Surprise! The Social Security Administration sent about 89,000 stimulus payments of $250 each to dead and incarcerated people — but almost half of them were returned, a new inspector-general’s report has found. The agency was charged with distributing the one-time payments, worth about $13 billion in total, as part of the economic-stimulus package passed in February 2009. Most of the payments were made in May 2009. The inspector general found

I keep telling you: mandatory calisthenics are not too far behind… You. Are. No. Longer. Free. Time to put up or shut up.

I keep telling you: mandatory calisthenics are not too far behind… You. Are. No. Longer. Free. Time to put up or shut up.

It’s almost as if this post was written precisely with nishi in mind! Science!

It’s almost as if this post was written precisely with nishi in mind! Science!

Or yet another narrative to feed America’s bottomless appetite for self-righteous symbolism? Gregory Kane, Washington Examiner: Rutgers University freshman Tyler Clementi wasn’t “bullied” to death, but that hasn’t stopped America’s victimhood brigade from saying so. Let me be clear: The events that led Clementi to leap off the George Washington Bridge to his death were absolutely despicable. He had a sexual encounter in his dorm room with another man. His

Behold! The wisdom of a bureaucratic client state revealed: Greek public servants walked off the job for 24 hours Thursday to protest austerity measures, paralyzing state services, closing schools and grounding close to a hundred flights. Public-sector umbrella union ADED/Y with its 400,000-strong membership has called the industrial action, the latest of a series of strikes that have plagued the debt-ridden Mediterranean nation, to protest against wage cuts and tax

Fuzzy math + corporatism / liberal fascism = a trunk full of fail. A trunk full of fail + Democratic Congresspersons running for re-election = lies about a trunk full of fail. — Which, if I’m doing my proof correctly, means that (Democratic Congresspersons running for re-election) = liars. Of course, I was an English major, so take that for what it’s worth… **** update: TARP II? (Co-)Brought to you

Fuzzy math + corporatism / liberal fascism = a trunk full of fail. A trunk full of fail + Democratic Congresspersons running for re-election = lies about a trunk full of fail. — Which, if I’m doing my proof correctly, means that (Democratic Congresspersons running for re-election) = liars. Of course, I was an English major, so take that for what it’s worth… **** update: TARP II? (Co-)Brought to you

Once you’re done demanding fiscal discipline by helping to sweep establishment politicians out of Washington, it’s time to turn your attention to the increasingly extra-Constitutional federal courts. Because until we do that, no legislative pushback is safe — and no freedom is guaranteed should it run up against the whims of our self-styled philosopher kings. (thanks to bigbooner)