This is that, then. DISCUSS!

The Daily Caller: Taxpayers spent $1.4 billion dollars on everything from staffing, housing, flying and entertaining President Obama and his family last year, according to the author of a new book on taxpayer-funded presidential perks. In comparison, British taxpayers spent just $57.8 million on the royal family. Author Robert Keith Gray writes in “Presidential Perks Gone Royal” that Obama isn’t the only president to have taken advantage of the expensive

Or rather, it makes it impossible to hide the fact that it’s long been there. Pethokoukis: U.S. economic growth is dangerously slow. I’ve frequently written about research from the Fed which finds that since 1947, when two-quarter annualized real GDP growth falls below 2%, recession follows within a year 48% of the time. And when year-over-year real GDP growth falls below 2%, recession follows within a year 70% of the

At least, according to a news report by CNS.  I didn’t hear the guy speak personally.  But if I did, I’d have probably said something like “fuck that fancy-suited barbarian and the tribe of howling medieval throwbacks he keeps penned up until he needs some shit burned down, some women cut up, or some infidel heads lopped off. “Because of the peace and the tolerance.” So. Maybe it’s good I

I feel fresh today.  Lighter, somehow.  And not just psychically, either.  It’s  as if some kindly fellow had taken a heavy sack filled with all sort of accumulated dross off my back and told me he was off to recycle it in order to help save the planet, given that we humans produce too much waste, and even our exhalation is a poison that needs to be carefully monitored and

It’s come to this … ********************* GDP down, unexpectedly more than previously believed The overall economy grew at an annual rate of 1.3 percent in the spring, down from its previous estimate of 1.7 percent growth, the Commerce Department said Thursday.

Boom.