Sean Trende takes Paul Krugman to the wood shed: Let’s also be clear that an awful lot of this spending is Obama’s spending, not Bush’s. The summary tables for Bush’s last budget (FY09) can be found here. Bush wasn’t doing ten-year budgeting, but his outlays for 2011 were $3.1 trillion, for 2012 were $3.2 trillion… Continue reading

Walter Russell Mead today: Anyway, as the Post now belatedly acknowledges, the movement to stop climate change through a Really Big and Comprehensive Grand Global Treaty is dead because there is no political consensus in the US to go forward.  It’s dead because the UN process is toppling over from its own excessive ambition and… Continue reading

Forensic genetics and the pharaohs of Egypt: After extracting tiny amounts of ancient DNA from the mummies’ bones, the researchers amplified 16 short tandem repeats (short sequences in the DNA that create a genetic fingerprint) and eight polymorphic microsatellites (hereditary molecular markers) to testable quantities using techniques commonly employed in criminal or paternity investigations. They… Continue reading

George Will with a good article today on Sarah Palin: Populism has had as many incarnations as it has had provocations, but its constant ingredient has been resentment, and hence whininess. Populism does not wax in tranquil times; it is a cathartic response to serious problems. But it always wanes because it never seems serious… Continue reading

Dan Rayburn says it’s time to take stock of YouTube on its 5th anniversary: In his latest post on YouTube’s blog, talking about YouTube’s fifth birthday, Chad makes all kinds of references to YouTube’s “innovation“, “experience” and how they provide the “revenue models“, “tools” and just about anything else a content owner needs to succeed.… Continue reading