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Megan McArdle: …every single voter who is benefitting from a government program right now not only wants to continue benefitting, but believes they have a moral right to do so. Word. On Thursday, I spent eight long hours at a public hearing. The subject: Wisconsin’s proposed state budget. The testimony fell into one or more […]
Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget plan is either a few days old or several years old now, depending on whether you’ve been paying attention to him since he first won election. So far, reaction falls into a few basic categories: It’s a horrific (and probably fascist) attack on the elderly, the poor, America, childhood, and rainbows; […]
Sorry Tea Partiers, but the GOP won this budget battle despite that you didn’t get all you wanted, this was a major GOP win. In fact, treating it otherwise endangers further cuts and bigger budget wins. If the drive to cut the budget stops now, it might be YOUR fault! What is that you say? […]
My son asked me “Is Princeton a good school?” I didn’t quite know how to answer that. It’s an old school. It’s a school with a great reputation. It’s expensive. It has its pick of the nation’s best students. It also employs Paul Krugman and Peter Singer. What!? You don’t know who Peter Singer is, […]
The Democrats and Republicans reached a deal to avoid shutting down the government and everyone seems to see it differently. Did the Republicans win or did the Democrats? Was a great start to getting the budget under control or not even a drop in the bucket? Here’s the reality; Democrats believe we should be spending […]
That’s the conclusion of the Washington Post’s Dan Baltz As the midnight Friday deadline loomed for a possible government shutdown, and politicians continued their rhetorical war of words, a larger message went out to the rest of the country: Washington is still broken. Unfortunately, Dan never quite says “why” Washington is still “broken.” But, is […]
Mark Landsbaum at the Orange County Register finds a big Woopsie! from climate “scientists” Global warming is a lot like everything else. There are pretty easy ways to tell when you’re being conned or at least whether the ones making claims know what they are talking about. For example, one way to know whether a […]
The projection and hypocrisy that typify the left have been taken to new extremes by the aptly named congresscritter Louise Slaughter (D-NY), who shrieks that Republicans have come to Congress “to kill women” by slowing down the firehouse of taxpayer money gushing into the highly profitable baby-killing industry. “I went through this as co-chair of […]
If it were up to Democrats, ambulance-chasing con artist John Edwards (a.k.a. Silky Pony, a.k.a. the Breck Girl) would have been Vice President of the United States. Instead, he may soon find his way to where he belongs: prison. After living the high life on $zillions stolen from doctors through the bogus malpractice lawsuits his […]
In yet another incident that goes to show why government unions should be made illegal as they once were, we find a government union chief so enraged that he and his members might have to tighten their budget belts — like every other American has had to — that he exploded into a charge that […]
For some unexplained reason a drunken campaign worker for the Tim Pawlenty Presidential Exploratory Committee was found at a Polk County, Iowa Family’s back door at 3AM on Wednesday morning. Ben Foster was arrested and ended up in the Polk County jail after the Steward family called police about a drunken intruder trying to get […]
Hopefully by the time you read this Congress will have reached a deal on the budget. Despite the hyperbole coming from the likes of Harry Reid, the truth is this. The budget was supposed to be passed this past October. The Democrats were fully in charge. But they didn’t pass one because they didn’t want […]
Apparently, Grist writer David Roberts (who’s going for the Commander Ricker look) missed the memo on the “new tone”: Nothing will change until greens mount some primary challenges and collect some scalps So, 350.org and 1Sky are uniting. Interesting news! I was particularly struck by this bit from Bill McKibben and Betsy Taylor’s post: We […]
Oh, wait, sorry, the headline for Dan Balz’s Washington Post opinion piece says “style,” not “skills.” Surprised? I’m not. Kinda hard to discuss skills that a person lacks. One would think that a former community organizer would posses some leadership skills, yet, I suppose whipping up some people who are agitated to begin with is […]
You’d think the first requirement for a source of energy that’s going to replace coal, oil, or natural gas would be that the new source of energy could actually keep the lights on. However, when it comes to wind power, no one seems to worry about such petty concerns. Yet, the reality is that unless […]
After the Republicans hammered the unions in Wisconsin, all we heard was how it was apocalypse now time for the GOP. Oh boy, the Republicans really blew it by making the unions angry! Of course, the unions fight the GOP tooth and nail in every election and despite generally favorable polling for the unions, it […]
One of the problems with getting involved in a country militarily is that the whole business has a tendency to take on a life of its own, one that you don’t always expect, particularly if it’s not clearly defined. Welcome to mission creep, boys and girls. …This time around, Obama has bungled the whole thing […]
Defense officials slammed the brakes on any broad participation Thursday, with Defense Secretary Robert Gates saying there will be no American ground troops in Libya “as long as I am in this job.” — Associated Press I don’t want to try to insert Britain in some leading role where, as with so many of the […]
CHURCHVILLE, VA—The Wall Street Journal recently made a dreadful error in a news story. That’s “dreadful” as in causing consumers to dread the potential loss of the antibiotics we need to cure pneumonia, tuberculosis, and infected scratches. On January 10, the WSJ online told its readers that America’s hog farmers were overusing antibiotics in their […]
I’ve gotten a hold of the official Obama 2012 posters, set for release in June Idea via The Dark Knight.
Cross-posted from NewsReal’s That’s What She Said blog. Please follow us on Twitter and subscribe to our feed! Yet again, an oh-so-enlightened left-winger tries to discredit politically inconvenient rape allegations. By now you’ve heard the story of Iman al-Obeidi, the Libyan woman who was dragged off to prison after telling reporters of the vicious gang […]
The one nice thing about the illegal aliens Big Government deliberately allows to swamp our country is that until pernicious politicians like Obama and McCain manage to ram another amnesty through, they can’t collect welfare because they aren’t US citizens. Or maybe I’m wrong: Census Bureau data show that the share of immigrant-headed households (legal […]
From before he was even born, red diaper baby Barack Hussein Obama has always surrounded himself with some of the most nefarious characters imaginable, prominently including his primary role models, the militant communist and child-molesting pervert Frank Marshall Davis and the America-hating professional racist Jeremiah Wright. His taste in company hasn’t improved: The Honolulu Police […]
As some of you may remember I have been covering the anti-vote fraud efforts of True The Vote, a program created by the Texas-based King Street Patriots. They recently sent out a fund raising letter that almost immediately drew the notice of left wingers intent on destroying their anti-vote fraud work. This immediate response by […]
In a blow to the autonomy of the media it has been discovered that employees of two Old Media outlets are the happy beneficiaries of hundreds of thousands of federal dollars from an Obamacare slush fund. CBS and the Washington Post have both taken large payments from Obama’s Early Retiree Reinsurance Program (ERRP), with the […]
Better really, really, really late than never: Rush to Use Crops as Fuel Raises Food Prices and Hunger Fears The starchy cassava root has long been an important ingredient in everything from tapioca pudding and ice cream to paper and animal feed. But last year, 98 percent of cassava chips exported from Thailand, the world’s […]
Huh? He didn’t say that? That was just my eyes replacing “president” with “partier”, due to his actions over the past 2+ years? Oh. Sorry. My Bad. Anyhow, he’d have to spend a lot more time at East Carolina University if he wants to perfect his partying skills, but, moving on For the first time […]
Obama hates the oil industry, he’s blocking drilling in ANWR, he still has the clamps down on drilling in the Gulf — in other words, if it increases the price of oil, he’s in favor. If he were honest, Obama would simply make the case to the American people for high gas prices. But of […]
I’m all in favor of smart people breeding and I do think that over time, the higher conservative birth rate and the liberal lust for abortion will help tilt the political scales a bit our way. Still, some people take that line of reasoning further. For example, there are apparently a few people who believe […]
First of all, it’s worth noting that the budget that’s being fought over is the one that the Democrats neglected to pass last year, when they controlled the House, the Senate, and the Presidency. In other words, they could have easily passed a budget last year, but didn’t fulfill that basic responsibility because they were […]