Do you know what’s all the rage (not really) in the blogosphere this moment? Ed Morrissey throws up some article pipe dreaming about an “F-22 stimulus” spending, and in the comments a bunch of Lockheed engineers and DoD procurement people are really going at it about how many G’s the planes can do, etc. Of course this being the internet it has turned into a flame war between some pilot jocks. [Hot Air]
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Hottest Air
Thursday, February 5th, 2009Iraqi throws shoes at Bush
Sunday, December 14th, 2008He must be giving Bush the Saddam treatment. Little does he know that in America throwing shoes at someone is the highest sign of respect.
On conspiracies, real or not
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008McCain:
According to RedState’s Erick Erickson, the anti-Palin stories come from a pro-Romney cabal that hates the idea of Palin 2012. Erickson writes:
“At this moment, however, it is absolutely clear — there is an effort, organized or not, by supporters of Mitt Romney to harm the reputation of Governor Sarah Palin. [. . .] there are Romney supporters now working on John McCain’s campaign who are, in fact, indisputably out to damage Sarah Palin’s reputation. I am not just convinced of it. I know it to be fact.” [RedState]
Maybe these are the same people who are allegedly distributing their resumes in the private sector a week before the election. [Politico]
Earlier today RedState’s Directors denounced anyone and everyone on the right who collaborated against McCain-Palin through what they call “destructive criticism.” [RedState] Just hit the refresh button if RedState doesn’t load, as it tends to display an “Internal 500 server error” message or something like that.
Obama:
Slate reveals that it is in the tank for Obama (but is that really a surprise?). [Slate] The McCain campaign suspects the same is true for the Los Angeles Times and probably the entire press. [Politico] Anyways, the Smoking Gun website has a .gif that summarizes one of latest Obama stories, so here it is:
And of course CNN is in teh tanks too. [CNN]
The Battle of the Websters
Monday, October 13th, 2008Yale is going to celebrate the 250th birthday of Noah Webster. [CNN]
For the longest time I would often confuse Noah Webster with another promiment 19th century New Englander Daniel Webster, despite being well aware each Webster’s well-earned renoun. What I didn’t know was that Noah Webster studied at Yale. Of course, Rep. Webster is famously associated with Dartmouth for having represented his alma mater in Dartmouth College v. Woodward.
And not to be outdone, Harvard also has its own (ever so slightly less) famous Webster, Dr. John White Webster, professor of chemistry and geology, and an alumnus of the college. He murdered George Parkman, a leading Boston Brahmin, and hid the remaining parts in his laboratory, only to be exposed by the janitor. The trial, one of the earliest that took advantage of forensics (dental records), was a media spectable on the scale of O.J. Simpson. Webster was convicted and hanged, despite the protestations of the Boston elite who refused to give credence to the charges, and eventually PBS made a documentary about it all. [PBS]
CNN: Paris Hilton John McCain’s first choice for running mate
Monday, October 13th, 2008…or at least the caption on a photo says that Letterman said so. [CNN]
Apparently McCain has decided to make amends by doing his 10000th late-night comedy appearance with Letterman rather than Jon Stewart. Will McCain admit to having made a mistake in not choosing Hilton?
The only place in the world where you can get M3 numbers
Monday, October 6th, 2008Actually two. We’ll probably keep updating this post as we run across any websites that publish their own estimates of M3 (since the Feds don’t anymore):
You can find the official “statistics” (not including M3) here: http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h6/
Liveblogging Sarah Failin
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008Bailout, plus foreign policy bits
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008- Barack Obama, John McCain, and Joe Biden, along with the rest of the Senate except Ted Kennedy, were in town for the bailout vote this evening. The text of the Senate resolution, which was approved 74-25, can be found here.
- We don’t feel expert enough to opine at great length about the bailout at this moment; what we will report is that the biggest portion of the student population here at Harvard College, including the editorial staff of the Crimson, seems to be in favor. We note that this is totally expected.
- Various events in international politics are surely slipping past many people’s radars due to the current financial crisis:
- The Senate decided to take care of some other random business before the bailout vote (because figured that Barack and John Sidney couldn’t hightail it out of there before they cast their yea for that?), like passing some motion for the railroad safety bill (more random tidbit: Joe Biden didn’t vote on that motion) that got a boost from the recent L.A. train wreck, and the U.S.-India nuclear deal, which was ratified 86-13.
- Potentially, India is our new China. (but who are the new Henry Kissinger and Zhou Enlai?) Depending on how the bilateral relationship pans out over the years, this could end up as the-one-universally praised-accomplishment-by-an-otherwise-terrible-president, i.e., exactly how Nixon is remembered with regards to his China policy.
- On the other hand, North Korea was in the news again—Christopher Hill (who is now more famous in Korea than Coca Cola) is in Pyongyang trying to save the disarmament deal after the North Koreans started rebuilding their nuclear facilities.
The ghost of Strom Thurmond returns from beyond, filibusters Senate bill on financial bailout.
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008…and this time he doesn’t have to go pee.