Rand Paul's Victory

Rand Paul is the GOP candidate for Senator in Kentucky!  Yiiippppeee!  His speech is just awesome. And who can doubt that, to recall a quote I heard somewhere: something's rotten in Denmark. And long live freedom!

Mitchell Langbert's Blog Exceeds 200,000 Independent Visits in 26 Months

I don't think of this blog as mass media and generally I get between 100 and 200 visits per day.  My readers are a mixture of people who surf in through links to various topics, friends, former students, people with whom I worked on the Obama birth certificate issue two years ago and others whom I know. This past week, though, demonstrates the amazing power of the Internet.  One post concerning the use of hay to soak up oil has been attracting over 5,000 visits per day and over 10,000 on two days, with better than 50,000 visits in the past week to that page.  I am not sure how that worked.  Several major sites picked up the story and linked to that page.  But according to my site meter the majority of visits have been from e-mail links.  I'm not technologically savvy and so have had trouble piecing this phenomenon together.  I must thank Contrairimairi for forwarding that video to me.

I wish the large number of vistors were to take a look at the rest of my blog, but only about six percent have.  In any case, 200,000 visits since March '08 amounts to an average of 7,695 per month.  That's  more than the annual circulation of most academic journals.  Let us hope for many more phenomenal successes in the years to come.

Cartoon Reveals Why Obama Administration Is Snake Oil

Joe Toscano forwarded this 1948 cartoon that is featured on the National Juggernaut site. There is more sense in it than in the entire City of Washington.

Socialism In Extremis: Greek Economy, Newsweek Head for Hades

In February 2009 Newsweek claimed that "we are all socialists now."  Prime Minister George Papandreou and the Greek government could not help but agree.  Now Newsweek is following Greece to socialist Hades.

Big Journalism.com reports that socialist Newsweek, following socialist Greece, is headed for bankruptcy:

"Despite staff cuts, Newsweek has remained a drag on its parent company (The Washington Post), which is also struggling with ad declines at its namesake newspaper...Newsweek is pretty much dead, and now the only question is who’s going to rouge the corpse for a few more years, if anybody, to keep its collection of Morning Joe talking heads with at least the fig leaf of meaningful employment before the final axe falls...At $5.95 per issue, Newsweek is hardly a bargain. Newsweek is your father’s magazine, and no amount of reinvention could fix that..."  

I disagree.  Were the editors of Newsweek more imaginative, they could have found a way to survive.  Newsweek's unimaginative socialist ideology is matched by its unimaginative marketing strategy.  Just as new media is re-conceptualizing the news, so might have the Democrats at Newsweek.  Back in February 2009 I urged Newsweek to move to France.  Perhaps Hades would have been a better bet.