Mark Steyn will be on Ezra’s show on Sun TV later today to discuss his new book, After America.
If you enjoyed Mark’s last apocalyptic blockbuster, you’ll appreciate this one even more. From budgets to the border, diversity to disease, manufacturing to manhood, Steyn looks at the American undreaming, and provides a glimpse of the post-American world. There’s laughs along the way, and a few suggestions as to how total civilizational collapse might be avoided.
Peter Cheney has written a most interesting column in which he proffers that he’d rather drive up to 1,000 miles (1,600 km) than fly. He discusses his thoughts with Charles Adler here.
What’s the maximum distance or time that you’d rather drive than fly?
After a very long day I needed a laugh. Here are several, courtesy of Jerry Seinfeld and his friends.
Your Reader Tips are welcome, as always, in the comments.
A vote for Canada’s Best Political Book of the Past 25 Years goes horribly wrong.
Well, done SDA Nation. Well done.
National Post has more.
Horst Mahler was a leader of the German radical left in the 1960s and ’70s. Now he’s a member of the radical right, sitting in jail for denying the Holocaust. But he’s reportedly verified reports that he informed for Communist spies in the ’60s.
That would be the “right” as in neo-national socialist party “right”.
Update: More from Ed Driscoll
h/t Maz2
With a totalitarian party to vote for!
Egyptian forces swinging electrified batons and shouting the battle cry “God is great” swiftly chased off dozens of activists Monday…
(h/t WallyJ)
“Spain vs. Poland” could alternatively have been written as “A bloated, inefficient public sector vs. A thriving, efficient private sector”. The BBC’s Peter Day explores the differences in this most excellent podcast. More info here.
It’s so brutally and blatantly obvious, yet socialists the world over will never understand.
Phil writes from Ottawa;
I met a gentleman in the Calgary airport yesterday who mentioned the
Portraits of Honour project now touring Canada. Essentially it’s a
large 50′ mural with painted portraits of our fallen soldiers with
a goal to raise funds for troop support.
Afterwards I thought about you and SDA nation.
It has already received plenty of media attention and their website
http://www.portraitsofhonour.com/ with a 9 minute video at the bottom
clearly explains the background and the goal of the project.
There are four stops scheduled for Saskatchewan in August. Check it out.
JP Morgan warned clients that Italy has a thin margin of safety and risks running out of cash to cover spending as soon as September. “Italy and Spain will run out of cash in September and February respectively, if they lose access to funding markets,” said the bank’s fixed income team of Pavan Wadhwa and Gianluca Salford. Worries about Italy’s immediate cash level risks leading to “a self-fulfilling negative spiral.”
Larry Griswold was a gymnast, comedian, and co-inventor of the trampoline. Here’s a funny video of him appearing on Frank Sinatra’s show.
Your humorous and serious Reader Tips are welcome, as always, in the comments.
This morning Dennis Miller had a brilliant, off-the-cuff rant that accurately points out how the Left is consistently against every form of energy needed to power a nation. In America today, the Democrats are truly the party of “No”!
Never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by malice.
“… the Justice Department has asked several banks to relax their mortgage underwriting standards and approve loans for minorities with poor credit as part of a new crackdown on alleged discrimination.
And to think we laughed at Peggy Joseph.
h/t R. Black
This summer the pace of layoffs seems to be accelerating all over the nation. Just check out what has been happening over the past few weeks….
-Lockheed Martin has made “voluntary layoff offers” to 6,500 employees.
-Detroit is losing even more jobs. American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings has told the remaining 300 workers at its manufacturing facility in Detroit that their jobs will be ending in early 2012.
-Layoff notices have been sent to 519 employees of Milwaukee Public Schools, and more than 400 open positions are going to go unfilled.
-The Gap has announced that up to 200 stores will be closed over the next two years.
-Cisco has announced plans to lay off 9 percent of their total workforce.
-Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel says that 625 city employees will be losing their jobs as a result of cutbacks.
-Pharmaceutical giant Merck recently dumped 51 workers from an office in Raleigh, North Carolina.
-Perkins has revealed that they will be closing 58 restaurants.
-This week, Goldman Sachs announced that they will be eliminating 1,000 jobs.
-Cracker Barrel is rapidly reducing staff at its headquarters.
-Telecommunications and web marketing firm Crexendo has announced that it will be laying off about 30 percent of its workforce.
-Borders has announced that they will be shutting down their remaining 399 stores and that 10,700 employees will lose their jobs.
-Now that the space shuttle program has ended, thousands of NASA employees will be losing their jobs.
Keep track at DailyJobCuts.com. On the other hand, when Paul Krugman disapproves, there may be hope!
Ed Morrissey has more.
h/t Maz2, Ed S.
Let me fix that for you: CBC Exposed.
Loyal SDA readers have been putting up with dog shows all year – what’s one more? Here’s Ch. Nancolleth Markable winning Best In Show at Westminster Kennel Club, 1932.
I’d post footage of new Can.Am.Ch.Minuteman Underworld winning the Miniature Schnauzer Club of Canada National yesterday, but our videographer had to take him into the ring for me. So this ringside candid taken last month in Long Beach (where he finished his AKC title at the MSC of Southern California specialty) will have to do.
Just when you thought things couldn’t get worse for the Liberal Party of Canada, they went ahead and got worse. Or perhaps it’s more accurate to say, worse is out to get them.
You knew they were coming for fracking, didn’t you? Because it works, you know – and that just won’t do.
Cost shifting is the practice of shifting the much of the cost of Medicare, Medicaid, and indigent care to private insurance or the uninsured. In simple terms, private insurance premiums bear a 20-40% hidden tax to support underpayments in government programs.
The implications are enormous. The avenues for inefficiency and corruption are endless. But the implementation of Obamacare will be the real tipping point. Millions of government sponsored patients will be added to the rolls. Their underpayments will be forced into the premiums of private insurance. The collapse of private health insurance will be almost immediate. The effect on healthcare will be devastating, and the cost of public care will escalate 20-40% or more.
(The source articles linked there are behind a subscriber wall, but you can access reprints of the second here.)
(h/t Ed Z)
