Linkpost (06/19/2010, the “made in Oklahoma” edition)
- Gulf War Three (Mark Steyn, NRO)
Barack Obama was supposed to be the best, the very best, and yet he is always, reliably, consistently mediocre. His speech on oil was no better or worse than his speech on race. Yet the Obammyboppers who once squealed with delight are weary of last year’s boy band. At the end of the big Oval Office address, Keith Olbermann, Chris Matthews, and the rest of the MSNBC gang jeered the president. For a bewildered Obama, it must have felt like his Ceausescu balcony moment. Had they caught up with him in the White House parking lot, they’d have put him up against the wall and clubbed him to a pulp with Matthews’s no longer tingling leg.
- He was hired to be Obama, not to lead the country (Brothers Judd)
- Obama's Answer To Spill Comes Up Short (Charles Krauthammer, IBD)
- Stop the Barges! Stop the Barges! Where are the lifevests? (The Fat Guy)
- Internet 'Kill Switch' Would Give President Power To Shut Down Web (Bianca Bosker, HuffPo) For work, I pay attention to countries that may be at risk of coups when state radio/tv go dead or start to play patriotic tunes. I never expected a US Congressman ever seriously to consider giving a US President the power similarly to control an element of state media.
- Your Government At Work (Sallie James, Cato) The folks who want government to run all aspects of the lives of its “subjects” can never really explain how that can work when we have so many examples of government idiocy. Luckily, on the few occasions Americans have given those folks control of all three branches of government, they’ve made such a mess of things that it doesn’t happen again for decades. To that end, see the next two links.
- Dereliction of Duty (Stephen Hayes, Weekly Standard)
- Prepare Yourselves For Speaker Boehner (William Galston, TNR) That’s so alarmist. Don’t we know from LibDem partybloggers that this is all a figment of Rasmussen’s imagination? LOL
- Mitch Daniels, genial Jeremiah (Michael Gerson, RCP)
- TCU's pipeline to Houston leads to first Omaha trip (Sam Khan, Houston Chronicle) Todd Whitting was on Rayner Noble’s staff when UH was among the best, and was not as UH sunk below mediocrity. He should get a call from Mack Rhoades to be the next head coach at UH.
- Katharine Shilcutt Will Be the Next Food Critic at the Houston Press (Eating Our Words) An inspired choice. Very good mesh.
- Cereal killers (Trent Seibert)
- 36 Hours in Bordeaux (Seth Sherwood, NY Times) I should probably stop screwing around on the web as much as I do, and spend that time learning French/Greek (to help with fully enjoying trips).
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