Ronald Bailey, “Red Ink and Green Jobs,” Reason: In 2006, when California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a mandate for dramatic reduction of greenhouse gasses into law, the state’s economy was in a very different place. Unemployment was 4.5 percent and residents felt rich thanks to inflated home values. Today, 12.5 percent of Californians are out of work, the state is in budgetary meltdown, and Californians are re-evaluating their priorities. Economic
April 7, 2010
April 7, 2010
“Five things we learned about Obamacare after it passed”
[W]e have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy.” — Nancy Pelosi Yes, she actually said that — right before she shot a man just to see if he would die. Good freakin’ lord.
April 7, 2010
The Rape of “The Rape of Liberty”
Via David Thompson, Elle Gray in The Guardian: Then, I saw a cartoon, the “creative” work of a conservative blogger, that depicted the aftermath of the rape of the Statue of Liberty by President Obama. My first thought was, oh, hello, yet another idea reinforced during reconstruction and redemption – the myth of the sexually violent black man. This “brute” was a particular danger to white women and this myth