Neptunus Lex

Bob Owens has noticed that the laws of supply and demand have been subtly altered - not for the first time - by government policy. Or, in this case at least, the anticipation of Change(!!1!) in government policy:
“I could sell a hundred ARs an hour, if I had them.”
That was the word from the man [...]

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Garbage out:
A surreal scientific blunder last week raised a huge question mark about the temperature records that underpin the worldwide alarm over global warming. On Monday, Nasa’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), which is run by Al Gore’s chief scientific ally, Dr James Hansen, and is one of four bodies responsible for monitoring global [...]

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Sometimes the line between farce and fact is alarmingly thin.

In The Know: Should The Government Stop Dumping Money Into A Giant Hole?
(H/T to Lee)

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And your enemies closer:
Several Obama transition advisers are strongly advocating Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) for secretary of state, a move that would create the ultimate “Team of Rivals” Cabinet, according to officials involved in the discussions.
President-elect Obama has narrowed the possibilities for secretary of state, and Clinton is among those being strongly considered, the [...]

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Much petted liberal propagandist and part-time fabulist Michael Moore has apparently eaten through his profits from Fahrenheit 9/11, and is busily prepping a new mockumentory highlighting what he evidently expects to be the fin de siècle Americain:
The untitled movie will contain an end-of-the-empire tone, say those familiar with the project, and Moore no doubt hopes [...]

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Way back, what was it? Ten days ago? I predicted that one bright spot to the president-elect’s victory was that we could put paid to the “legions of the homeless” meme for the next few years, and fondly bid farewell to all those loons on stilt puppets.
Batting .500, so far.

I wonder if they get dental?

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Ecce: The electoral impact of the densely populated “coastal elites” and urban dwellers on our recent national elections.

Apart from the aforementioned concentration of solidly blueish areas, one can discern the I-95 corridor down the east coast, the Mississippi River valley to the south and the Rust Belt to the north - pockets of endemic economic [...]

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One has to wonder what kind of glue the jollies on Wall Street were sniffing on election day, 2008, when the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 300 points on light volume. Whatever it was, the effect wore off in the following two days:
U.S. stocks slid, sending the market to its biggest two-day slump since 1987, [...]

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All for the best:
Yes, they’re voicing outrage today inside the sacred sanctuary of the Temple of Objective Journalism , where the celebrants nervously fingered their rosaries rather than confront the Constitutional bonfire that was building outside.
But for eight years now, there’s been an out-of-control fire raging outside of that temple – a fire [...]

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“In my life, I have prayed but one prayer: oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.” — Voltaire

Updated: The Ministry of Education is already on the job!

The Dutch media, sadly, is not in receipt of the memo.
Update 2: Chris Matthews got the memo!

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