Americans Cut Back On Spending, But Don’t Worry, Salvation Is Nigh–UPDATED

The New York Times reports the cutback in consumer spending: When the final tally is in, consumer spending for the quarter just ended will almost certainly shrink, the first quarterly decline in nearly two decades. Many economists, who began the third quarter expecting modest growth, now believe the cutbacks are so severe that the overall […]

 

Senate Wants To Empower Parent Censorship

Found via Slashdot, Matt Lasar reports: The United States Senate has unanimously passed a bill that requires the Federal Communications Commission to explore what “advanced blocking technologies” are available to parents to help filter out “indecent or objectionable programming.” The “Child Safe Viewing Act” (S. 602) was sponsored by Senator Mark Pryor, Democrat of Arkansas. […]

 


Cowboys Fer Palin, Genuises With Like Totally Smart Genius IQ’s Fer Obama (Wait, is that redununundint?)

The latest tribute to Sarah Palin from an adoring fan: There is more truthiness here. Oh, wait, it’s a spoof, but it MUST be real, because “puckering elitist IQ pimp(s)” say so. And even more truth. This time, some helpful advice to Obama: Ah can’t help it. I luv Sarih Palin! Cross-posted at MelissaClouthier.com

 


When The Government Is Immoral

“Through the Mercy of Fools all Justice is lost.” -Nachmanides on Deut. 7:16 Dan Friedman sent that to me and it landed in my inbox along with the best article that R.S. McCain has written (yet). It’s about the immorality of the American taxation system. You’ll want to read the whole thing: Whereas transactions in […]

 

Is There Anything Worse Than Smug Senators?

The Senate’s version of water-boarding: Gloat to the press about their own wonderfulness and drown the American public in their sanctimony. Ugh, I’m still coughing up sputum. (I’m referring to the Bailout they all seem so proud of right now.) So a poll. What’s worse? Watching The View women blab about Barack Obama’s sexiness or […]

 

Are Democrats More Honest?

What if Ronald Reagan was wrong? He championed supply-side economics and through his policies created deficit spending. (And yes, I acknowledge the trade-off of bringing down the Soviet Empire was worth it in the near term, but what did that action create in the long-term?) It seems self-evident that tax and spend is wrong. The […]

 

Let Sarah Palin Be

I didn’t see the whole Couric interview. Evidently, Sarah Palin didn’t perform well and even conservatives are cringing. I buy it. The part I saw, made me wonder if she was sitting on a bed of nails, she was so nervous. Coached and careful, defensive and self-doubting, she clearly just wanted to get through it […]

 



What The Heck? The Bailout Failed?

I take a nap and this is what happens while I’m sleeping? Good. Grief. My natural instinct is to say that it’s good when new laws don’t get passed. Gridlock is a beautiful thing because laws tend to make the average person’s life harder. So the bailout plan failed. I should be ecstatic. Certainly, the […]

 

The Housing Crisis Creates A Socialist Utopia–Just As Obama Envisioned It

Here’s how the Democrats “solved” the housing crisis a few years back: And then there is this video that covers visually, what I’ve written about before, about what caused the financial crisis: Here’s an inconvenient truth: President Bush was smarter than Nancy Pelosi about this housing mess (not saying much, but still). John McCain tried […]

 

Liveblogging the Debate

Here we go….. Okay weird thing, what happened to Obama’s eyebrows? He looks like he has eyebrow shadows. Obama pins the problem on McCain. Um…. Now, why isn’t McCain bringing up his solutions? Obama says that two years ago he warned about the problem. Really? When? I’ve seen the McCain legislation, what did Obama do? […]

 

LANDSLIDE!

Since I’m nearly always wrong about this thing, I want to reiterate what I’ve predicted before: McCain will win in a landslide. Maybe this time I’ll be right. Cross-posted at MelissaClouthier.com

 

Making Sense Of The Financial Deal

House Republicans “rebelled“, eh? Maybe it’s because their constituents are burning up the phone lines in all out mutiny. The Republicans have acted like Democrats “lite” for years now. I have a newsflash for the Republicans, including McCain, about this whole bill: It feels wrong to fiscal conservatives and taxpayers generally. My most liberal of […]

 


The Myth Of The Free Press

Yesterday, on the Blog Talk Radio show with John Hawkins, he asked me whether the press should just give up the pretense and be open about their bias. My response was that intelligent people could perceive a bias already, but that yes, the press should just be open about their bias and be done with […]

 

Bailing On The Bailout Bill–UPDATED

It’s 700 Billion. Today. Assuming…do I need to finish that sentence? It’s getting porkified. It rewards stupidity. It ties Republicans to Bush-Pelosi. It turns American banking into a socialist enterprise. It means trusting Paulson. It has Democrats licking their FDR-loving, bacon dripping chops. It will, somehow, make those who get paid for failure, even richer. […]

 

McCain’s Instincts

So, I spend the morning telling my friend that Barack Obama is a terrible choice for president even though I have reservations about McCain. And then I read this which quotes George Will who says: Conservatives who insist that electing McCain is crucial usually start, and increasingly end, by saying he would make excellent judicial […]

 

“Sexist Men Make More Money”

Well, not exactly. Technically, it’s men with “traditional gender attitudes” make more money. That makes me wonder if men with those attitudes demand more money because their wives don’t work. Or, is it that employers are sexist and pay men with wives at home more because they know the family has one income? True story: […]

 

$700 Billion With A “B” Of Your Money

As the stock market tanks, I ponder whether Wall Street should be allowed to crash or not. And, have you noticed oil is up $25/barrel? Should the Fed bailout Wall Street? Yes No    pollcode.com free polls UPDATED: If you oppose the bailout, does this, from Megan McArdle, change your opinion? Have you considered what […]

 

Smear YouTube Videos Made By Professionals Associated With Obama’s Campaign?

Rusty Shackleford makes a good case that that’s exactly what has happened: Extensive research was conducted by the Jawa Report to determine the source of smears directed toward Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin. Those smears included false allegations that she belonged to a secessionist political party and that she has radical anti-American views. Our […]

 

Tennessee Democratic Congressman’s Son Hacked Sarah Palin’s Email–UPDATED AGAIN: Connection with Obama’s Campaign Manager?

Confederate Yankee extends mercy to the kid with a depressive disorder who hacked Sarah Palin’s Yahoo account. That is overly kind. Were this miscreant a Republican, he’d be tarred and feathered and we’d be hearing about how it’s no wonder a Republican had problems with depression, but put him in jail with the same law […]

 

Democrat Senator Chuck Schumer’s Role In America’s Financial Crisis

In July, I wrote about New York’s Democrat Senator Charles Schumer’s loose lips being a reason for the current banking crisis–remember he blabbed about IndyMac’s viability and people withdrew 1.3 Billion dollars the next day, guaranteeing its failure. Well, he’s been running his big mouth again, this time on the Senate floor where he said […]

 



Isn’t This Rape?

Glenn Reynolds links to some guy who got caught “having sex” if you could call it that with his comatose wife. Here’s what the guy’s attorney said: Johnson’s lawyer, T. Christopher Kelly, of Madison, said his client should be left alone. “Mr. Johnson deeply loves his wife,” Kelly said. “He’s spent every day talking to […]