October 10, 2013
Hershey's First New Brand In 30 Years Launches In The United States
"The Hershey Company (HSY) announced it is launching a new confectionery brand in the United States called Lancaster. The new brand will feature a line of caramel soft cremes that will roll out nationwide in January." Via @DoreenHDickson, who also tweeted this link to oddly beautiful photos. [rdbrewer]
George Will, WaPo: When liberals became scolds
"The transformation of a murder by a marginal man into a killing by a sick culture began instantly — before Kennedy was buried." [rdbrewer]
Shock Video: Students blame Democrats, Obama for shutdown [rdbrewer]
Maggie Gallagher: To break the IRS’s wall of silence
"In the spring of 2012, NOM’s private tax-return data turned up splashed on the Web site of its chief political opponent, the Human Rights Campaign. The leak plainly came from the IRS.... But the IRS has stonewalled NOM’s efforts to find out what happened.... The NOM lawsuit may be able to break this stonewall." [rdbrewer]
Kevin Williamson: Our Hobbesian Left
"Contra the king’s decree, the Americans were not opposed to 'all lawful government.' They were opposed to particular acts of a particular government.... To say 'no' to tyranny is not to say 'yes' to anarchy." [rdbrewer]
The Independent: Alzheimer’s treatment breakthrough: British scientists pave way for simple pill to cure disease
"The compound works by blocking a faulty signal in brains affected by neurodegenerative diseases, which shuts down the production of essential proteins, leading to brain cells being unprotected and dying off." [rdbrewer]
AtlanticWire: AP retracts story about unctuous weirdo [rdbrewer]
At $634M, the Obamacare website cost more than pretty much every other website in the universe
Thanks for the links, Drudge. [rdbrewer]
Krauthammer: Obama administration using shutdown ‘to punish’ American people
"'The administration is using anything it doesn’t like as a way to punish the American people,' he continued.'“But there’s a larger issue here. And that is, as the state becomes larger and larger, the bureaucracy becomes stronger and more arrogant and independent....' He also says the left uses terms like "clean C.R." The GOP should use terms like "blank check" to counter it. [rdbrewer]
The Patriot Act’s author wants to dismantle the NSA’s phone and internet data collection
"On Wednesday, however, Wisconsin Republican Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner told an audience at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank in D.C., that he planned to introduce new legislation to 'end the bulk collection of American’s communications records by adopting a uniform standard for intelligence gathering under Section 215 of the Patriot Act.'" Also from TheDC: Wyden says NSA hurting economy, reputations. [rdbrewer]