Tag: Economy
Obama’s major accomplishment as president
I added a little something to the Washington Free Beacon’s top story today:
Continue readingMatched sets, two VDH columns, a second look at Enron, and a little Israel — and an Open Thread
National Review Online had three articles this morning that I thought worth passing on. The first two form a matched set, although I suspect it was inadvertent that NRO published them on the same day. We begin with Noemie Emery’s article explaining why Franklin Roosevelt was a singular phenomenon: Put
Continue readingWhich party is most likely to reverse course before we hit the economic iceberg? (Hint: it’s not the Democrats)
Danny Lemieux left a link to this video in the comments. I think it deserves its own post. You might also want to share it with your friends. It’s studiously non-partisan, so one hopes it will make liberals thoughtful, rather than defensive. Incidentally, if any of your liberal friends think
Continue readingLet’s do the time warp again — Progressives keep urging those failed economic policies
The Huffington Post is one of the ugliest websites I’ve ever seen. I’m not talking about content (although I’ll get to that), but about its layout. The left-most column (and that turns out to be a very clever pun on my part) actually has some visual stability, insofar as it
Continue readingKing Obama the Insane — is Obama still living the big lie, or has he slipped round the bend?
Albert Einstein allegedly defined insanity as “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” Austin O’Malley looked at the process of insanity: “A sane man often reasons from sound premises; an insane man commonly reasons as well, but the premises are unsound.” And Guy de Maupassant
Continue readingThe forgotten lunch tab and what it says about personal responsibility in the age of Big Government
ABC reports that President Obama treated two service men and two local barbers to a high-fat Father’s Day lunch (high-fat, at least, for Obama), and then left without paying the tab: Amid the bustle of President Obama’s surprise stop for barbecue Wednesday the White House apparently overlooked one key detail:
Continue readingEntropy is setting in and Obama will lose this election
I tend to shy away from predicting the future. If I’m right, the future was probably so obvious that everyone else had the same prediction. If I’m wrong, I should have known better, and I end up walking away sadly scraping the egg from my face. All morning, though, I’ve
Continue readingWill 2012 be the revenge of the Mommies?
Women have been responsible for some pretty bad presidents. Warren Harding leaps most easily to mind, since his was the first presidential election in which women participated, but women were also water carriers for JFK and Bill Clinton. The Barack Obama campaign clearly hoped to capitalize on women’s bad habit
Continue readingA) Government promiseth, B) Government taketh away!
This article that just appeared in Bloomberg.com, regarding Stockton-writ-California-writ-USA-writ-large’s pending bankruptcy, is just so absolutely jaw-dropping crazy…uh, no, wait….it isn’t really so crazy after all. Never mind. If Stockton Is Broke, Why Isn’t San Diego?: Steven Greenhut http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-03-02/if-stockton-is-broke-then-why-isn-t-san-diego-steven-greenhut.html Here’s the money take-away: referencing the fact that, for the past 20
Continue readingFiguring out the subtext in Obama’s SOTU
Clark S. Judge sent to Hugh Hewitt a great note analyzing what Obama really said during the SOTU. I’m going to do something here that I almost never do, which is to reprint the note in its entirety at my own blog, albeit reformatted from the original. Why? Because the
Continue readingObama is such an easy target that it’s a shame the Republicans are determined to kill only each other
We can expect tomorrow night’s State of the Union address to be an action-packed hour (or so) of vitriol and self-pity. Obama will cherry-pick a few numbers about the 1% and then whine about how he’s been trying really hard to destroy that same 1%, but that a vast array
Continue readingWendell Romney
Does history repeat itself? I fervently hope not. Ok, I have grudgingly thrown my support behind Mitt Romney. It’s not that I am excited about Romney as a candidate, but I am genuinely excited about the need to get Obama out of office before he does irreversible damage to this
Continue readingChina’s economy is rosy only if you don’t mind that it’s shrinking, corrupt and sometimes deadly
Andy Stern, who led the SEIU to its current status as a statist political powerhouse, has a lengthy op-ed in the Wall Street Journal today, touting the wonders of China’s economic model. His basic point: China’s recent economic surge shows that government should control the economy. To support this premise,
Continue readingCBO consults with Bookworm Room, revises forecasts!
Oh dear, it appears the CBO has turned a tad pessimistic about its earlier prognostications on the economy, stimulus and ObamaCare, heralded as dogma and chiseled in stone tablets on the alters of the Left’s Temple of Orthodoxy. Drinks all around for the Bookworm Room denizens that correctly anticipated
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