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http://tigerhawk.blogspot.com/ - TigerHawk (ti*ger*hawk): n. 1. The title of this blog and the nom de plume of its founding blogger; 2. A deep bow to the Princeton Tigers and the Iowa Hawkeyes; 3. The nickname for Iowa's Hawkeye logo. Posts include thoughts of the day on ...
tigerhawk.blogspot.com - 114 minutes ago
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Glenn Reynolds links to this bit from Anthony
Dick at the Corner about University of California students
protesting cuts in subsidies. The spectacle of generally left-wing students demanding that more wealth be transferred up to them is as amusing -- ...
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Bratty greedy college students, again, and subsidies for ...
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I walked from 42nd and Third to Penn Station this morning, and took a couple of pictures along the way. Bryant Park:I used this camera, only orange.
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I walked across the campus from the Dinky station this afternoon, and snapped a few pics that some of you, at least, might enjoy.
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Parody this may be, but if it has not actually happened already it will before the health care "reform" bill gets passed...
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tigerhawk.blogspot.com - 6 hours ago
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The "Climate Skeptics Party" in Australia has launched
a new television campaign that is bound to stir
things up down under:More along the same lines here.No news on the sources of funding. Regardless, these ads will irritate all the right ...
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Annals of advertising: The "climate skeptics" party in ...
Harry Reid's health care bill includes a dancing plethora of new taxes, forcing the Obama administration to consider the important distinctions between broken promises, predictions that happen not to come true, and bare-faced lies. Among them is a new federal tax on comestic surgery, not simply ...
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tigerhawk.blogspot.com - 2 days ago
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Watch this selection from Eric Holder's Senate testimony
on the use of the civilian criminal justice system
to try jihadis who kill Americans. Leaving the substantive arguments to Andy McCarthy, who has just been beating the hell out of them over at ...
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The prosecution of KSM: It is obvious Eric Holder has ...
In the "fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me" department, the Maersk Alabama was not boarded by pirates:Somali pirates attacked the Maersk Alabama on Wednesday for the second time in seven months and were thwarted by private guards on board the U.S.-flagged ship who fired off ...
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The deal proposed by the UN regarding nuclear fuel has been rejected by Iran:Iran's foreign minister on Wednesday said his country would not export its enriched uranium for further processing, effectively rejecting the latest U.N. plan aimed at preventing Tehran from building nuclear ...
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Lobbying as metaphor: An argument against the "public option" via pick-up basketball.Not the single most politically correct video you are going to see this week -- or is it legitimate given the president's own use of basketball on the campaign trail? -- but the point is well-taken.
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...what does Tom Hayden know that we do not?One man's dream is surely another's nightmare.
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Talk about your inconvenient factoids. How does anybody with two brain cells to rub together, even if he did go to Harvard, think that anywhere on the inside of the earth has a temperature of "several million degrees." And how did Conan not call him on it?I suppose it is just as well that Gore ...
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The heavy travel continues apace so no promises here, but Edward Luttwak's most recent effort in Foreign Policy is worth your time. He suggests that if the United States wishes to retain its status as the indispensible power (an open question in the age of Obama), it needs to emulate the ...
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It is at least hideous that Christmas ads are already running on television, but this one stands out as the best I've seen so far:How do you not like that ad?
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Am I the only one who just noticed the ads for the Reebok "EasyTone" shoe, which allegedly produce "better legs and a better butt with every step"? Who could be against that?
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tigerhawk.blogspot.com - 5 days ago
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Paul Kedrosky built up a nice chart of
the ratio of unemployed people per job listing, with
the sucking chest wound that is Detroit on the right side of the graph. Kedrosky headlined the Detroit number in his post, but take a look at the robust ...
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Where the jobs are, and are not
If you are an investor, director, or employee, beware CEOs who "win" personal business awards.Compensation, status, and press coverage of managers in the United States follow a highly skewed distribution: a small number of “superstars” enjoy the bulk of the rewards. We evaluate the impact of ...
