Karl Rove ‘Example How Not to Do It’

GOP strategist Ed Rollins opines, "I think the legacy is that Karl Rove will be a name that'll be used for a long, long time as an example of how not to do it." To paraphrase Bill Clinton, it all depends on what the meaning of "it" is. If we're talking of Rove as a campaign runner, it's nonsensical. ...

Forced Public Transit

Robert Reich, who admits that he used to commute by car rather than public transit because "I've never been able to organize myself around their schedules," is delighted that people are now being forced to do what he wouldn't by high gas prices. For years, policymakers have wondered just how high gas prices would have to go before drivers switch ...

Oil Company Profits

With the run up in oil prices, oil companies have seen their profits also run up. For many this is just wrong. That consumers have to pay more at the pump and oil companies see huge profits…why that is positively un-American! Never mind that there is an obvious and logical connection between profits for a firm and ...

Two Blogs that Pass in the Night

Yesterday's exchange with Thers over the state of conservatism reflects a major defect in the blogging medium. For the most part, we write blogs in serial fashion, as a conversation with our readers, and presume that recent posts on the same subject have been read. Most blog readers, on the other hand, parachute into posts based on links ...

OTB Caption Jam^TM

Weekend Caption Jam Linkfest. . . Rodney is giving CBS some competition. Wizbang has the Tom Sawyer whitewash defense. Wyatt Earp is doing a little scanning. Public Pondering isn't really for school uniforms. Cowboy Blob thinks there is one good head between the two of 'em. ...

New American Arsenal

I attended a briefing today at the National Press Club featuring some board members of the American Security Project promoting what they have dubbed "A New American Arsenal." The bipartisan group, headed by Gary Hart and featuring the likes of John Kerry, Ken Duberstein, Richard Armitage, and several retired flag officers urges a return of a bipartisan foreign ...

Global Warming Consensus

Ronald Bailey points to an interesting survey by the Statistical Assesment Service (STATS) on global warming. It is a survey of the views of climate scientists. Here are some of the findings: Ninety-seven percent of the climate scientists surveyed believe “global average temperatures have increased” during the past century. Eighty-four percent say they personally believe human-induced warming is occurring, and ...

Coral Reefs, Carbon Dioxide, and Climate Change

Indur Goklany has a staggeringly scientifcally illiterate post regarding coral reefs and climate change based on the re-emergence of coral reefs over fifty years after nuclear testing took place.How often have you heard that coral reefs are fragile and would be wiped out by global warming? [...] In 1954 the South Pacific atoll was rocked by a 15 megaton hydrogen bomb 1,000 ...

Caption Contest Winners

The Misogynists Anonymous Edition OTB Caption ContestTM is now over. (Andrei Kasprishin/Reuters) ✰ THE WINNERS ✰ First: Elmo - Rev. Wright's new neighbors welcome him to the hood. Second: Gollum - You know this isn't in America because there are no guns. Third: Hoodlumman - It was just an old wife's tale that drinking large quantities of beer was a cure ...

Bill Clinton’s $450,000 Charity Speech

Fundraising has been very, very good to Bill Clinton. When London socialite Renu Mehta sought to urge Britain's super-rich into giving more to charity, she threw a fundraising dinner headlined by former President Bill Clinton, who has used his global star power to encourage large-scale philanthropy that stresses accountability. Mehta declared the first gathering of her Fortune Forum, held Sept. ...