Unca Darrell

JUNE 30 / Kodachrome (1936-2009)

KODACHROME gets a nice obit from the Wall Street Journal. Good bits:

[Kodachrome's] demise calls for a send-off more ceremonial than just a quote from the Paul Simon lyric.

JUNE 30 / Tea party speech by Ted Cruz

TED CRUZ is running for Texas attorney general. Here is his speech at the Fort Bend County tea party:

JUNE 29 / Signs of a failing revolution

STRATFOR's unconventional wisdom on Iran:

JUNE 29 / Sounds right to me

CRITIC BENJAMIN IVRY has blistered the 13th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition.

JUNE 26 / The WSJ takes down Chronicle editorialists' favorite state, California (along with New York and New Jersey)

PRESIDENT OBAMA has bet the economy on his program to grow the government and finance it with a more progressive tax system. It's hard to miss the irony that he's pitching this change in Washington even as the same governance model is imploding in three of the largest American states where it has been dominant for years -- California, New Jersey and New York.

JUNE 26 / In case you did not hear BHO's cold answer or Rush's takedown

FROM Wednesday night's ABC infomercial for Obamacare (lightly edited):

JUNE 25 / David Edgar Hancock (March 26, 1970 - June 25, 2000)

IN 1999 -- a lifetime ago, it now seems -- four Kingwood High School students, young women, started robbing convenience stores. They called themselves the "Queens of Armed Robbery."

JUNE 25 / The Texas Watchdog story you've been hearing about

HOUSTON MAYOR Bill White was informed nearly a year and a half ago that a nonprofit arm of the Houston Airport System was heavily involved in building and running airport facilities in several other countries, records show.

The rest of the story . . .

JUNE 25 / One-by-one, some journalists will admit the obvious. Here's one.

PHIL BRONSTEIN, "Bronstein at Large: Love or lust, Obama and the fawning press need to get a room," sfgate.com, June 8, 2009:

This guy [meaning President Obama] is good. Really good. And, frankly, so far, we [meaning the press] are not.

JUNE 24 / UPDATED: There's right. There's wrong. And there's wrong and darn proud of it.

UPDATE: The Wall Street Journal today published a good analysis of how hard it is to estimate the number of uninsured people in America: Carl Bialik, "The Unhealthy Accounting of Uninsured Americans." 

The Census Bureau estimates that the number of uninsured amounts to 45.7 million people. [Unca D: Note: It's "people," not (as the Chronicle would have it) "Americans."] But the agency might be overcounting by millions due to faulty assumptions. Another problem: That 45.7 million figure includes undocumented immigrants, even though they aren't likely to be covered under new laws. [Unca: The number also includes millions of documented immigrants.] 

NOW BACK to our regularly scheduled rant:

As I have explained four times before, the numbers in each of the following statements from Houston Chronicle editorial are demonstrably false. The Chronicle knows the numbers are false, but repeats them anyway. What does that tell you?