Juan Cole over at Informed Comment has this Fun Fact about BP: BP, by the way, is British Petroleum, a descendant of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company. The Iranian parliament asked for a better deal from the AIOC in the late 1940s and early 1950s (they wanted a 50/50 cut of the profits, which was what …
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Kucinich Will Pay
Gawker has posted the guest list for tomorrow’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner. I would call the gathering, to use a fine British slang phrase, a dog’s dinner, but then we BJers are all responsible pet owners who feed our dogs a well-balanced diet. Those sensible progressives who’ve been less than entranced by certain of Dennis …
The Most Amusing Spin Ever
Ed Morrisey with an instant classic: In January, Barack Obama and Democrats insisted that the 5.7% annual growth rate in the fourth quarter of 2009 showed that their stimulus plan had set the American economy back on track for rapid growth and job creation. The administration needed a big number for 2010 to allay fears …
For Your Viewing Pleasure
If we let gays in the military, there will be videos of men wearing only their underwear and suspenders and a sign that says “STEAM” over their heads as they dirty dance with other men! Might be time for the military to institute “Don’t Ask, Don’t You Tube”. *** Update *** Had no idea Anne …
Freakonomics
The National Review sure has some strange views on economics. First of all, they now believe that economic growth equals communism (via Brad DeLong). And then there’s this, from one of John Derbyshire’s bankster friends: Go ahead and continue to take us down, but you’re only going to hurt yourselves. What’s going to happen when …
Really- This Is All About Border Security
Race and racism has nothing to do with it: Just a week after signing the country’s toughest immigration bill into law, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer now must decide whether to endorse another bill passed by her state legislature — one that outlaws ethnic-studies programs in public schools. *** Arizona’s superintendent for public instruction, Tom Horne, …
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Built to spill
Could this be the same black ops SWAT team that gunned down those grandmas in Illinois earlier today? Limbaugh laid out his conspiracy theory, “Now lest we forget, ladies and gentlemen, the carbon tax bill, cap and trade, that was scheduled to be announced on Earth Day, I remember that, then it was postponed for …