As those of you who have televisions or Twitters probably know, there’s an armed hostage situation at Discovery Channel headquarters in Silver Spring, Md., just across the line from Washington, D.C. Initial reports, which police officials are not confirming, are that the hostage taker is a 42-year-old San Diego resident named James Jay Lee, who has apparently thrown up 11 demands online, in a warped environmentalist manifesto that radiates with rage against the “human filth” of population
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Malthusian Hostage-Taker at Discovery Channel
Yesterday, the Guardian ran a puzzling article claiming that Bjorn Lomborg, the self-described Skeptical Environmentalist, has now accepted that man-made global warming is a problem. The subtext being that if this prominent climate change skeptic has come over to the side of alarmism, then surely everyone else must too. The Guardian (a newspaper that is always careful to make sure the facts never get in the way of a good story) is misleading its readers.
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Skeptical Environmentalist – Still Skeptical of Carbon Rationing – Never Skeptical of Warming
Feeling glum about life, art, politicians, California, or all four? Then read this uplifting Wall Street Journal tale about what happens when bad art hits bad people in a badly named town.
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The Kook Abides
During his summer vacation, Barack Obama had an guesstimated $20,000 makeover done to the Oval Office in the White House (all paid for by donations). The attention-getter so far?
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The Five Quotes on the New Oval Office Rug
Last week, I wrote a piece for the Wall Street Journal on the quixotic campaign of Sam Meas, a Cambodian immigrant and survivor of the Killing Fields running for Congress in Massachusetts as a “Reagan Republican.” As I noted, Meas—who has limited money and political experience—will have a difficult time in getting beyond the September 14 Republican primary, which local election watchers predict will be handily won by Jon Golnik, a comparatively well-funded, moderate Republican whose staff includes veterans of the Scott Brown campaign. Various members of the Massachusetts Republican establishment explained that while Meas’s story was compelling, he didn’t have a snowball’s chance in hell against Golnik
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Flinging Mud in MA-5: The Incumbent, AC/DC, and the Candidate with the Shamrock Tattoo
On Aug. 27, I talked to our friendly neighborhood Russkies about stadium welfare for lying billioniare baseball owners. Approximately 5.58322 minutes
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Reason Writers on TV: Matt Welch Talks Stadium Swindleage on Russia Today
Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty, who may or may not ( wink, nudge, wink ) be running for the GOP presidential nomination in 2012, is telling state agencies not to go after any of the new discretionary federal health care funds created by the PPACA . Republican Gov.
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ObamaCare Cash? Tim Pawlenty Says “No Thanks”
I’ve long been an advocate for dining on kangaroo. Not just because Greenpeace endorses the ‘roo as a low-emissions option—if anything, that made me slightly more wary .
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NYC Kangaroo Dinners Now Legal, Delicious
In the Wall Street Journal , economist Robert Barro makes the case against the 99-week extension for unemployment payouts: In the past, this change entailed extensions to perhaps 39 weeks of eligibility from 26 weeks, though sometimes a bit more and typically conditioned on the employment situation in a person’s state of residence. However, we have never experienced anything close to the blanket extension of eligibility to nearly two years
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Jobs Are So 2009
Two weeks ago, Politico broke the news that a major coalition of liberal supporters of the health care overhaul was telling activists not to mention deficit or cost reductions when attempting to sell people on the bill. Now, Politico reports , another major liberal health care activist group, Health Care for America Now, has an even better strategy for helping out the politicians who voted for the bill: Maybe just avoid talking about the law entirely! The progressive coalition Health Care for America Now fought hard to pass health care reform.
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Maybe If We Just Avoid Talking About ObamaCare, People Will Like It
