It’s a glorious read, especially the part where he points out that the state is a prime driver of it (h/t Protein Wisdom): First, the entitlement state exists primarily to transfer wealth regressively, from the working-age population to the retired elderly who, after a lifetime of accumulation, are the wealthiest age cohort. Second, big, regulatory… Read More George Will Takes Bernie Sanders to School
C.S. Lewis once wrote: Suppose one reads a story of filthy atrocities in the paper. Then suppose that something turns up suggesting that the story might not be quite true, or not quite so bad as it was made out. Is one’s first feeling “Thank God, even they aren’t quite so bad as that,” or… Read More TROLOLOLOLOLOL
Bureaucrats are generally dis-inclined to take the heat for politicians. The blue-on-blue is particuarly encouraging. Is this a function of Obama’s declining coattails, as donkeys seek distance in preparation for 2014? I wonder how long before Obama feels the need to throw Hillary — or some other mucky-mucks at State — under the bus? Jammie-Wearing… Read More I Do Believe Benghazi Just Flipped From “Not Going Away” to “Quite Uncomfortably Here”
“We had dead Americans! What does it matter if what we said caused it wasn’t what caused it at all? We were too busy saving the people who died!”
Last night at Ceaseless Ephemera, I coined a term for what the Washington Post and the Congressional Black Caucus are trying to run on behalf of Susan Rice: A Black Herring: They’re not serious; they mean only to run interference. How can I know this? Don’t they really think that we’re but Krypto-Klansmen? Sure, but… Read More Black Herrings and Other Attempts to Evade Responsibility for Getting Americans Killed
Content Blues 