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P.
J. O'Rourke writes on our prospects in the Weekly Standard:
Let us bend over and kiss our ass goodbye. Our 28-year conservative opportunity to fix the moral and practical boundaries of government is gone--gone with the bear market and the Bear Stearns and the bear that's headed off to do you-know-what in the woods on our philosophy.
P. J. is pessimistic and pissed off. And, as always, he gets the coveted Pun Salad Read the Whole Thing award for the day.
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Everyone in God's Green Blogosphere is linking to Greg
Mankiw's advice to President-elect Obama, and Pun Salad is no
exception. Prof Mankiw is the runner-up for today's RtWT award, so if you have
time… It's good advice, and to the extent that Obama follows it,
he's likely to anger a whole lot more Democrats than Republicans. So
how likely is that? Still, Obama is allegedly smart, and he does
have some good economic advisers.
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Mark Steyn has more on the Newsweek
allegations about Sarah Palin's October 15 visit to New Hampshire. He
points out that the McCain people were arguably shirty to the GOP's
(doomed) gubernatorial candidate, Joe Kenney.
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At QandO, McQ has more on the Obama "national
service" proposal. If you're not dissuaded by the sheer collectivism
of the proposal, maybe some of the utilitarian details will do the
trick.
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Please also note that Obama's to-be White House Chief of Staff,
Rahm Emanuel, is unlikely to be a brake on any new sweeping
new coercive programs. As Jim Lindgren points
out, Rahm loves the word "universal", and among the things
he loves to stick it in front of is "citizen service."
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Cracked deals in its usual sensitive and sober way with "6
People Who Died In Order To Prove A (Retarded) Point."
(Especially
recommended to people who were impressed by the movie Into the
Wild.)
So don't be like them.
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And also, please: don't be like Becky.
This cracks me up every time it's on TV.
Nov
9
2008
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2008-11-09