You know it’s the silly season when campaign insiders and journalists (there’s a difference. I just know there is) start whispering about positive jobs reports. Even hardened old cynics like myself took pause. Why, maybe there’s a chance after all. Maybe the economy has finally found its headwind. And true to form, the numbers weren’t… Read More Taking Hope Behind the Barn and Killing it With an Axe.
Over at A Checquerboard of Nights and Days, one of the best quotes I’ve ever heard about the man Proggies love to pretend they can refute: As I have written before, former Secretary of State George Shultz liked to say that “everyone likes to debate Milton . . . when he leaves the room.” I… Read More Milton Friedman Remembered
…and the Panic of 1907, too. This is a few days old, but worth pointing out. And there’s no end in sight. But Romney’s all Rich and stuff!
Stacy McCain offers up the new attack ad. You can demagoge about corporate fatcats until Demosthenes himself says “Dude, we get it,” and people play right along. But when you ask the question: “So what’s the government going to do that’s any better?” You won’t get an answer that makes any sense. We have an… Read More Romney Concludes That People Dislike The Government More than Bain Capital…
Insert your own Mayan calendar joke here. Outages are not inevitable. The German power grid has outages at an average rate of 21 minutes per year. The winds may howl. The trees may fall. But in Germany, the lights stay on. There’s no Teutonic engineering magic to this impressive record. It’s achieved by a very… Read More David Frum Said Something Interesting…
Memeorandum links a long essay by Peter Wehner in Commentary, discussing the liberal explanations for “the unexpectedly shovel-ready high-speed intercontinental 57-state train wreck that is the Obama administration” (is that what they call a meme aggregation?). According to Wehner, they are as follows:
While Europe and America have spent the last thirty years adding untold trillions to their respective debts, Canada has done the exact opposite. (h/t: Instapundit) Witness this graph: How did they manage this?
Or, the Benefits of Political Retirement Ex-Senator Alan Simpson sent a letter to the California Alliance of Retired Americans, in which he roundly told them to pull their decrepit heads from their aging sphincters and try reading the Simspon-Bowles Act before mumbling about how their Metamucil costs more than it used to and young people… Read More Alan Simpson is Awesome
Rex Nutting, writing for Marketwatch, posits that the Emperor’s clothes are in fact Fabulous and we are only pretending not to see them: What people forget (or never knew) is that the first year of every presidential term starts with a budget approved by the previous administration and Congress. The president only begins to shape… Read More Obama Didn’t Raise Spending. In Other News, “Black” is Now Being Referred to as “White”
GAO: Recoverable Oil in Colorado, Utah, Wyoming ‘About Equal to Entire World’s Proven Oil Reserves’ Could be worth $60 trillion. So much for “Peak Oil”. Eventually, someone’s going to start wondering why, if this is true, we’re still paying $3.50 a gallon.
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