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Why the [latest tragedy] Means We Must Support My Politics
Image via Wikipedia This is excellent. Saw a link to it on Popehat. It’s posted on Boing Boing. It’s an essay written after 9/11, mocking those that try to use tragedies as leverage to gain political capital. It is, like they say, classic – you could just save this and use it at the occasion [...]
If You’re a Taxpayer, These Charts Should Make You Mad
I present you with the charts, and a brief description. The article they’re from is by Deroy Murdock at National Review Online. Chart #1 – this is a depiction of the money-sucking Rube Goldberg contraption that’s supposed to bring health care to everybody, and lower costs (one question would be whose costs?). That’s right, it’s…ObamaCare. [...]
America’s Crisis of Confidence
Doctor Zero -without a doubt my current favorite writer- has a wonderful post on America’s crisis of confidence. He says we don’t believe in freedom any more. As we give over more and more control to the state, we leave less and less space for the exercise of liberty by individuals. If we don’t stem [...]
She Meant to Say “Big Fat Bonuses”
Video of Diane Denish, Democrat candidate for governor in New Mexico, talking in a debate about how her opponent is spending money:
Christine O’Donnell’s “Not a Witch” Ad Parodied
I thought Christine O’Donnell’s “I am not a witch” ad was pretty good, considering the circumstances. A week out from it, I’m not sure it scored a lot of points with the voters. It did, however, score points with folks who write comedy. Pundits have argued that leading a political ad with a statement like [...]
The Socialist
(via HotAir’s Green Room) A video by Ben and Caleb Howe. RedState describes it thus: The Socialist moved from the halls of academia to the offices of ACORN to a pew in Chicago, and eventually all the way to the oval office, all the while spurred on by the heady early days of a culture-changing [...]
Bill Clinton: “All they need now is the Mad Hatter”
Bill Clinton recently made a speech on behalf of a Democrat candidate in Maine, and made a point to disparage a couple of the female Republican candidates, referring to them as “that wrestling lady” and “that witch lady” (you know who he’s talking about). Hardy har – a barrel of laughs. I thought it would [...]
Does the Constitution Matter?
Image via Wikipedia Doctor Zero has another excellent post, in which he rebuts Richard Cohen’s assertion this week that the Tea Partiers have a “fatuous infatuation with the Constitution, particularly the 10th Amendment.” If you don’t know what it means, “fatuous” means foolish. He -and a lot of his like-minded friends- think this obsession with [...]
And, A MASTER’S DEGREE IN COMMUNICATION!
This is at once hilarious and painful to watch. Phil Davison is seeking the Republican nomination for Treasurer of Stark County – and HE IS NOT APOLOGIZING FOR HIS TONE TONIGHT! Watch and laugh, or cringe. It’s a like a seeing a car wreck that you know is going to happen: you just can’t look [...]
The “Anti-Establishment” Wave Has Crashed Ashore – Will it Drown the Republicans’ Chances?
A Tea Party-backed candidate defeated a RINO in a big upset in Delaware. The NRSC (the establishment) has backed eight losing candidates so far. The grass-roots, anti-establishment wave is having an impact on elections. The question remains, though: how will affect the Republicans’ chances of gaining control of one or both houses of Congress in [...]
Shai Gaba Umbala Shoombala OOM!
Interesting bits from around the web From Ace of Spades: The folks in Missouri apparently want to right to refuse Obamacare (by a 3 to 1 margin) Hey Paul Krugman, how does a stimulus multiplier of 0.8 sound? By way of Amateur Economist: You mean all of the stimulus money wasn’t used to produce jobs? [...]
Auto Bailouts, Taxes, ObamaCare, and Electric Lemons
Good stuff out there today: Amateur Economist – Nice deconstruction of E. J. Dionne’s Washington Post column praising Bush and Obama for the Detroit auto bailout: We Save the Auto Industry! Thanks for Nothin’ Don Boudreaux’s letter to the Wall Street Journal on the same topic, at Cafe Hayek – Successful Bailout? Doctor Zero’s take [...]
Econ 101 – Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader? – WSJ.com
Progressives flunk Econ 101. Libertarians score much higher. This is not really a surprise, if you consider the types of policies the left wants to implement, and the assumptions upon which they are based. Those assumptions don’t square well with the laws of economics. Daniel Klein examines how groups along the political spectrum answer some basic [...]
The Obama Administration’s Genius New Plan For Keeping Health Insurance Premiums Down
Obama administration apparatchik Kathleen Sibelius has sent letters to insurance-industry executives, warning them not to raise prices (ie. premiums and co-payments for seniors) in their Medicare Advantage bids for 2011. They are, instead, to “focus on price and quality…” (whatever that means). Apparently, the sheer force of her words is going to suspend the laws of [...]
