Optimism Watch: Instapundit/Israel/Obama edition.

    I like Glenn Reynolds, but I think that he’s wrong here about why the President is mucking about with Israel right now: I think Obama expects Israel to strike Iran, and wants to put distance between the United States and Israel in advance of that happening. (Perhaps he even thinks that treating Israel rudely will provoke such a response, saving him the trouble of doing | Read More »

    Depressed? DEPRESSED?

    Worried? Sure. Who wouldn’t be? Somewhere around 2 PM on January 20, 2009 what had previously been a fairly smooth and responsible conducting of the country’s business abruptly melted down. Since then the economy’s gone into a tailspin, everyone’s stopped pretending that post-partisanship is anything except a null statement, every two-bit dictator and strongman in the world is testing the limits of our forbearance, and | Read More »

    TCOT Report: Interesting new site.

    TCOT Report. Remember when I mentioned that this would be a great time to find a clearinghouse for the national Tea Parties? Well, even if that site doesn’t end up being that it’ll still probably link to whatever does become that clearinghouse.  It’s certainly gearing up to play with the shiny new online toys that we get to have now. Via Mark Tapscott (H/T: Instapundit), | Read More »

    Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) must now repair jobs-destroying mistake.

    You know, like you did here: …because you just realized that they actually do care when it comes to keeping their existing jobs, huh?

    “Remember, drinking buddies don’t let drinking buddies get marched off for mandatory sensitivity training.”

    It’s the last line of a good article on the decline of academic relationships inside the academy itself (via Ann Althouse, via Glenn Reynolds). The very short version? Professors and teachers in the same college don’t hang out any more, which makes them easy meat every time somebody with a chip on their shoulder decides to offer one of them up on the altar of | Read More »