinion signed by the…
Clinton Doing What She Had To
Hillary Clinton has been projected as the winner – by a comfortable margin – in the Democratic primary in Ohio and is also putting it to Obama in Texas, especially among recently-decided voters. Currently her margin in Ohio is 14% with 73% of the precincts reporting. While there have been some irregularities in the vote…
Huckabee to Drop Out
Mike Huckabee’s spokesman has just told Fox News that he will be speaking within the hour and it is his intent to resign from the race for the Republican presidential nomination now that John McCain has all but won the nomination. More later. Huckabee’s resignation speech: "Ladies and gentlemen I called Senator McCain a few…
Women in the Media
Two recent articles about the way women work and are portrayed in the media caught my attention. The contrast deserves an eye, I think. First, John Hawkins has a really interesting article up in which he interviews 5 female bloggers of conservative mind about their experiences working in Internet media. One common theme: Female bloggers…
Wikipedia’s Authority
ValleyWag, the National Enquirer of the tech industry press, outed Jimmy Wales, founder and driving force behind Wikipedia, over the weekend for using his position as head of the online encyclopedia to "encourage" editing of his lover’s profile in the site’s database. There are plenty of details about, no need to dwell on them here. …
Brownback on Broken American Families
Via the NY Times, former Republican presidential candidate Sam Brownback writes, briefly and brilliantly about the plight of the American family and our youth two generations removed from the free love revolution. Over the past five decades in the United States, the marriage rate has gone down and the divorce rate has gone up. In…
Houston Energy Summit Part II
Americans usually hear that energy-producing natural resources are in scarce supply. With regard to the current technological, regulatory, and economic context that is true. However, when industry experts discuss energy sources of the future they focus on which known resources to develop instead of whether they can find and produce more energy. One important question…
Houston Energy Summit, part 1
Energy industry leaders gathered in Houston yesterday to discuss the state of energy in the United States and the discussion immediately turned to economics. With regard to energy there is, according to John Hofmeister, CEO of Shell Oil, a fundamental law of human society that cannot be denied: the Law of Suppy and Demand. Gas…