Links and Minifeatures 01 02 Wednesday

Carnival of The Capitalists

via Liberty Papers, The Media's Top 10 Economic Myths of 2007

Allow me to state that the airlines don't get off the hook entirely. How many flights are theoretically scheduled to depart at 8:00 AM? How many actually can? Now ask yourself how many are scheduled to arrive at peak times? Sequencing arrivals is a real trick - sequencing for LAX covers the whole of the southwestern United States. And even though there may be four parallel runways there, it's real tough when you have a twenty way tie.

My predictions for the Iowa caucuses: Someone will win for each of the two major parties. Whoever it is, the rest of the country loses.

Bills that came due, over at VDH's Private Papers.

December 2007 visits were up significantly from November, weirdly enough, and page views by visitors skyrocketed thirty percent! 60,021 visits, 757,248 page views (There were an additional 505,000 page views by automation, such as bots and web-crawlers). Running totals, 2,244,807 visits, 8,834,644 page views

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I recently read that Hello Kitty was going to start marketing to boys. I was thinking, "Yeah, right," but it appears someone has a suggestion which may make it happen.

Scrappleface has the best take on Huckabee's holier than thou dirty tricks.

Samizdata and Instapundit on Fred Thompson: "Too sane to be president."

I must disagree. I think he's sane enough to be a great President. Unfortunately, he's much too sane to be elected President.

Bill Whittle has posted another of his Magnificent Works, over at Eject! Eject! Eject! Make time to read them. Part I and Part II.