As Obama Falters, Bill Maher’s Ugliness Escalates
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on July 23rd, 2011 4:31 am by HL
As Obama Falters, Bill Maher’s Ugliness Escalates
Andrew Klavan, CJ
Comedian-commentator Bill Maher has been getting a lot of attention lately for trying to get a lot of attention. He generally goes about this by using sexist hate speech against attractive, powerful, and intelligent conservative women like Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann, calling them female vulgarisms, for instance, or, as most recently, hosting comedians who fantasize aloud about sexually abusing them. Yet another attractive, powerful, and intelligent conservative woman (gee, there are a lot of those, aren’t there?), Ann Coulter, who is Maher’s friend, feels…
Iowa Deeply Unsettled as Straw Poll Nears
Scott Conroy, RealClearPolitics
By Scott Conroy – July 22, 2011DES MOINES, Iowa — Republican establishment types in the nation's first voting state quietly refer to it as The Doomsday Scenario. And it goes something like this:On a scorching, triple-digit Saturday in central Iowa next month, many of the casually attuned GOP caucus-goers who had planned to attend the Ames Straw Poll instead decide to stay home or make a beeline for the nearest air-conditioned movie theater.Meanwhile, throngs of the famously devoted supporters of Texas Rep. Ron Paul wipe the sweat off their brows without batting an eye and descend on the…
A New Epoch Beginning in the History of the Euro?
Why Obama Will Win in 2012
Jamelle Bouie, American Prospect
It's not hard to find signs that President Barack Obama is destined for a single term. Unemployment continues to hover at 9 percent, and a June poll from American Research Group says 39 percent of Americans disapprove of how he has handled the economy, which 71 percent of registered voters say will be “extremely or very important.” When asked whom they'd vote for in the 2012 presidential election, 47 percent said the “Republican Party's candidate for president,” as opposed to the 39 percent who would support Obama.Obama isn't the only incumbent to start…
Shaping the Electric Grid of the Future
Michael Wald, New York Times
Federal regulators laid down principles on Thursday for planning and paying for new power lines, part of a long-term policy effort to help the nation's electricity grid grow enough to meet the demands of renewable energy and a competitive electricity market.The rule, which has been in the works for several years, is intended to push the organizations that manage the grid into cooperating with one another, so that developers can build power lines across several states and multiple electrical jurisdictions.
