I’d like to ask something very simple. Everyone knows unemployment in most sectors of the economy is rising. What about higher education? Is anyone in higher education losing their job because of the economic downturn? I’m talking about professors, not the rank and file. On the Chronicle of Higher Education website, it looks like academia is hiring: 1992 faculty positions, 802 administrative positions, 126 executive | Read More »
When Mr. Eastwood (I call him Clint, but that’s strictly when we’re talking in private about our gun collections) rang me up in my impeccably-maintaned working-class suburban home (in a neighborhood that’s been ‘invaded’ by generic asian immigrants, natch) to tell me about the lead character he plays in his latest movie — Walt Kowalski — I was flattered, of course. Flattered and honored, and | Read More »
Bloomberg is reporting that “the person” is not just “gniklat” about the Big Three “tuoliab” but they don’t want to be “deiftinedi” because they’re “nosrepehT” who is guaranteed “ytimynona.” <blockquote>Many solutions to the automakers’ financial problems are on the table in discussions in Washington and around the country among company officials, lenders, union officials and other interested parties, the person briefed on internal talks said. | Read More »
Well, it looks like nobody’s talking, at least anyone who has any authority to talk about whether the 60+ police stationed in Mumbai at the Victoria Terminus had any ammunition to put in their WWI-vintage rifles and shoot back at two people who murdered at least ten innocents in cold blood and wounded scores more. I didn’t expect there would be much of a revelation, | Read More »
Skanderbeg and I have been having a brief discussion in RedHot and because the question he asked was so interesting, I thought I’d make it into a diary for further commentary. Here are the links: “Veering Sharply” “Re: Veering Sharply” “Re: Re: Veering” Some additional information has come in. Over the past few days there have been conflicting reports about the police presence at Victoria | Read More »
Skanderbeg, I’ve been reading a lot of explanations for why the train station police might have held their fire. The “armchair debriefings” I’ve read have discussed various theories ranging from the plausible to the pathetic, but all of them have assumed the police were in fact carrying loaded weapons — until this one. The explanations I’ve read are sometimes more, sometimes less charitable concerning the | Read More »
One of the astonishing things about the massacre in Mumbai is that the sole terrorist survivor (the baby-faced guy from the train station) should have been stopped a long time before he could be captured and made a consumer of the Indian health care and legal system. However, the police in the train station didn’t shoot back at him. Instead they ran the other way | Read More »
I’m sorry, but this was the most jarring sentence I’ve read in the past few days, taken completely by itself: Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal says he has “full confidence” in Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit and believes the bank’s financial problems will resolve themselves with time. Well, I’m sooooooo glad that Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal has complete confidence in Vikram Pandit now that the | Read More »
In the world of business, there are some people who still understand what the lasting and deleterious effects of ideologically-driven social policies have been on companies across America and its competitiveness in general: The problem goes back to decisions made in the ’70s by the U.S. government, which was trying to put a Band-Aid on a discrimination problem. As a result, human resources, initially designed | Read More »
Sure, we’re becoming a Socialist country faster than you can say “bailout” — but at least we’ll have 3-D NFL Football! With sports fans still getting used to their high-definition television sets, the National Football League is already thinking ahead to the next potential upgrade: 3-D. Of course, you won’t be able to sit at home and watch the games live — you’ll have to | Read More »
[Update: Yes, I was aware of Gail Collins' editorial well before I wrote this. I read Collins' editorial almost at the instant it hit the Times' website, and there have been others. It's a pretty big buzz. Pajamas Media picked up on it seven hours ago, which means that the actual emails broaching the subject among liberal newspaper editors went out some time in the | Read More »
According to the NRA-ILA, Obama’s odds-on favorite for AG is an anti-2nd Amendment As Individual Right cosignatory with Janet Reno during the D.C. vs. Heller case. In other words, a gun grabber. Media reports say President-elect Barack Obama has selected Eric Holder as his Attorney General, and that Holder may already have accepted the offer. Holder, as Deputy Attorney General under Janet Reno during the | Read More »
Even though the spam problem is real, I have to say that the idea of Chinese microchips with an embedded kill switch somehow doesn’t jibe. It’s endlessly ironic that the two eServers that were brought to their knees today were once top-of-the-line IBM symmetric multiprocessing boxes manufactured….in CHINA. Oh, Dear.
Well, I don’t know about the CCChiP problem, but I can say that since the shutdown of McColo on or about November 12, my spam has decreased…but only in my Google Gmail inbox. On the other hand, it has DRASTICALLY INCREASED in terms of the spam floods on my SMTP and POP servers. To the point that it basically shut down the email servers at | Read More »
Apart from noting that Robert Samuelson’s plans to gradually raise gas taxes on the American people like they were frogs placed in a gradually warming pot of water sound a lot like what Scientific American wrote back in November of 2005, I have little substantive to add to Redstate today in terms of policy. Therefore it’s time for something completely different. This thread is dedicated | Read More »
Very briefly, Josh Painter has a front-pager about Robert Samuelson’s recommendation for keeping gas prices permanently high regardless of supply and demand. Samuelson’s ideas aren’t new, by any means. I’m sure people can find even older examples in the historical record, but the most recent recapitulation of Samuelson’s prescription can be found in the November, 2005 issue of Scientific American: Running On Empty In fact, | Read More »
Tonight I want to revisit a post from Drudge a few days ago that talked about Hyperion’s small nuclear reactors. The time has come for this idea, and the engineering has been known for years. There are only three realistic paths toward power independence in the United States over the long term: nuclear fission, thermonuclear fusion, and exoatmospheric solar. I’ve repeated that so many times | Read More »
Obama ran for President on a nebulous campaign of “Hope and Change” that was short on policy positions (and still is now) and later actually had a whole host of them redacted from his website. But for people thinking about becoming members of his Administration, the questions are quite specific. Tell Us Everything. Doesn’t Obama have any faith at all in the people who might | Read More »
Call it Schadenfreude, call it social justice, call it the result of a boneheaded and starry-eyed business model. Call it CurrentTV, the highly unconventional “democracy based” Birkenstock and patchouli, user-participatory circus pioneered by AlGore, which is now laying off a bunch of people. At least some of whom are Twittering about it. CurrentTV has found that nobody really wants to watch strictly amateur-hour television, made | Read More »
Pejman has a front-pager right now saying that he doesn’t support the government loaning any money to the automobile industry because it might open the floodgates for other industries similarly situated to argue their critical importance to the “lender of last resort.” I think for balance we should ask Pat Cleary or his contemporary counterpart at the National Association of Manufacturers for their reasonsing, to | Read More »
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