SNOBama

Even though it’s an abuse of the word elite, this is funny.

Treason is a Habit

The Nasty Little Man says he’s been meeting with terrorists “for years“. Even the State Department says our Worst Ex-President shouldn’t go.

I’ll grant him this: He’s consistent.

In Praise of Elitism

Roger Kimball has shown me the error of my ways. I had fallen into the habit of using “elitist” as an ephithet. Worse, I had no excuse.

The point is that reality is elitist. Failure to acknowledge that might make you feel kinder, gentler, etc., but at the significant cost of living a lie.

I’ll never confuse elitism with arrogance again. (Read the whole article. It’s a gas.)

NBC: When we said “Family Hour”…

…we didn’t exactly mean “family hour“.

Wrapping it up with T.J.

The fifth and final installment of Peter Robinson’s interview with T.J. Rodgers is here.

T. J. Rodgers discusses the promise and pitfalls of the most popular alternative-energy sources (other than solar). Ethanol? Rodgers says it’s a “total waste.” However, bioengineering and genetic engineering that address the entire corn plant, rather than just the fruit, hold promise. Wind power? Rodgers says it produces high energy volume while remaining cheaper per kilowatt hour than solar. Nuclear? Not only is it cheap and efficient — it’s safe.

From the Horse’s Mouth

Zombie has audio of Obama’s shoe sandwich.

And yes, I know that some of you are thinking of the other end of the horse.

Moment of Truth

Yesterday I read Michael Yon’s new book. It is vital and timely. Everybody – of any stripe – interested in the war should buy it and read it.

Those of us who have been reading Yon’s dispatches have been ahead of the information curve on Iraq for years. More valuable information was in one of his posts than in a month of the New York Times. He’s always been an independent voice and keen observer. Some of what he saw got him in hack with the military. He saw the impending civil war months before any officials would admit it. But he also called al Qaeda’s loss of Iraq long before – wait. I guess nobody else is close to calling that one yet. Give it a few months.

Much of the book will be familiar to long time Yon readers. The heart pounding action and heart rending atrocities are all there. Now it’s all bound up in a narrative that takes the reader from the near disaster that Iraq was just a few years ago to the near miracle it is now. Yet, for all the progress, victory balances on the edge of a knife blade even today.

Glenn Reynolds suggests buying copies for your local library and your congresscritters. While not convinced that my misrepresentative is reading at a “chapter book” level, maybe she could understand some of the pictures.

Buy the book at the link above and you might get one of the few remaining autographed copies. On Amazon, the book has shot to #75 on the sales rankings. Here’s hoping it goes higher.