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That’s “Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy.” Good idea!
Archive for October, 2009
October 24th, 2009
Category: Wayward press
… and when Mickey Kaus and I agree about something. But he’s right when he says Fox News isn’t a news organization.
October 24th, 2009
Category: Crime Control
‘Lexington” in The Economist has good things to say about HOPE and High Point. But why does he think of them as “soft”?
October 24th, 2009
Category: Uncategorized
… is one of the Ten Commandments. The Southern Baptist Convention and the Catholic League seem not to have noticed that.
October 23rd, 2009
Category: Uncategorized
Is Fox ‘News’ a journalism enterprise? If you call a dog’s tail a leg, how many legs does it have? Four: calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it one. or Is a barnacle a ship? (HT: Walt Kelly)
October 22nd, 2009
Category: Health Care
There are 60 votes for cloture on any bill that comes out of conference. And Reid and Pelosi pick the conferees. Looks to me like game, set, and match.
October 21st, 2009
The Pentagon’s excuse for opposing Al Franken’s anti-rape amendment doesn’t pass the laugh test.
October 21st, 2009
Category: Health Care
The health insurers may lose their anti-trust exemption. Treachery has a price.