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40) Apparently, our jobless rate is so darned low because a bunch of people gave up on ever finding a job again. So consider us only halfway to Mad Max at Thunderdome and conducing cage fights to determine which of the remaining humans gets the privilege of eating tuna fish out of a can. Given […]
I never imagined what being 40 would feel like, because it never occurred to me that I’d ever be 40. I didn’t think I wouldn’t be, mind you. It was just too boring to enter my brain, and it seemed like forever from now. –: Stephanie Dolgoff Been there, done that, got the postcard. Haven’t we […]
Republicans have been forced into a Hobson’s choice of either letting the Bush tax cuts expire for everyone or agreeing to a tax hike on the top 2 percent of income earners (not to be confused with “the rich,” who have already made, inherited or married their money). If Republicans object to the Democrats’ hitting […]
Who exactly were the rich who, as the president said, were not “paying their fair share”? The rapper Jay-Z (net worth: nearly $500 million)? The actor Johnny Depp (2011 income: $50 million)? Neither seems to have heard the president’s earlier warning that, “at a certain point you’ve made enough money.” Could both zillionaires simply have […]
SINGAPORE — While the U.S. unemployment rate “dropped” to 7.7 percent last month — a figure even The Washington Post acknowledged was due “…in large part because the labor force fell by 350,000…” — here in this modern and prosperous city-state of slightly more than 5 million people, unemployment is practically nonexistent. A taxi driver […]
When you think about it, it’s amazing that the high-minded swells at the University of California didn’t unveil a new logo sooner. The old logo, which will continue to appear on diplomas and official letters, features the school motto, “Let there be light.” Ancient. An English translation of a Latin phrase. And a book. Dead-tree […]
Is Barack Obama bluffing when he threatens to go over the fiscal cliff if Republicans refuse to agree to higher tax rates on high earners? Some analysts think so. Keith Hennessey, a former top staffer for the Bush White House and Senate Republicans and a veteran of budget negotiations, argues that Obama’s whole second term […]
“Come on sweetheart, I’m due for my appointment.” She was putting together her outfit while waiting for her husband. It was hard to keep everything where it should be now that she was visibly pregnant. He walked to the front door slowly, looking vaguely ill. She watched him for a moment before inquiring, “Are you […]
The Federal Reserve plans to keep short-term interest rate near zero until unemployment drops below 6.5 percent and inflation reaches 2.5 percent. : This means given the current equations used to calculate those numbers, Fed interest rates will remain at current lows until mid-2015 or beyond. The Fed will also continue spending $85 billion a month […]
Usually liberals manage to diffuse the consequences of their moonbattery across the entire population, but occasionally they are forced to pay the piper themselves. For example: A Nebraska woman who claimed she was attacked by three men who carved anti-gay slurs into her arms and stomach was found guilty Monday of making a false report. […]
-By Warner Todd Huston William Kristol, Editor of the Weekly Standard, seems to have decided that retreat is the way forward for the Republican Party. In a new editorial that approaches a meltdown, the Fox commentator and consummate Washington insider essentially advised the GOP to just throw in the towel on these fiscal cliff talks […]
Fraud was not a bug but a deliberate feature of the staggeringly expensive looting spree known as the Pigford Pigout, by which any black person could collect $50,000 of reparations by claiming to be a farmer who was discriminated against by the federal government. On Document Dump Friday, the feds released a report entitled “Civil […]
I was coming down with something yesterday and it hit me full force today. I’m going to hit the bed all day, drink some OJ, recuperate and hopefully I should be back to normal tomorrow. In the interim, enjoy the other columnists, bloggers and links!
So glad that Team Obama cares about a civil society after he whipped up the crowd during an appearance in Michigan on Monday (Daily Caller) White House spokesman Jay Carney declined to condemn the increasing violence and threats by union members in Michigan, merely telling reporters Tuesday that “the president believes in debate that’s civil.” […]
Of course, The Hill doesn’t use my term, but the completely un-scientific phrase “climate change”, meant to denote that Mankind’s use of fossil fuels, such as lots of long fossil fueled flights from the People’s Republic of Brokeifornia to D.C., causes all weather events. And the Democratic Senator from the PRB (which is having a […]
I hate raising taxes. : I find high tax rates immoral. : However, we lost the election. : An increase in revenue is inevitable. : What’s perverse about this whole episode is that if we fall off the cliff — Democrats will get everything they want. They’ll get their tax increases, their revenue, and defense cuts. : They would complete […]
Yes, Republicans are in treatment after their catastrophic loss last November. : We kept our majority in the House due to gerrymandering, and we lost two seats in the Senate. : Romney’s loss was bad, but our inability to gain seats in the Senate was ignominious. : Democrats were tasked with defending twenty-three senate seats, and twelve of […]
Not so many moons ago, President Obama urged us all to “make sure that we are talking with each other in a way that heals, not a way that wounds.” He Who Heals advocated “a more civil and honest public discourse” in the wake of the January 2011 Tucson massacre. As usual, though, the White […]
PARIS — Is “killed by a drone strike” the new “alive and well”? If you pay close enough attention, it makes you wonder what’s really going on. Here’s how this charade usually goes: One or more major news organizations runs a story about some Middle Eastern terrorist being killed in a drone strike, usually in […]
With all the talk about taxing the rich, we hear very little talk about taxing the poor. Yet the marginal tax rate on someone living in poverty can sometimes be higher than the marginal tax rate on millionaires. While it is true that nearly half the households in the country pay no income tax at […]
Politicians claim they make our lives better by passing laws. But laws rarely improve life. They go wrong. Unintended consequences are inevitable. Most voters don’t pay enough attention to notice. They read headlines. They watch the Rose Garden signing ceremonies and hear the pundits declare that progress was made. Bipartisanship! Something got done. We assume […]
Suppose you saw a building on fire. Would you seek counsel from the arsonist who set it ablaze for advice on how to put it out? You say, “Williams, you’d have to be a lunatic to do that!” But that’s precisely what we’ve done: turned to the people who created our fiscal crisis to fix […]
In the scramble to make the GOP more diverse, a lot of people are looking at Asian Americans, whom many believe are a natural constituency for the party. I would love it if Asian Americans converted en masse to the Republican Party, but the challenge for Republicans is harder than many appreciate. President Obama did […]
President Obama’s popularity and his party’s political fortunes may not survive the fruits of his recent victory. If he cows the Republicans into giving him a tax increase on the upper brackets, he will lose the fig leaf he uses to disguise his true intentions. Until now, taxing the rich has been his answer to […]
In January 2009, just as the “Peter Schiff was Right” YouTube video that catalogued my previously derided predictions about a coming financial collapse was racking up views and attracting mainstream attention, a blogger and investment advisor named Mike Shedlock (aka “Mish”) saw an opportunity to make an unethical grab at my current and prospective clients […]
“I’m in the top two percent,” said Peter Schiff, CEO of Euro Pacific Capital, this week on CNBC. “Right now, I’m paying 45 percent of my total income in income taxes … You tell me, what’s fair about that when medieval serfs pay 25 percent, I’m paying half? I don’t care what the majority voted […]
Michigan is now the 24th right to work state in America. Public workers in Michigan are now free to work without being forced to pay legalized extortion to unions as a precondition of their employment. As union labor gathered by the thousands, Michigan’s legislature voted approval Tuesday to “right-to-work” legislation.: The House and the Senate […]
Good thing Obama’s media has diverted everyone’s attention from the government spending crisis to the issue of whether “the rich” should be looted even more aggressively. Otherwise the feds might have to cut back on crucial programs like this one: More than two dozen sea turtles described by the Associated Press as “stressed” by cold […]
Even as once great Britain’s eyes go dim, life is still good for the freeloaders who are bleeding it to death: While many families are worrying about how to afford Christmas this year, one jobless single mother has revealed she receives so much in benefits she has :£2,000 to spend on designer gifts, clothes and […]