I’d like to note for the record that RedState, like Jim Geraghty, was making encouraging sounds about the Bobby Schilling / Phil Hare race well before the recent (commissioned) poll that shows Schilling leading the incumbent 45/32. Phil Hare, of course, is yet another Democrat who feels entitled to his seat, despite his lack of a knowledge of even the basics of American constitutional theory: we did an interview with Bobby where he let us know that this wasn’t the first time that Hare had demonstrated his ignorance for a weary world, either. Continue reading Nobody loves Phil Hare (D, IL-17).
#rsrh QotD, Journolist edition.
Doctor Zero:, on the DC Caller’s Journolist/Rev. Wright/”Hey, let’s call random people racists to shut them up!” brouhaha:
“One day, Spencer Ackerman will walk into a bar where Fred Barnes is having a drink. A tumbleweed will roll by outside.”
Oh, man, I would pay money to see that.
#rsrh Wrong question on the WaPo’s Black Panther problem.
[Odd: this should have published two days ago.]
(Via Hot Air Headlines) The question is not, actually, “What took them so long?” We know the answer already: the WaPo thought that they could make the voter intimidation story go away by ignoring it. No, the question is, “Now that they’ve admitted that the story isn’t going away, why isn’t the below on the front page?”
The story has its origins on Election Day in 2008, when two members of the New Black Panther Party stood in front of a Philadelphia polling place. YouTube video of the men, now viewed nearly 1.5 million times, shows both wearing paramilitary clothing. One carried a nightstick.
Early last year, just before the Bush administration left office, the Justice Department filed a voter-intimidation lawsuit against the men, the New Black Panther Party and its chairman. But several months later, with the government poised to win by default because the defendants didn’t contest the suit, the Obama Justice Department decided the case was over-charged and narrowed it to the man with the nightstick. It secured only a narrow injunction forbidding him from displaying a weapon within 100 feet of Philadelphia polling places through 2012.
Actually, we know the answer to that, too: The WaPo still wants the story to go away. They figure that they can point to the Ombudsman and claim that they’ve addressed their inability to tell people, you know, the news.
Moe Lane
PS: It’s actually at least as important a story as, I don’t know, Bob McDonnell’s college thesis. Excuse me: GOVERNOR Bob McDonnell’s college thesis.
Unicorn: The Other Whi… CEASE AND DESIST! CEASE AND DESIST!
How in God’s name did I miss this?
MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, June 21, 2010 – Geeknet, Inc. (NASDAQ: LNUX), the online network for the global geek community, announces its public apology to the National Pork Board for unintended confusion surrounding unicorn meat versus pork.
Recently, the National Pork Board issued a “cease and desist” warning to ThinkGeek, a Geeknet company and the premier retailer for the global geek community, regarding its April 1 product launch of canned unicorn meat, which can be seen at http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/looflirpa/.
“It was never our intention to cause a national crisis and misguide American citizens regarding the differences between the pig and the unicorn,” said Scott Kauffman, President and CEO of Geeknet. “In fact, ThinkGeek’s canned unicorn meat is sparkly, a bit red, and not approved by any government entity.”
I need to not get out of the house more, clearly.
#rsrh Journolist: “SOMEONE LEAKED!”
This is probably not going to be a good week for people affiliated with the Journolist.
Not that I have confirmation of that, by the way. Although if somebody would happen to have the archives, I wouldn’t mind seeing, oh, any random details about what those guys were saying about RedState (I sincerely doubt that I was ever personally subject to their ire, more’s the pity).
Unpacking the Berwick Surprise.
[UPDATE]: Ben Domenech over at the New Ledger calls this a “formality.”
Roll Call reports:
President Barack Obama sent the Senate his nomination of Donald Berwick as administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Monday — a move that comes two weeks after Obama bypassed Congress to put his stalled nominee in the post until the end of 2011.
Via Senatus: background here; and Allahpundit over at Hot Air reports that he’s “honestly shocked.” It is somewhat shocking; you don’t usually see an administration so openly caving in public. Continue reading Unpacking the Berwick Surprise.
“Viva Las Vegas.”
How about some more Elvis?
Well, there’s going to be some more Elvis, so deal.
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I got nothing, sorry.
There have been a lot of all-politics, all the time days lately; not really surprising, because we’re heading to the home stretch of the 2010 election cycle. It’s funny, actually. Most normal people will start tuning into the elections after Labor Day, and here I am almost burned out by them.
Anyway… I got nothing, sorry. Not much new stuff (discretionary budget has been meager lately) to geek out about, movies ditto, I can’t really make myself be interested in writing new amateur gaming material for RPG systems I suspect that I’ve been blacklisted from, and it’s bloody hot out. So here’s a Doc Savage
No, not because of the shirt.
Meet Mike Griffing.
CNA Head Goon?
[UPDATE]: Welcome, Instapundit readers.
As you recall, this guy was slapping at cameramen at a California Nurses Association (CNA) anti-Meg Whitman rally the other day. At least, this guy was until he came to the belated realization that he was getting filmed by two different people. Well, it turns out that he’s not a nurse. Or, at least, not just a nurse. Say hi to Mike Griffing. Continue reading Meet Mike Griffing.
Stimulus not even filling potholes.
If you’re like me and Ed Driscoll, you’re the sort who would think that if we were going to spend almost a trillion dollars that we don’t actually have on a ‘stimulus program’ then we’d at least spend it on infrastructure. Well, more accurately, you’re sort who hopes that we’d spend it on infrastructure, because if you’re like me and Ed Driscoll you’d be well aware that once the Beltway Establishment gets a hold of an idea it mutates into a horrific, expensive mess.
The Beltway Establishment got a hold of the idea.
Paved roads, historical emblems of American achievement, are being torn up across rural America and replaced with gravel or other rough surfaces as counties struggle with tight budgets and dwindling state and federal revenue. State money for local roads was cut in many places amid budget shortfalls.
In Michigan, at least 38 of the 83 counties have converted some asphalt roads to gravel in recent years. Last year, South Dakota turned at least 100 miles of asphalt road surfaces to gravel. Counties in Alabama and Pennsylvania have begun downgrading asphalt roads to cheaper chip-and-seal road, also known as “poor man’s pavement.” Some counties in Ohio are simply letting roads erode to gravel.