Tunnel Wall: Aug 14, 2009

Friday, August 14, 2009

Afghan Governance

By Max Boot Commentary Magazine "I am mildly cheered by news that Ashraf Ghani, a respected technocrat who is also running against Karzai, may be offered a prime-minister-style position to run things on behalf of the aloof and somewhat disengaged president."

Will Electric Cars Crash The Grid?

IBD "The Chevy Volt is said to be able to get 230 miles per gallon. That's if it's continually plugged into a fragile and overburdened power grid. Where will you be when the lights go out?"

The debate over Israel: Left vs. Right

Israel and Obama’s America Watching America "More importantly, today, the state of the relationship between Israel and Barack Obama’s America is way more politically dangerous than the coalition’s internal problems. In fact, for the first time in over 18 years, Washington’s government has Israel’s government looking down the barrel." ---------------------------------------- Obama's America is not delivering the goods Haaretz "To hell with Obama. The settlers continue to move into more homes in East Jerusalem, Netanyahu is silent and Israelis sense that the "danger" has passed. Israel is once again permitted to do as it pleases. The landlord has once again gone insane. Except that the landlord has gone insane because the real landlord is showing signs of weakness, signs of folding, signs of losing interest in events in the region that most endangers world peace. "

Obama's Senior Moment

Wall Street Journal "Why the elderly are right to worry when the government rations medical care."

Tort Reform Can Lower Costs Without Harming Health Care. So Why Isn’t It in Obama’s Plan?

Pajamas Media "President Obama received almost 50 percent of all dollars from the legal industry, and two-thirds of all legal industry dollars went to Democrats Obama and Clinton."

Nazis for Me, but Not for Thee; By Andrew McCarthy

NRO= "There is no conceivable substantive connection between opposition to Obamacare and German National Socialism — they are antithetical. By invoking the Nazis, Pelosi was patently slandering dissenters as racist thugs."

Real Health Reform

Weekly Standard "Republicans can advance ideas like these: discrete solutions to particular problems, and not a wholesale remaking of the system. These ideas are not simple--each would have its complications, as the problems to be solved are quite complex; but they are simpler than a wholesale overhaul of health care."

Air Force to buzz before bombing

BLACKFIVE "We will now get the bad guys buzzed, er we will buzz them from over head to hopefully disperse them. If not we can move to dropping iron rain. But it's even more fun to note that the proponent for this policy is LTG Hostage."

http://townhall.com/cartoons/cartoonist/EricAllie

Australian Senate defeats cap and trade legislation

American Thinker "The government needs to explain to the Australian people why global temperatures have remained steady over the last 10-15 years despite skyrocketing man made carbon emissions."

Can the GOP win in 2010?

American Thinker "Of course, self destructing Democrats are only part of the equation. Republicans must come up with an agenda that the American people will support. So far, that hasn't happened although one would expect them to formulate one before the first of the year. The Democrats are becoming the toxic party now. Where they'll be in a year will determine the result in 2010."

From 'Yes, We Can,' to 'No! Don't!' By Peggy Noonan

Wall Street Journal "The president seemed like a man long celebrated as being very good at politics—the swift rise, the astute reading of a varied electorate—who is finding out day by day that he isn't actually all that good at it. In this sense he does seem reminiscent of Jimmy Carter, who was brilliant at becoming president but not being president."

Video: Liberals Remove "Offensive Words" From Textbooks....

Weasel Zippers "Most absurd in my opinion: Adam and Eve being changed to Eve and Adam (so men don't appear superior)...." Language advisory elsewhere in this site.

Hmmm: Was There a Plant at the Sheila Jackson Lee Town Hall Meeting?

Patterico's Pontifications/ "Some attendees at the meeting spoke in favor of the plan, go so far as to want a system where the government had complete control. One supporter, Dr. Roxana Mayer, a physician who does not live in Jackson Lee’s district, praised the reform plan for overhauling a broken system. “I don’t know what there is in the bill that creates such panic,” she said. MyBarackObama shows a Roxana Mayer was a Texas Delegate for Obama..."

More Health Care Nonsense

Charles Krauthammer "...However, prevention is not, as so widely advertised, healing on the cheap. It is not the magic bullet for health care costs. You will hear some variation of that claim a hundred times in the coming health care debate. Whenever you do, remember: It's nonsense -- empirically demonstrable and CBO-certified."