The Desperation-of-Deprivation Myth
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on August 29th, 2011 4:31 am by HL
The Desperation-of-Deprivation Myth
Mark Steyn, National Review
Unlike many of my comrades in the punditry game, I don’t do a lot of TV. But I’m currently promoting my latest doom-mongering bestseller, so I’m spending more time than usual on the telly circuit. This week I was on the BBC’s current-affairs flagship Newsnight. My moment in the spotlight followed a report on the recent riots in English cities, in the course of which an undercover reporter interviewed various rioters from Manchester who’d had a grand old time setting their city ablaze and then expressed no remorse over it.
‘Mini-Stagflation’: The Threat Bernanke Wrestles With
Jeff Cox, CNBC
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke used the word “inflation” exactly seven times in this Jackson Hole speech Friday.What he didn’t mention once was inflation’s ugly cousin and its baggage of not only rising prices but also higher unemployment.The prospect of stagflation, indeed, is raising a growing amount of hackles on Wall Street these days on worries that the jobless picture isn’t getting any better and the cost of living—the primary effect of inflation—is rising.
Let School Choice Prevail
George Will, Washington Post
The red stone outcropping that gives this community its name is just a facet of the histrionic geology of Douglas County that sprawls prettily along the front range of the Rockies south of Denver. The county is named, Lord knows why, for Stephen Douglas, who defeated Abraham Lincoln in Illinois' 1858 U.S. Senate election. Lincoln opposed Douglas's repugnant "popular sovereignty" plan for allowing territories to vote for or against accepting slavery. Today, Douglas County has an admirable plan for popular sovereignty in education "” school choice.
A Hurricane of Hype
Howard Kurtz, The Daily Beast
It was raining in Manhattan on Sunday morning, and the dogged correspondents in their brightly colored windbreakers were getting wet.But the apocalypse that cable television had been trumpeting had failed to materialize. And at 9 a.m., you could almost hear the air come out of the media's hot-air balloon of constant coverage when Hurricane Irene was downgraded to a tropical storm.
Can Romney Survive the Perry Surge?
Toby Harnden, The Telegraph
Mitt Romney has been running for president for nigh on six years. He finished third last time around but he continued on, hardly missing a beat.The “new” 2012 Romney is making an effort to appear more ordinary. He is almost never seen in a suit or tie, instead wearing chinos and Oxford shirts. His famously perfect hair is now slightly messed up. Gone is the presidential-style entourage of 2008. Now he travels in a single Chevy Suburban.