The NY Times had an interesting piece a couple days ago focusing on the “lost generation” of workers in Europe. Essentially, there are no jobs for young people. The European economies are so bad that “young” includes people well into their 30s.
The Times, of course, doesn’t connect the dots so I’ll do it for them: [...]
As of December 3, HHS has issued waivers exempting employers, unions, etc. representing over 1.5 million people from ObamaCare. ObamaCare is so great that many of the same unions who pushed for it have asked to be excused (static PDF in case the link changes) from it.
As a bonus, it seems that ObamaCare revoked a [...]
I just want to take a moment to poke my head up from the law books to make a prediction of sorts: if Jerry Brown beats Meg Whitman for governor of California, what’s left of California’s economy is toast. Jerry Brown represents everything that’s wrong with California’s economy: massive debt, overspending, crushing tax burden and [...]
I’m always amused when the left falsely accuses conservatives of engaging in the very behavior that the left actually indulges in. A nice example was in today’s (still bankrupt) Inquirer.
At the lefty wanna-be-Glenn-Beck rally, one Peggy Brown gave us this piece of analysis:
“Fox News, that’s about as bad as you can get” and…conservative personalities Beck, [...]
I think our side can serve up a heaping plateful of We Told You So. ObamaCare will, indeed, raise the cost of healthcare.
You know conservatives are landing punches when the left starts trotting out the “conservatives are anti-intellectual” argument. The ever-predictable EJ Dionne pulled this one off the shelf today.
It’s not that we’re against the systematic study of ideas. We’re all for it. But for too many intellectuals “systematic study” involves “systematically ignoring” anyone to the right [...]
Mrs. Newbie Shooter once told me a story about a crusty old teacher who said she new the leftists had won when economics was pulled from the curriculum in New York. I bring this up because the Wall Street Journal had a great piece today quantifying just how poorly lefties understand economics.
The summary is this: [...]
Donna Brazile has a thoroughly inane piece over at CNN where she says the BP oil spill fiasco proves we need big government.
Of course, she never actually says what authority or resource the government lacked that would either have prevented the mile-deep blown well or allowed it to react better. Is it her contention that [...]
I had a letter published in today’s Inquirer. Amusingly, Mother Manifesto read the letter in the paper and said “yeah! right on!” before she noticed it was from her son.
It’s amazing how the people who claim to hear the echo of Jim Crow in the tea parties fail to hear the rumble of Marxism on [...]
Just weeks after ObamaCare has been signed into law we’re already starting to hear that the bill is going to raise the cost of healthcare. So it turns out the majority of Americans who were called reactionaries, racists, liars, homophobes, stupid, uneducated, violent and seditious for opposing it were, in fact, right.
Will the luminaries on [...]
Now boarding on track 1600, the Fiscal Train Wreck Express, making stops in Kickback Nebraska, Purchased Louisiana and a town near you! Amenities include IRS audits, statist coverage mandates, a crushing tax burden and fiscal instability. Ladies and gentlemen, please note a schedule change: this train will not be stopping at Freedom Junction. All aboard!
Congratulations to Susan McClaren, of Phoenixville, our latest Preening Twit Award winner for this example of leftwing mental puffery.
Imagine what it would be like to be able to see a doctor when one is not feeling well; not to fear care because of cost; and not to be funneled into the overburdened emergency room just [...]
If you ever read the Douglas Adams Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series you may recall that Adams pokes fun at mankind’s less intelligent tendencies by joking that we’re descended from professional telephone sanitizers exiled from another planet. I’m starting to wonder if he was on to something.
Behold, the California Bureau of Electronic and Appliance [...]
Borepatch has a nice post on progressivism (hat tip to Newbie Shooter). Here’s my current summary of progressive agenda:
1. Guarantee an expansive and virtually unfettered right of individuals to pursue all the meaningless distractions that modern life has to offer.
2. Restrict and regulate the areas of life that actually have real significance (freedom of expression, [...]
A simple observation to mark the occasion of Snowpocalypse II: I received a delivery today from UPS but not the Postal Service. Both are unionized but only one has the ethos of a for-profit company.
Coming on the heels of multiple huge snow storms, with another whopper on the way (to say nothing of the ClimateGate scandal, a now steady stream of revelations of errors in the IPCC plus potential ethical and legal problems among climate priests), the geniuses in the Obama (mis)administration are proposing to create a Climate Change [...]
New Jersey is a shining example of this. And there is finally some recognition of the fact that NJ is losing many of its wealthiest residents for blindingly obvious reasons: the taxes are too high and the business climate too hostile.
The left, of course, continues to be in denial about a basic fact of the [...]
There is just nothing I can say to prepare you for this. Enjoy.
I have seen repeatedly in the healthcare debate an argument from the left along the lines of “someone who is sick and uninsured isn’t really free”. I always thought that was a bizarre assertion. Well I recently read an article on the Progressive giant, John Dewey and that very formulation played a big role in [...]
The CRU hacking case just keeps getting better. Here is a detailed discussion of how the IPCC’s chart for 20th century temperatures in Australia completely contradicts the raw data. I’ll stop short of calling it fraud because that requires knowledge of motivations.
But I think the time has come for us to demand that all climate [...]