Tech at Night: Google back on the Net Neutrality train. Anonymous declares war on Israel.

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  November 18th at 04:00 AM  | 

Hey everyone. Sorry for not doing this Friday night. I was a bit out of it. So, we’re doing this Saturday night.

Some people just don’t learn, though. Google is still defending Net Neutrality incredibly enough. So are Facebook and Netflix, by the way (shameless plug for Amazon Prime streaming alternative).

Of course, there’s a problem here: Google’s PAC splits evenly D/R in donations, but The people of Google lean so far left they gave $737k to Obama, versus $31k to Romney. Think about that. Mo wonder they’re still trying to feed a beast of regulation that may try to break it up.

If anything does in Bay area innovators, it’ll be their slavish devotion to big-government Democrats.

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As Union Bosses Spin Twinkies’ Demise, Bakers’ Union Boss Admits Union Knew Hostess Would Die

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  November 17th at 06:00 PM  | 

With the demise of 18,000 jobs weighing on their shoulders (though certainly not their consciousness’) and just in time for the Sunday morning talk shows union bosses are now trying desperately to point fingers at the victim (and Mitt Romney) for the union’s strike that ultimately destroyed Hostess and its 18,000 jobs. This blame game is going on despite the fact that the bakers’ union | Read More »

My quick handicapping of Democratic at-risk Senate races in 2014.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  November 17th at 10:28 AM  | 

Since Glenn Reynolds asked, here’s my current assessment of at-risk Democratic Senators in 2014*. Bear in mind: while I generally got the House right in 2010 and 2012, I overestimated our Senate performance by a couple of seats in both years and of course got the 2008 and 2012 Presidential elections wrong. So, you know, grain of salt and all of that. Alaska Mark Begich | Read More »

A Eulogy: The Sad Day A Ding Dong Union Killed Twinkie The Kid

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  November 16th at 04:00 PM  | 

The events of this past week have Sno Balled rather quickly and Suzie Q is still in a state of shock. Teamsters are calling the striking bakery union a bunch of Ding Dongs and Ho Ho’s. Yes, it’s true. The great Twinkie is dead. And, it’s no Wonder. Like so many before it, Twinkie the kid has been killed off by a union strike.

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Nancy Pelosi comes out strongly for… limiting federal court jurisdiction over the states?

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  November 16th at 02:30 PM  | 

No, really: when asked a question about the debt ceiling/so-called “fiscal cliff” today Nancy Pelosi decided to respond by talking about how she was on the side of the Eleventh Amendment.  For those of you who need reminding, that’s the one that limits the ability of federal courts to permit private citizens in one state from suing other states as a whole (they can still | Read More »

Obama’s EPA Continues Handouts for Rich Ethanol Farmers on the Backs of Consumers

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  November 16th at 01:32 PM  | 

Nothing exemplifies the failure of Republicans to communicate more than the exit polling data regarding the public’s perception of the cost of living.  A whopping 37% of voters selected ‘rising prices’ as their most important issue in the election, yet amazingly, they split their votes evenly between Romney and Obama.  Hence, the arsonist behind the high prices for food, fuel, healthcare, and every other vital | Read More »

An open letter to conservatives

By: Morton C. Blackwell (Diary)  |  November 16th at 11:22 AM  | 

I had a very exciting time at the Republican National Convention.  My conservative allies and I all worked very hard in the presidential election. When I woke up the day after the election, everything I had worked for appeared to be in ruins.  An extreme leftist had been reelected president of the United States. Some liberal Republicans immediately began to blame newly activated conservatives for | Read More »

Sometimes, It Really Is Different This Time – A Polling Post-Mortem (Part III of III)

By: Dan McLaughlin (Diary)  |  November 16th at 10:52 AM  | 

This is the third and final part of my three-part polling post-mortem. Part I here looks at the national and state polls, and Part II at the likely voter screens and the electorate. V. Polls vs. Non-Poll Tools One of my premises in reviewing projections of turnout was that other items of information besides the polls were worth reviewing. Many of these same indicators favoring | Read More »

As Twinkies Die, BLS Finds a Sharp Rise in Post-Election Jobless Claims

By: Brad Jackson (Diary)  |  November 16th at 10:00 AM  | 

On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson is joined by Francis Cianfrocca to discuss the closing of Hostess Brands because of a moronic union strike, a plan by Denny’s to hike prices to pay for Obamacare and a surprisingly sharp rise in jobless claims in the week after the election.

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Will GOP Governors Save us From Obamacare?

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  November 16th at 06:47 AM  | 

We all understand that elections have consequences and that there are certain issues which are ceded with an electoral loss.  Obamacare is not one of them. If Obamacare is allowed to survive, then our Constitution has no meaning and our Republic is finished.  It will engender a takeover of 1/6 of our economy, create permanent dependency, induce unsustainable inflationary pressure on the cost of healthcare | Read More »

Deadline passes on Hostess strike ultimatum: is liquidiation likely?

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  November 15th at 11:34 PM  | 

Very possibly.  Background here and here: the short version is that Hostess Foods is in horrible financial shape; it’s in the process of trying to stave off bankruptcy via drastically renegotiated emergency union contracts with the Teamsters and bakers’ unions; the Teamsters took a look at the books, blanched, swallowed hard, and took the deal; the bakers’ unions did not, and decided to go on | Read More »

NLRB To Force Companies To Turn Over Employee Telephone Numbers & E-Mails To Unions?

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  November 15th at 08:30 PM  | 

As is often said, just as when any other salesperson doing door-to-door sales knocks at the door, targeted employees can invite the union organizers into their homes, or they can sic the chihuahua on them.

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Presidential Politics Does Not Define Conservatism

By: Kevin Holtsberry (Diary)  |  November 15th at 05:20 PM  | 

The conservative movement is a complex coalition of people and ideas that seek to impact popular culture, public policy and electoral politics based on its ideals and principles. To take something this complex and diverse and equate it with an election at the highest possible level is to both over-simplify and devalue it.

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Obama’s I won, let’s compromise and do things my way post-election press conference

By: Dan Spencer (Diary)  |  November 15th at 03:03 PM  | 

On Tuesday, President Obama held the 16th “full” White House press conference of his presidency. That’s right Obama goes golfing more than six times for every press conference he gives.

This was the first scheduled, solo news conference for Obama since March. The last time Obama saw fit to allow the White House press corps an opportunity to formally ask him questions on U.S. soil was his “hastily-announced” appearance in the White House briefing room on June 8, 2012, during which he infamously said “the private sector is doing fine.”

During today’s press conference Obama was asked about climate change, Gen. David Petraeus, the fiscal cliff, immigration reform, Iran, A mandate, U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice, Gov. Mitt Romney and Syria.

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New Foreign Policy

By: Breeanne Howe (Diary)  |  November 15th at 02:00 PM  | 

Now that Obama has won reelection, news of how he plans to run his new administration has been springing forth fast and furiously.  Despite alluding to a time of peace in his reelection speech last week, the latest on foreign policy going forward indicates otherwise.  Like so many other issues, the new foreign policy agenda would have been nice to know before the election.  According | Read More »