Border Battles
The president compared Israel and the Palestinians to the U.S. and Canada during his Middle East trip. Whatever, it’s all the same.
Other People’s Money in Cyprus
The EU tried to tax Cypriot savings accounts up to 10% in exchange for a bail-out of the banking system. The attempted heist was broken up by the Cyprus parliament with 36-0 vote. So now the Cyprus banks are closed until Tuesday awaiting plan B.
Arnold Ahlert says the world banking system is running out of other people’s money -“we’re all Cypriots now”.
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House Divided of the Living Dead
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus called for a rebrand of the Republican party. He wants to shed its image of “stuffy old men”. The Republicans called it an autopsy report.
Here’s Jonah Goldberg on the Republican rise of libertarians like Rand Paul and the fusion of conservative and libertarian thinking.
Pop Tart Politics
By now you’ve heard of the mouth modified assault pop tart caper. A seven year old Maryland boy was suspended from school for gnawing a pop tart into the shape of a gun.
You can laugh but even an unloaded pop tart is more dangerous than you think.
Says Mark Steyn, “You’re doomed, America, You’re done for. No society can survive this level of stupidity.”
As I write this, news comes in of T.J. Lane, a high schooler with a real gun who killed real people in Chardon, Ohio a year ago. He just received three life sentences without parole. In court he expressed his remorse with a smirk while wearing a t-shirt emblazoned “killer” in hand lettering. He turned to the members of his victims’ families and told them he masturbated to the memory and gave them the finger.
I think his prison term will be short.
Those Whacky Puritans
While the Mayor and Michelle go Carrie Nation on the sugar industry, the rest of us are bailing it out with price supports. Got the idea for this one from this Steve Chapman column.
