Year: 2011

This Week in Automotivators, May 30-June 5

Posted on by TrogloPundit

Just a few stories from the past week, some of which I blogged about, and some of which I didn’t. Click the link under each picture if you’re not sure what the hell I’m talking about. Link: Pundit Press. Link: Hot Air. Link: TrogloPundit. Link: TrogloPundit. Link: Charlie Sykes. Link: Smitty. Link: Grandpa Steve. Link: […]

 

Who’s Watching As White House Collects Emails (For Illegal Campaigning?)

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Official White House website has a questionable new addition. When you land on the White House main page a notice fills your screen asking you kindly if you’d like to supply them with your email address so that they can send you “periodic updates from President Obama and other administration officials.” Well, isn’t that […]

 

What to do about Medicare: the heart of the controversy

Posted on by Craig Newmark

Here’s Michael Hiltzik, columnist for the Los Angeles Times: To be charitable, the free-market rationale for sticking enrollees with more of the bill is that as consumers with “skin in the game” they’ll be more discriminating about the services and treatments they demand, thus holding down costs. Unfortunately, the consumer-driven model has been widely discredited: […]

 

GOP Beltway Insiders Charles Krauthammer and George Will Describe the Substantive Reasons Sarah Palin Can’t Win

Posted on by Doug Ross

Charles Krauthammer‘s substantive reasons that Sarah Palin can’t win in 2012: I think it would make no sense for her to run. I think her chances of winning the nomination are small. The chances of winning the general election are probably nil. I think, for the same reasons you articulated, 60 percent negatives. That’s almost […]

 

Poor Economy Will Shift Obama 2012 Campaign Economy Plan

Posted on by William Teach

Good news! He’ll do what he does best: lie and Blame Others After months of relatively robust job growth, President Barack Obama and his team must now reckon with the reality that the economy probably won’t be on firm ground during the 2012 campaign – and that he must temper some of the Morning-in-America optimism […]

 

Even Lefty Website Mediaite Says Breitbart Did Not Lie about Weinergate

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

One of the things that the left has lighted upon to explain away the behavior of Democrat Congressman Anthony Weiner with his Weinergate Twitter mess is typical of the way leftists try to misdirect a debate away from the failings of their own side. Instead of keeping focus on the failures of Weiner to put […]

 

“20 Impossible Interview Questions From Facebook, Goldman And Citigroup”

Posted on by Craig Newmark

Good thing I’m not looking for a job at these places. Samples: Citigroup: “What’s your strategy at table tennis?” Towers Watson: “Estimate how many planes there are in the sky.” Jane Street Capital: “What is the smallest number divisible by 225 that consists of all 1s and 0s?”

 

Liberal Bummer: Obama Can’t Do Anything To Fix Economy In Short Term

Posted on by William Teach

News for liberals: he hasn’t been able to do anything in the long term, either. He’s had over two years. He had a compliant Congress for the first half of his term. What they’ve done hasn’t worked. But, of course, what the Liberals are worried about is not an actually better economy, but, an economy […]

 

The news from Cali isn’t getting any better

Posted on by Craig Newmark

“Riverside’s Hillcrest High: What if they built a school and nobody got to go?” A $105 million high school–yes,: $105 million–will be unused for at least one year. Walter Russell Mead plays taps. (And proposes a solution I haven’t seen before–split the state up into five parts. Interesting.) And here’s one new, interesting reason for Cali’s […]

 

Mitt Romney’s Climate Change (Hoax) Belief Continues

Posted on by William Teach

And here we go again Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney broke with Republican orthodoxy on Friday by saying he believes that humans are responsible, at least to some extent, for climate change. “I believe the world is getting warmer, and I believe that humans have contributed to that,” he told a crowd of about 200 at […]

 

Bailouts for Big Business, Bankruptcies for the Middle Class

Posted on by Rachel Alexander

While the Obama administration has been busy bailing out irresponsible financial institutions and big business, individual homeowners have been left with little relief, with many forced to file for bankruptcy. About the only relief Obama has doled out for the rest of us is the Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP).:  Launched in early 2009, it […]

 

The circumcision ban on the San Francisco ballot is driven by blatant antisemitism

Posted on by Bookworm

I often say I’m shocked by something that crosses my computer screen, but that’s not really true. I mean, I probably sort of shocked insofar as I’m surprised that someone has behaved according to type, but in an extreme way, or that something I’ve long assumed would happen actually did happen (or, in a surprising […]

 

Big Government Impedes Removing Carp From Flooded Farm

Posted on by Dave Blount

As bad as flooding can make life for farmers, things can always get worse, thanks to Big Government: Bureaucrats have added insult to injury for a corn farmer south of Montreal whose fields have been damaged by near-record flooding. Martin Reid says he’s been forced to buy a fishing licence to remove carp that are […]

 

Big Government Decrees Data Collectors in All New Cars

Posted on by Dave Blount

As you might recall, our rulers have been scheming to tax us for each mile we drive, in order to defray the cost of their never-ending frivolous spending, to save the polar bears from the imaginary global warming menace, to keep their boot on the neck of the struggling economy, and most importantly, to limit […]

 

Evil Confederate, German, Nazi, Racists Invades Mind of The Atlantic Writer

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Atlantic’s Yoni Appelbaum has a troubled little mind. He seems to be an excitable sort, too. I say this because during this 150th anniversary of the American Civil War he strangely sees evil Confederate, German, Nazi, racists at Civil War events. He might want to see a therapist about this. Either that or he’s […]

 

L.A. Times Tim Rutten, Historical Idiot

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Tim Rutten is a left-wing, hack writer from L.A. He is always good for contemporary left wing trope but the other day we discovered that he is also good for the sort of uninformed blathering that leftists of his ilk pretend is American history. Chiefly that of America’s religious history and the so-called “wall of […]

 

Your Taxes Paying Government Union Members NOT to Work, Part Two

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

At a hearing on Capitol Hill Wednesday, it was revealed that federal employees spent nearly 3 million hours of official, taxpayer paid time on union activities in 2009. This cost the treasury $129 million, an increase of $8 million over the expenditures in 2008. The report that fueled the hearing (see .pdf) was prepared by […]

 

Sigourney Weaver Tells Us The Secret To Stopping Globull Warming: Abortion On Demand

Posted on by William Teach

Isn’t it funny how the methods to deal with anthropogenic global warming always seem to revolve around Someone Else Doing Something? Ms. Weaver, a wonderful actress, is over at the Huffington Post giving us A Secret Weapon for Fighting Climate Change: Empowering Women Over the past month, I have been speaking to women in Canada […]

 

Moody’s: A Debt Fueled Economic Collapse Could Be Closer Than You Think. Much Closer.

Posted on by John Hawkins

If America loses its AAA rating, the cost to finance the debt will explode. It would represent a running leap into a debt spiral that the U.S. might have trouble pulling out of short of bankruptcy. Moody’s is now warning that the debt limit fight could lead to exactly that sort of disastrous leap. The […]

 

Intolerant Atheists And The Judges Who Overrule The First Amendment For Them

Posted on by John Hawkins

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. So some intolerant, Christian-hating atheists got a bee in their […]

 

Obama and the Coming World Tax Organization

Posted on by Dave Blount

At least when government metastasizes out of control in liberal states like California, people can escape bankruptcy by leaving for freer states that won’t crush them with taxes. This gets harder when grotesquely excessive government is imposed at the federal level. It will get harder still if Comrade Obama and his coconspirators at the Organization […]