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I wonder if they will ask the question “has the threat of ObamaCare made you turn away patients with Exchange insurance?” Of course, since only about 5 people have signed up through the Exchange, I guess that question wouldn’t be meaningful. How about “do you plan on continuing your practice once ObamaCare takes full affect?” […]
Last week, CNN resorted to psychics, astrologers and tarot-card readings in an effort to predict the economic future. Those of us who don’t commune with the spirit world are more concerned with the Greek debt crisis. One U.S. analyst said that the “downside” risk, if European leaders can’t come up with a bailout deal, “is […]
The government’s TSA rent-a-thugs have been hard at work — not catching terrorists, of course. Their security procedures aren’t designed to do that effectively. However, they are good at one thing: Harassing, humiliating, and traumatizing American citizens who have to be exposed to them in order to fly. This time, the TSA outdid themselves. News […]
Despite the fact that the Democrats want to actually increase spending right now, the GOP has been earnestly trying to get them to reduce spending in exchange for raising the debt limit. As you can imagine, that’s probably a difficult task that involves hours per day of basic economics, explaining the negatives of just printing […]
How does anyone listen to this story and think there’s nothing to worry about here? How does anyone hear this and think it’s healthy for America? It was imperfectly odd. It was strangely unsettling. It was uniquely American. On a balmy early Saturday summer evening, the U.S soccer team played for a prestigious championship in […]
Social media is more important than ever, blah, blah, blah. Measure of strength, blah, blah, blah. May disagree over how important this is, blah, blah, blah! Your mileage may vary, blah, blah, blah! Oh, and Ron Paul! Now, without further ado, a ranking of GOP presidential contenders (and some select “maybe they’ll runs”) based on […]
Five years ago I asked, “Is Google a utility?” : A utility, of course, is usually a “natural monopoly”; it provides some infrastructure-type product or service in a market where competition supposedly makes no economic sense. : Its profits are essentially assured but managed; its rates are regulated; it has little choice over with whom it may […]
Let us reflect a little on: what justice “copyright troll” Righthaven has wrought,: so far. : Wired weighs in on the latest Righthaven woes: A federal judge ruled Monday that publishing an entire article without the rights holder’s authorization was a fair use of the work, in yet another blow to newspaper copyright troll Righthaven. It’s not often […]
How was anything ever invented before government started “investing” in new technologies? One wonders these things, given the seriousness with which Keynesians seem to believe that if they don’t choose the economic winners and then throw large sums of money at them – other people’s money, of course – then there will be no innovation […]
Holy crap. Here I am, trying to enjoy a nice weekend when the sun is shining and my kids are home and there’s very little on our family calendar, when I suddenly notice this: Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser allegedly grabbed fellow Justice Ann Walsh Bradley around the neck in an argument in her […]
There is a jester of a Chicago Alderman named Ed Burke who back in the early 1990s made local radio audiences laugh by his plaintive plea of “what about the horses” on the floor of Chicago’s City Hall. He was worried that horses in downtown Chicago’s carriage trade were somehow being mistreated and so he […]
You may have read that President Obama is now quietly offering a quasi-amnesty for illegal immigrants in a cynical attempt to rebuild his voting base. Under his direction, new prosecution rules* put ICE agents in a bureaucratic box if they choose to prosecute illegals, with dozens of new, subjective guidelines. In essence, Obama is forcing […]
You know the drill: click on the link under each picture for more info. Sometimes the sites I link have a whole different angle on a story, too. Might be worth your time. Link: Brian J. Noggle Link: Flap Link: Bill Teach Link: I Own The World Link: Camp of the Saints Link: Paco. I’d […]
The Politico’s Mike Allen and Jim Vandehei start out in the right direction, but, quickly lose their way: Buzzkill: The problem with Jon Huntsman Hype From afar, it’s easy to get swept up by the hype: Jon Huntsman is accomplished, handsome, smart, and his civility message has appeal beyond the meat-eaters who dominate this early […]
(Sorry if this is a duplicate post–I searched for it on 6/24 and didn’t find it.) James Delingpole, “a writer, journalist and broadcaster who is right about everything,” at the UK Telegraph makes a disquieting discovery: And guess what these liberals believe the problem with Climate Change is? Go on: think of the most stupid, […]
The amazing story of Prince Jefri of Brunei “who has probably gone through more cash than any other human being on earth“. (The article has some NSFW language.)
“The rest of the country must be sick of us in Boston. We have all the champions. We have all the trophies. Sorry.: No brag, just fact.” Enjoy it while it lasts. Cross-posted from Newmark’s Door.
Starting next month the clock on your oven will probably be wrong. No, it won’t be broken, but the electric current it relies on to count the minutes will start deviating from the tried and true standard of 60 cycles per second. Since 1930, electric clocks have kept time based on the rate of the […]
I spent four hours at my Mom’s yesterday trying to organize her medicines. I am more gray now than I was before. My son, who was with me, kept saying “This is insane. This is insane.” The insanity operated at a lot of levels. Some of the insanity comes about because my mother likes her […]
So President Obama’s going to bring 30,000 or so military personnel home from Afghanistan just as soon as he’s done closing Guantanamo Bay. No, wait, he said next Summer. He’s going to bring 30,000 troops home by next Summer. Good idea? Militarily, I leave it to those with more information, knowledge, and experience than I […]
Once again St. Sabina, the “Catholic” Church on Chicago’s South Side, makes the news for race-baiting and down talking our U.S. Constitution. This time it is Chicago’s new Police Superintendent, Garry McCarthy, who appeared at the church and indulged his inner Father Pfleger with a rant on how the US is filled with racists and […]
You missed some Friday night fun if you didn’t go here. It all started when blogger friend Mark’s feet were held to the fire…in a loving, caring way, I’m quite sure…for his failure to return the toilet seat to its proper, feminine-friendly, downward position. We all know what the smart hubby does. He complies, quietly. […]
What we are supposed to infer from the article, of course, is that Mankind’s use of fossil fuels is going to heat up the planet so much that Mankind, along with all the cute and fuzzy bunnies, hell, all life on Earth, will be wiped out. Then it gets sciencey New scientific evidence supporting a […]
But, Syria would be hard work, and there is golfing to be done Witnesses and activists in Syria say at least 15 people were killed Friday when security forces fired on crowds as tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets nationwide in another round of demonstrations aimed at overthrowing President Bashar al-Assad. The […]
Unintended effects from government action, part 1,356,732: Myth 1: The Alternative Minimum Tax targets millionaires. Fact 1: While the Alternative Minimum Tax was originally created to target millionaires, today it falls most heavily on non-millionaires. Cross-posted from Newmark’s Door.
CBO Director Elmendorf testifies to Paul Ryan’s House Budget Committee that the CBO couldn’t score President Obama’s April budget message because . . . well, you know, it wasn’t really a budget.
Two excellent, unusual soccer goals: Zlatan Ibrahimovic for Ajax, 2007. (More on Ibra and more links to his goals in this interesting Slate piece.) Just this week, the goalie[!] for Canada’s U-17 team scored. (Link via Business Insider.)
Somehow I get the impression that our Community Organizer in Chief doesn’t take military matters terribly seriously. After announcing that he would effectively surrender in Afghanistan, but leave most of our troops there hanging in the breeze for awhile, he made a poorly prepared speech to a division that has been heavily involved in the […]
Civilization is coming unraveled in the city that gave us Barack Hussein Obama and much of his crew. But don’t be racist by noticing: Pardon the unintentional rhyme, but Chicago is under attack by packs of wild Blacks. (Paul Kersey is all over this.) They’re storming buses 15 at a time, beating White people with […]
Senator Ron Johnson (R, Wis.) commented in advance of the President’s speech on manufacturing and is here to tell President Obama, “the government doesn’t create jobs, it creates debt and it is the private sector that creates long-term, self-sustaining jobs.” Today the President is traveling to Pittsburgh to talk about manufacturing. As a person who […]