In Cold Blood, the sad thing about this story is that I don’t find it shocking. from Claire Berlinski:
Writing in Cold Blood About Itamar
We went yesterday to Itamar, the West Bank settlement where Udi and Ruth
The Audacity of a Dope, Jack Kelly explains the political phenomenon formerly attributed to one Barack Husien Obama, from RCP:
Mr. Obama’s campaign speeches consisted mostly of empty platitudes, which nevertheless were greeted with wild applause.
“Obama’s appeal comes
Scott Walker for President, from George Will, Journal Sentinel:
[Wisconsin Governor Scott] Walker’s calm comportment in this crisis is reminiscent of President Ronald Reagan’s during his 1981 stand against the illegal strike by air traffic controllers, and Margaret
The coming battle, from Melissa Maynard, Stateline:
Public sector unions have escaped a comparable decline in their ranks, with 36.2 percent of state and local employees still in unions. But an increasingly loud chorus of governors and state
Evan Thomas: “The health care bill is a disaster”, from Daily Caller.
“The health care bill is a disaster,” Thomas continued. “We’re sort of slowly learning – it’s not working. It’s interesting – they’re implementing it and it’s
The moral case for unions—protecting working families from exploitation—does not apply to public employment. Government employees today are among the most protected, well-paid employees in the country. Ironically, public-sector unions have become the exploiters, and working families once again need
It is the hostility stupid, Ed Morrissey discusses the increasing Jewish dissatisfaction with Dim Won, from Hot Air:
How badly has Barack Obama’s support eroded among Jewish voters over Israeli-US relations? Enough to send Rahm Emanuel to a
Obama dithered while the Gulf burned, a time line from Doug Ross:
Perhaps if the oil breached the Louisiana levees, then caught on fire, and then turned New Orleans into a Dresden-like inferno, the President would stop campaigning
Welcome, one and all, to the most intense nightly read anywhere on the Internet The BitsBlog Nightly Ramble.
- HEY… CSEA…. Glenn Reynolds suggests that public-sector unions should be illegal. I think he’s right. Danny Donahue, are you listening?
- NOT
There even feed up with public employee unions in New Jersey, from the Star-Ledger, Peoples Republic of New Jersey:
So it’s time to go nuclear. It’s time to rewrite the rules. It’s time for the showdown with [public employee]