I Guess I’m a Little Disappointed That He Subscribed in the First Place
Donald Rumsfeld tweeted this today: If you didn’t get a chance to read Krugman’s blog post from the Fish Wrap Times yesterday, you didn’t miss much. If you want to read it to see what a low-life this guy is, here you go: The Years of Shame
Let Me Guess – Unexpected? Unemployment Rises Back to 9.0%
There was some good news to go along with the increase in unemployment: 244,000 jobs were added. Not great, but it’s something. From Bloomberg: Payrolls expanded by 244,000 last month, the biggest gain since May 2010, after a revised 221,000 increase the prior month, the Labor Department said today in Washington. The jobless rate climbed to [...]
Wallet Missing for 40 Years Found – and Returned to Owner
It’s good to know people will go out of their way to help someone else out, even if it’s something as seemingly insignificant as a empty-of-cash wallet. NEW YORK — A New York man whose wallet disappeared from his jacket pocket has gotten it back — 40 years later.Rudolph Resta was working for The New [...]
Krugman on Wisconsin: Wrong, Wrong, Wrong.
I don’t know why I do this to myself, but while skimming an article in the New York Times, I couldn’t resist clicking on a link to Paul Krugman’s latest column. After wrapping a couple of turns of duct tape around my noggin, I clicked away. Opining on the budget showdown in Wisconsin, Krugman tries [...]
Let Me Guess: He Consulted with Krugman
Image via Wikipedia The Wall Street Journal reports that Barack Obama (*DfOaLG), in his State of the Union speech, will call for…wait for it…increased spending. He must have been reading Paul Krugman’s weekly praises of Keynesian stimulus in the New York Times – Mr. Obama will argue that the U.S., even while trying to reduce [...]
Because, I Guess, Someone Must Care
Was reading a post in the editorial section of the NYT, and noticed this on the right column. Does anyone really care whether Bone-O saw Spiderman? I guess they must.
Inequality of Wealth Makes Us Sad – So We Really Need Punishing Taxation, or Something
Nicholas Kristof opined yesterday in the New York Times on all the nasty effects that inequality of wealth has on Americans. You see, because America is a system where there are haves and have-nots, this results in all kinds of nasty side-effects, and – it makes people sad. There’s growing evidence that the toll of [...]
Absurdity: N.Y. Judge Says 4 Year-Old Can Be Sued
At what age is a child presumed to be “prudent?” When does she become capable of understanding her responsibilities, as it relates to the rights of others? At what age can he be held accountable before the law for his actions? In New York City, it’s four years. Seriously, that’s what a judge ruled in [...]
Examining Tea Party Myths: Ross Douthat
Ross Douthat of the New York Times wrote an interesting piece examining some oft-bandied liberal myths about the Tea Party. He begins with a re-hash of the study done by Emily Ekins, a UCLA grad student, who went to the big Tea Party rally in D.C. about a month ago, and took pictures Image via [...]
NYTimes: The Toxic Tea Party Message
I read this editorial (free subscription required) earlier in the day, but didn’t have a chance to comment on it until now. I’m not really surprised to see this sort of editorializing by liberals, especially the NYT, but I am continually mystified by the crazy generalities they use to describe folks associated with the Tea [...]
The environmental disaster that, well, wasn’t
It appears that even the lame-stream media (LSM) is starting to get it: there isn’t really an “environmental disaster” in the Gulf of Mexico The Deepwater Horizon oil-rig explosion was a terrible tragedy for the workers who were killed and their families. The resulting oil spill, touted nightly on news reports with dramatic “Day x” [...]
