10-09-08

Victor Davis Hanson: How odd that all those boring lessons from our grandparents turn out to be true in the globalized, hip 21st century: Save your money. Don’t borrow what you can’t pay back. Look first at a man’s character, not his degrees. And if a promised return on an investment seems too good to be true, it probably is.

James Taranto: The Enron of Countries…”Iceland was 80 percent dependent on imported coal and oil in the 1970s and was among the poorest economies in Europe. Today, Iceland is 100 percent energy independent, and according to the International Monetary Fund is now the fourth most affluent nation on Earth.”–Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a CNN.com commentary, Aug. 25. “Iceland Teeters on the Brink of Bankruptcy: This volcanic island near the Arctic Circle is on the brink of becoming the first ‘national bankruptcy’ of the global financial meltdown.”–headline and lead paragraph, Associated Press, Oct. 7

Yikes: UNREGULATED sperm donation is leading to unusual situations in which the children of lesbians in Adelaide are mixing socially - creating a risk of incest.

Ed Morrissey: According to internal Soviet Union documents from the SALT-2 negotiations in 1979, Joe Biden effectively told Soviet negotiators not to worry about American rhetoric about human-rights concerns. 

More Hot Air from Ed: Obama’s campaign plane stinks…Literally.  And it’s not the only thing Dean Reynolds sees wrong with the Barack Obama campaign after covering it for the past year.  He recently spent time with the John McCain team for a change of pace, and it turned out to be a much different experience.

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