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Someone, please, tell me that this is just a joke
Tweet Share on Facebook April 28, 2006 CommentThe Corner poster notes the following from the Eursoc:
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Odds and ends
Tweet Share on Facebook April 28, 2006 Comment (1)From the invaluable Corner of National Review Online I find this gem, from Spain
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The immigration bill and Mexico's election
Tweet Share on Facebook April 27, 2006 Comment (2)Those were the subjects of a talk yesterday at the Center for Strategic and International Studies by Jorge Castaneda. Castaneda was Mexico's foreign minister from 2000 to 2003 and is a scholar who has written many books.
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The Gulag
Tweet Share on Facebook April 26, 2006 Comment (2)Jon Utley, a friend whose views on foreign policy are very different from mine, brings to my attention the opening of Ellis Island of exhibits from the Perm concentration camp in Russia. Jon's father died in the Gulag, and he has visited the Perm camp. I pass along this from an E-mail:
On May 3 there is opening on Ellis Island exhibits brought here from the Perm concentration camp. It is sponsored by the National Park Service. ... I wrote about the camp in my report on visiting Northern Russia.
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Alternative energy
Tweet Share on Facebook April 26, 2006 CommentWhat is the efficiency of alternative energy sources? Here's a handy table from Popular Mechanics, via Instapundit.
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Two good pieces from the Los Angeles Times
Tweet Share on Facebook April 26, 2006 Comment (14)Here is a story from the Los Angeles Times on how teachers unions bilk their members by steering them into investments that don't give them maximum returns but do give massive returns to the unions.
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Tony Snow
Tweet Share on Facebook April 26, 2006 Comment (106)It's official. Tony Snow is the new White House press secretary.
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From my reading list
Tweet Share on Facebook April 25, 2006 CommentAs you hear people moaning about gas prices and read polls showing half the country thinks we're in a recession, you can get a more accurate picture of the American economy from Gerard Baker's column in the Times of London. Excerpts:
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A Mexico Marshall Plan?
Tweet Share on Facebook April 24, 2006 Comment (1)Interesting opinion article in the Saturday Washington Post by Steven Hill of the New America Foundation. Hill argues that the United States should imitate the European Union's policies toward its new members, policies begun when Ireland, Portugal, and Greece were added to the EU and then applied to applicant nations in central and eastern Europe. These include "massive subsidies–billions of dollars' worth–to help construct schools, roads, telecommunications, and housing," and requirements that new members "raise their standards on the environment, labor law, health, and safety–and more. The incentive of admission to the European club was used as a carrot to pull the poorer nations toward acceptance of human rights and political democracy. There won't be any border maquiladoras in the European Union."
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Airbrushing out inconvenient facts
Tweet Share on Facebook April 24, 2006 CommentThe Washington Post ran a sympathetic profile of fired CIA analyst Mary McCarthy on Sunday. . Astonishingly, the article didn't mention that McCarthy donated some $7,500 to Democrats in 2004, including $2,000 to Sen. John Kerry and $5,000 to the Ohio Democratic Party. Also a Michael McCarthy of the same Bethesda ZIP code, perhaps Mary McCarthy's husband or other relative, contributed $2,000 to Kerry and $500 to Sen. Barbara Mikulski of Maryland in 2004. .
