The Politics of Nutrition

April 1, 2010

[tweetmeme] The First Lady (they all do this) is on a public relations campaign to end obesity. Chef Jamie Oliver is committed to telling dullwitted Americans, and their pudgy, oafish children, that food makes them fat. Philly and New York City are considering soda taxes, which don’t do anything but raise money. The nutrition police […]

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Don Marron: America in the Red

April 1, 2010

“In his State of the Union address, President Obama asked the Congress to commit with him to ‘invest in our people without leaving them a mountain of debt.’ Four days later, he released his budget — which showed that, unless we change course, a huge mountain of debt is exactly what we can expect.”

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How Much Debt Til The Voters Say: Dangle?

April 1, 2010

Steven Malanga: “When you account for all of the shenanigans that governments pull with their debt, the real liabilities of state and local governments are probably twice as high as what public actuaries say they are. Would it matter to voters if they knew the real number?”

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Obama's Offshore Drilling Decision: More Good Than Bad

March 31, 2010

[tweetmeme] The announcement today that President Obama is opening more areas to offshore drilling is good news, and the allowance for Virginia’s drilling program is a big win for Gov. Bob McDonnell, who benefited from the fact that both of the Commonwealth’s Democrat Senators support off-shore drilling (as always, full disclosure: I have family members […]

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David Frum and California vs. Texas

March 30, 2010

David Frum weighs in with a rather odd perspective on California, Texas, and the state of the Republican Party. Essentially, Frum seems to be arguing that the ascendancy of Texas and the decline of California signify bad things for Republicans.

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Waxman Demands CEOs Disregard the Law

March 30, 2010

[tweetmeme] My latest at the Daily Caller talks about the ridiculous demands of Henry Waxman to the CEOs of Verizon, AT&T, and other companies that have dared to follow the law in their 8-K filings: If the CEOs’ statements or subsequent testimony conflict with internal memos or downplay risks to their companies that eventually come […]

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Life Among the Hippies: John Yoo in Berkeley

March 30, 2010

John Yoo: “‘I think of myself as being West Berlin during the Cold War, a shining beacon of capitalism and democracy surrounded by a sea of Marxism … a natural history museum of the 1960s,’ the Telegraph Avenue tableau of a graying, long-haired, pot-smoking counterculture stuck in the ideology’s half-century-old heyday.”

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In Defense of the Tea Party Idea

March 30, 2010

Myron Magnet quotes Madison: “the apportionment of taxes on the various descriptions of property is an act which seems to require the most exact impartiality, yet there is perhaps no legislative act in which greater opportunity and temptation are given to a predominant party to trample on the rules of justice.”

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A Storyline for Mitch

March 30, 2010

[tweetmeme] I have no horse in the 2012 stakes, but several smart bloggers are fans of Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels. Despite my skepticism about any candidate who doesn’t shine on HD — McCain was the last candidate from either party who’ll be able to win the nomination without that — I think one thing Daniels-fans […]

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Dozens Killed in Attacks on Moscow Subway

March 29, 2010

Two women attackers: “Suicide-bomb blasts that killed 38 people in two Moscow subway stations brought the specter of southern Russia’s Muslim insurgency back to the capital Monday, exposing flaws in what the Kremlin has often termed a successful anti-terrorist strategy.”

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