A company called Dubai Ports World wants to buy a company called the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company. P&O has the contracts to manage major terminals at several East Coast ports, including the one in Baltimore, the ideal port of entry for a Capitol-bound nuclear bomb. P&O is a private Britain-based firm. Dubai Ports […]
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Links of the Day: Gas Tax Edition
Good discussion on this stuff over at Tapped and Eschaton. Here’s Matt, then Atrios, then me, then Atrios, then me again.
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You, Sir, Are No Bode Miller
I can’t agree with Tom Watson’s Bode Miller-George W. Bush comparison. Miller, after all, is a spectacular talent (albeit quite a jerk) who just endured an ignominious implosion. But he was, then and now, an athlete’s athlete, a golden boy who spent enough time on the slopes and hours on the lifts to hone what […]
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College Rankings or Junk Science?
It’s approaching that season when students and their parents anxiously await college admissions decisions. But increasingly, an equally feverish process is infecting the other side of the transaction and distorting the process of who gets financial aid. Colleges these days engage in an ever more frantic competition for ”rankings,” driven almost entirely by the annual […]
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Canada Middling, America Mediocre
Mahablog did a very good job, but I should probably address the New York Times article on the “deterioration” of the Canadian health care system. For those requiring a refreshed course on how CanadaCare operates, head back to my series on the subject. Here’s the summary: Canada has a mediocre health care system that’s a […]
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Handling Dubaiya
I knew Republicans were scared about the November midterms, but it was not until the theatrical uproar over the Dubai Ports World deal that it became clear exactly how scared they are, and how much they feel a need to separate themselves from their president. The “Hell No” letter to the president by North Carolina […]
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Attention Campus Leftists
By Neil the Ethical Werewolf When the College Republicans have an anti-affirmative-action bake sale, they really want you to complain to the administration. If you do, they will achieve free speech martyrdom. David Horowitz will then admit them to paradise, where they will find 72 virgins who look suspiciously like Ann Coulter. Don’t play into […]
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Bipartisan Maverick Destruction Advice
By Neil the Ethical Werewolf I think George Allen is a more likely 2008 Republican candidate than John McCain, but it doesn’t hurt to have a plan for every possibility. And given my mad Edwards love, I’m itching to put this bit from the latest Marist Poll where everybody can see: Senator McCain has a […]
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RIP Don Knotts
Don Knotts has died at age 81. He was Barney Fife, he was Ralph Furley, and he was Dubya. But for me, he’ll always be Theodore Ogelvie from The Apple Dumpling Gang. — Shakes