Just Michigan:
The Oakland Press: Orion marks National Day of PrayerMLive: A new tactic for creating jobs in Michigan: 'Economic gardening'
The Oakland Press: Protesters target BP along Woodward Avenue near 12 Mile Road. I was there and will post on it soon.
Warrendale (Detroit) Blog: Pension Protest. "The Michigan Legislature introduced bills last month that could potentially dismantle the City of Detroit’s two public pension funds and bring them under the management of a nonprofit trust based in Lansing. This move has been bitterly contested by the various labor unions that are served by those funds."
Michigan Taxes too Much: PA 312 Forces Unreasonable Conditions Upon Community Management
The Detroit News: DHS workers protest labor conditions. "State employees are scheduled to hold a rally at noon today protesting work conditions marked by insufficient staffing." Translation: give us more money!
Real racism:
American Thinker: Dissonance and Victimhood. "Why are so many blacks willing to believe that the AIDS virus was invented by whites to exterminate them?" Freedom Works Action: Stop The Haters: Black Conservatives Respond
It's the economy, stupid!:
Business Insider: The "Real" Unemployment Rate Jumps To 17.1%. Minus the Enron accounting that is.WSJ: Illinois Budget Woes Come to a Boil. "Illinois lawmakers were in disarray Thursday as they groped for stopgap measures to address a $13 billion deficit equaling nearly half of the state's general-fund revenue.
The state faces one of the nation's worst budget crises, spilled over in part from the broader national economic crunch, and its current bond ratings lag only California's. But the confusion in the legislature indicates that serious steps to fix state finances won't be taken until after the November elections—if then."
Doug Ross: It's the Obama Recovery! Removing Census Jobs and Other Chaff From Employment Numbers Reveals That Only 36K Jobs Were Added Last Month
Some of the results in this new article by Zeljka Buturovic and Dan Klein in Econ Journal Watch (a peer-reviewed journal of economics) are startling:
Note that the questions here are not whether the benefits of these policies might outweigh the costs, but the basic economic effects of these policies.
- 67% of self-described Progressives believe that restrictions on housing development (i.e., regulations that reduce the supply of housing) do not make housing less affordable.
- 51% believe that mandatory licensing of professionals (i.e., reducing the supply of professionals) doesn’t increase the cost of professional services.
- Perhaps most amazing, 79% of self-described Progressive believe that rent control (i.e., price controls) does not lead to housing shortages.
Hollywood:
NewsBusters: Actress Scarlett Johansson Gushes She's Drunk the 'Kool-Aid' of 'Amazing' ObamaBig Hollywood: Whoopi Says Without Abortion Parents Just Kill Kids Later. "Goldberg attempted to explain why she supports abortion. It’s because, you see, if parents can’t kill their kids in utero she thinks parents will just kill their kids later on in their lives." Good grief.
Wizbang: Another Hollywood Hypocrite. "...the last few times I saw her interviewed she talked about her husband, Dario Franchitti -- the race car driver. She attends the races and supports him. I don't know much about Judd,but I do know that much. I just don't get it. Is Judd so clueless that she doesn't see how hypocritical it is to talk about her carpooling when her husband is burning all that oil running around and around a track? Or does she just assume no one in the media will call her out on it?"
Yahoo! News: World's biggest beaver dam discovered in northern Canada
Media matters:
American Power: You Can't Be Serious! Elisabeth Hasselbeck Forced to Apologize for Tame Erin Andrews Joke?Gateway Pundit: Andrew Breitbart: “The Left Is, in Essence, The Media”
Dan Riehl: The GOP, Twitter And Social Media
A for P: Why is Net Neutrality Bad?
Miscellaneous:
Nice Deb: Jason “Crash The Tea Party” Levin Still Blaming “Teabaggers” For Time Square BombAP via The Detroit News: 'Twilight' effect? Isabella top name for girls; Jacob No. 1 for boys
The Politico: Facebook turns on Sarah Palin. "Former Alaska GOP Gov. Sarah Palin's endorsement of Carly Fiorina in California's Senate race has prompted a fervent blowback on her Facebook page, long Palin's safe haven for delivering her message. The revolt is coming from Palin supporters who also back Chuck DeVore — a tea party favorite who is campaigning against Fiorina in the Republican primary."
Lew Rockwell: Render Unto Caesar:A Most Misunderstood New Testament Passage. From Kathy Hoekstra on FB: As Dorothy Day is reputed to have said, "If we rendered unto God all ...the things that belong to God, there would be nothing left for Caesar."
Fausta's Blog: So easy, even a caveman could do it
related at Story Balloon: Humans And Neanderthals Interbred.
Popsci via Instapundit: The Internal Combustion Engine Is Not Dead
LA Times: Al Franken takes over the U.S. Senate floor to explain a newspaper cartoon to the waiting nation
American Thinker: OK to Celebrate the National Day of Prayer the Obama Way? "The National Day of Prayer was designated by the US Congress as the first Thursday in May, and approved by President Truman in 1952. President Obama completely ignored this year's observance on May 6, just as he did during his first year in office in 2009."
Big Government:The American Promise-Our First Principles. "In 1831, a French aristocrat, Alexis de Tocqueville’s recognized how different America’s infant democracy was from other democratic republics. He issued warnings to our young republic, “One also finds in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to want to bring the strong down to their level, and which reduces men to preferring equality in servitude to inequality in freedom”. De Tocqueville continued, “…when citizens are all almost equal, it becomes difficult for them to defend their independence against the aggressions of power”."
John Hawkins: Polling Conservative Bloggers On The Arizona Immigration Law, Illegals, & Legal Immigration
The Other McCain: Austerity Measures Cause Unrest
Just for laughs:
NewsBusted 5/7/10:The Right Scoop: Open Thread
The Troglopundit: Current Favorite Picture
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