NY-23 SIENA POLL: Hoffman 35, Owens 36, Scozzafava 20.
UPDATE: Scozzafava Drops Out.
I credit Bill Quick.
ANOTHER UPDATE: Much more at DumpDede.com.
Archive for October, 2009
October 31, 2009
MEMO: It’s now officially safe to criticize Barack Obama. “Numbers like that mean Obama’s intimidation factor has disappeared.”
REVIEWING THE WHITE HOUSE VISITOR LOGS: “As far as I can tell, THE Andrew Stern was the top outside visitor to the White House with approximately 20 visits, or about three visits per month, including four relatively small meetings with the president and a dozen with other White House staffers. Stern has openly bragged about the SEIU’s $61 million investment in Barack Obama. It certainly bought him a lot of access.”
TUCSON COUNCILWOMAN apologizes for “teabagger” slur.
PLUMMETING FERTILITY. “When people got richer, families got smaller; and as families got smaller, people got richer. Now, something similar is happening in developing countries. Fertility is falling and families are shrinking in places— such as Brazil, Indonesia, and even parts of India—that people think of as teeming with children. As our briefing shows, the fertility rate of half the world is now 2.1 or less—the magic number that is consistent with a stable population and is usually called ‘the replacement rate of fertility’. Sometime between 2020 and 2050 the world’s fertility rate will fall below the global replacement rate.”
ANDREW BREITBART IN THE WASHINGTON POST: ACORN video creates new conservative star.
MORE DEVELOPMENTS in the N.E.A. scandal. “Former actor and present White House associate director of public engagement Kalpen Modi was directly involved in planning the controversial conference call hosted by a National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) flack to encourage tax-supported artists to create propaganda for President Obama, according to emails obtained by Judicial Watch via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.”
MEGAN MCARDLE: Seriously, stop worrying about hyperinflation.
TIM CAVANAUGH: Why was Hollywood unwilling or unable to make compelling narratives about the horrors of the Soviet system?
I’d just like to see somebody make Total Eclipse.
TOO SMALL TO LEAD. “There are many reasons why Obama, according to Gallup, has suffered the largest decline in approval, at this portion in his term, of any elected president since 1953 — and why more Americans believe in UFOs than approve of the job done by Congress. But one reason is surely the bitter, brittle tone of the new Democratic establishment — highlighted by the promise they have raised and disappointed. How did the tonal candidate become so tone-deaf?”
October 30, 2009
ABC NEWS: Obama Administration Invokes State Secrets Privilege…Again. Hope and change!
BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED: Obamlet. By Neo-Neocon.
MODIFIED LIMITED HANGOUT: White House releases only a few visitor logs.
Despite the accompanying White House claim of “transparency like you’ve never seen before,” the Obama White House continues to take the same legal position as the Bush White House, arguing that the records are not public records subject to the Freedom of Information Act. Only limited “voluntary releases” are being made to settle a lawsuit filed by an advocacy group, though a federal judge has twice ruled that all the visitor logs are public.
Here’s what they’ve bothered to release, in PDF and Excel formats.
UPDATE: More here.
THE ELECTION’S A FORMALITY NOW: Doug Hoffman gets the coveted IowaHawk endorsement.
A SENTENCE THAT WAS in The New York Times before it was not.
MARKDOWNS ON digital cameras and video.
21 HALLOWEEN COSTUMES that will not get you laid.
SHOULD HOTELS PROVIDE MOUSEPADS?
You can always just take along your own.
MAINSTREAMING INFIDELITY at The New York Times.
FORGET THE DITTOCAM, IT’S THE DANACAM: Dana Loesch goes live on webcam.
MICKEY KAUS discovers that he doesn’t really like Obama. Oh, Obama’s likable enough.
IN THE NEW JERSEY GOVERNOR’S RACE, it’s neck-and-neck.