– President Skorton’s welcome letter discusses low admissions rates, faculty honors and recognitions, shrinking annual deficits, and something about becoming a climate-neutral university and stopping global warming. – Senator Edward Kennedy was buried at Arlington National Cemetery on Saturday evening. – Via VK, the AP uncovers more ridiculous/inefficient pork barrel stimulus spending. – As Bilmes...
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MRM #13
– Welcome Freshmen! If you’re feeling right in your mind, be sure to check out the Cornell Review at Club Fest! A couple of Review representatives will be visiting Freshmen on North Campus this evening. – In case you saw/heard all those fire sirens on Saturday night, they were responding to a broken water pipe...
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Ibrahim critical of Obama’s “so-called-stimulus.”
Paul Ibrahim, former President of the Cornell Review, offers a critical assessment of Obama’s stimulus program in his most recent column.
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More 2010 Speculation
Continuing our recent series of posts on the 2010 midterms (my initial post, and then a revised argument) here’s an article by William Schneider that points to the unlikelihood of a “1994 repeat” for the Republicans in 2010. Schneider argues that Obama’s approval ratings are higher than Clinton’s numbers before the 1994 midterms when Bill was...
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MRM #10!
– The government’s “cash for clunkers” program ran out of cash, but people are still lining up with clunkers. Now Congress wants to throw $2 billion more to continue this “fleet modernization program.” – Taking a page out of Alexander Tyler’s book, Bill O’Reilly cites Benjamin Franklin on the end of the republic and weighs...
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Security Breach at the White House!
Somebody told Joe Biden about the time and place of the White House Beer Summit, as evidenced by this photo from Fox News:
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Monday Reading Madness #9
– Police Sgt. Crowley, Professor Gates, and President Obama will be meeting at the White House for a beer later this week, according to reports. In the meantime, Michael Mechanic writes about why you should never get righteous with street cops in the first place, and of course the NYT publishes an alternative opinion. –...
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Earthquake in 2010!
Peter Ferrara is predicting a Republican trouncing in the 2010 Congressional elections. It is a long article, but here is the gist of his argument: Next year would be a Republican year just because it is a midterm election with a Democrat in the White House. But because federal, state and local Democrats have been...
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Monday Reading MADNESS #7
Outfitted with pictures and videos for your viewing pleasure, this may be the most loaded, informative, invigorating and compulsively captivating MRM to date! – Peggy Noonan articulates many of the thoughts I have had about Sarah Palin and why she was not, and should not be, made into the face of the recovering Republican party....
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Obama Thanks Russia for Alex Ovechkin!
During his visit to Moscow, President Obama thanked Russia for NHL superstar Alexander Ovechkin, who plays for the Washington Capitals ice hockey team. Notice the nice Russian accent he puts on Ovechkin’s name. Obama failed to mention that he has yet to attend a Capitals game. I guess he’s sort of busy, so I’ll give...