The Ramble for 10/24/11

Sloatsburg, NY— I’m at the Thruway Rest area just north of the NY-NJ border. From here I’ll head to Connecticut, and then back here to Jersey, and then to Western NY. Getting cooler by the day, and we’ll see rain

Latham, NY– I’m outside Albany, getting a load for Watertown, NY.

This week has been a series of hops that saw me running to within about 10 miles of the DC monument district. A little over an hour after I

Two takes on Dumbo’s presser, first the literate, from Yuval Levin, National Review:

It all had the feel of a childish tantrum by a person who desperately wishes he were living in a different reality — one in

Obami give birth to the deathers, Andrew Malcolm professes to be confused why so much of the public refuses to accept the Obama administration’s claim of the death of Usama bin Laden at face value, from the Los Angeles

Mountaintop, PA– I’m here at the Quaker Oats facility in Mountaintop.  After weeks of rain, we’ve got some serious sunshine, and it’s a welcome thing. We’ll see middle 60’s around here today. I’ll be in New Jersey, tonight.

Got the

The Great Lady on the passing of the cows, from Phyllis Schlafly, Townhall:

Another contemporary feminist, professor and author Linda Hirshman, set forth a popular definition in the Daily Beast. She wrote that “support for abortion rights and

Coherence from Cohen, some sobering questions from Richard Cohen no Egypt, from the Washington Post:

Egypt’s problems are immense. It has a population it cannot support, a standard of living that is stagnant and a self-image as leader

Turds of Wisdom, from Karl Rove, Wall Street Journal:

But a scorched-earth policy doesn’t make sense for the Obama White House. Independents voted Republican last month by a 59% to 38% margin not because they thought Mr. Obama

Flock Fairness, from Jay Eisenhofer and Richard Schiffrinm, AOL News:

(Dec. 16) — With President Barack Obama facing an outpouring of criticism from his party base following the tax-and-spending deal cut with congressional Republicans, it is time for

In a Pajamas Media article I wrote just after Obama was deified:

Indeed, it is Obama who apparently is doing the most in terms of recognizing (the far left’s bleeding anti-Bush vitriol notwithstanding) that Mr. Bush didn’t do that bad

I blogged yesterday:

Consider this closely, now;  The Democrats have had an overwhelming majority in both houses of Congress, and had the White House as well.  Yet, they claim that one of the reasons for their slow “progress” to the

Well, we are as of this writing, mere days away from the mid-term elections… which by all acounts, even among Democratic pollsters, isn’t going to go down well for the Democrat party. The only question, seemingly, is just how much

Professor Thomas Sowell – 1, Dumbo – 0, Obamcare meets Basic Economics, loses, Patteico’s Pontifications:

So what do you think might happen if you sought to make health insurance more widely available for children — by simply mandating

FDR brought  Americans the New Deal.

HST gave us:The Square Deal

FDR: The New Deal

JFK:   The New Frontier

LBJ: The Great Society

Barack Hussien Obama: The New Reality?

Hat tip:  Tim Williams and Jim Geraghty, Campaign Spot.

Source

The Labor Department reported this morning that nonfarm payrolls fell by 131,000 in the month of July.  Even more discouraging was that June’s revised payroll number was revised downward to a negative 221,000.  This is huge.  Initial jobless claims estimates