In response to the President’s attempt to cast state entitlement reforms as denigrating and villifying public workers and trampling on their “right” to collude as an exempt monopoly to traditional anti-trust laws, WI Governor Scott Walker points out some truths that the administration no doubt finds inconvenient: “I’m sure the President knows that most federal employees do not have collective bargaining for wages and benefits while our plan allows it

Jonah Goldberg, back in 2009: …what really interests me is the question of what the most dangerous legacy of the Cold War really was, if it wasn’t the existence of nukes. Some might say the military-industrial complex or the national-security state. But not me. To me, the most obvious dangerous legacy of the Cold War would have to be the damage the Soviets did to the world. I don’t mean

Wapo: Across Ohio last week, the legislative push to restrict the union rights of government workers was greeted again and again by noisy protests. But in this state dotted with manufacturing plants and their locals, this may have been more striking: At least some elected officials normally sympathetic to industrial unions were questioning whether they should side with government workers. “I believe in what unions do, but as an elected

Pandering to the greens and the ethanol fetishists must not be paying off like it once did… (h/t Dan K)

Or, as I like to call them, the 47 haters who most want to harm women, children, minorities, and the earth.

Natural causes, his daughter says. Still. I’d check on Sarah Palin’s whereabouts.

Surprise! Overall, the Fed’s total balance sheet has expanded from $896 billion in Aug. 2007 when its latest round of quantitative easing began, to over $2.5 trillion today, a 187 percent increase. Now, prices are following suit. After a huge surge in oil in 2008, which saw the price of a barrel of oil peak at nearly $150 in July 2008, right before the financial crisis of September, it is