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July 2012

Nanny Bloomberg’s latest edict … [Darleen Click]

Add baby formula to transfat, Big Gulps and alcohol. Mayor Bloomberg is pushing hospitals to hide their baby formula behind locked doors so more new mothers will breast-feed. Starting Sept. 3, the city will keep tabs on the number of bottles that participating hospitals stock and use — the most restrictive pro-breast-milk program in the nation. Under the city Health Department’s voluntary Latch On NYC initiative, 27 of the city’s

a little over six years ago now

I wrote this: […] today’s liberal-Democrats are nothing but opportunistic and increasingly reprehensible tin-plated Macchiavellians; to many of these people, rhetoric trumps truth; spin is paramount, and power is all. Never before in my lifetime did I find it even remotely possible that our country could fight another civil war. But I’m beginning to think that a (non-violent) civil war is coming—and that, frankly, it needs to happen. How it

A pragmatic centrist’s new America

Think “redistributing” discipline in schools along racial lines — as a sort of “racial justice” — will lead necessarily to either a softening of overall school discipline or else the unwarranted disciplining of non-Blacks for trumped-up offenses intended solely to meet new Orwellian government quotas (I ask you, which is more likely from members of the teacher’s unions, that they look to protect themselves or worry about the permanent records

So, Obama Administration: What’s the capitol of Israel?

Our official answer is this:     Does that answer your question? While Hot Air examines the nuance of the Administration’s position — it’s a delicate diplomatic matter, you see (made even more so, I would guess, when you’re buddying up to the Muslim Brotherhood and helping re-shape the middle east along the lines of a leftist-Islamist coalition, a consideration not mentioned in the responsibility objective and nuanced Hot Air

Why we need to raise the death tax

“Wisconsin Reporter Exclusive: 460 inmates collected unemployment checks in 2011.”  See?  This kind of governmental incompetence and waste doesn’t fund itself.  So pony up, “the rich” / farmers / small business owners.   There’s no reason inmates should have to suffer without a stipend so that your family can be gifted shit upon your death that the spoiled brats don’t deserve.

“Tying Obamacare in knots”

Bill Wilson, Americans for Limited Government: The Supreme Court ruling on Obamacare found that the law’s mandatory Medicaid expansion was unconstitutional, effectively giving states an opt-out provision that many now plan to take. In short, if states refuse to expand Medicaid, and there is no funding for the insurance exchanges, Obamacare will effectively be defunded. To deal with this flaw, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) on May 24 simply issued

“Man Sentenced to 30 Days in Jail in Oregon for collecting rainwater on his property”

Scenes from an Oregon prison.       “So what are you in here for, Mr Man with the Snake Tattoo on His Face?”       “I killed my entire family with a samurai sword I picked up at a gun show, then cleaned and ate them before refinishing the couch and loveseat with their skins. You?”       “Collected rainwater on my property. Stole it right out from under the noses of the

ObamaCo to use title IX to artificially change “gender ratio” in science, math, and technology studies

Because the way things shake out naturally just doesn’t give the right appearance, and so the central planners will determine what artificial fixes to the dispassionate market dynamic will make that dynamic (unknowingly, of course, it being a spontaneous ordering and all and not a sentient being like those brilliant politicians who know better than such a spontaneous ordering how things should be) less disgustingly and unfairly misogynistic. Hans Bader

Friday News Dump: Q2 GDP 1.5% – “We tried our plan & it worked!” [Darleen Click]

Bureau of Economic Analysis Real gross domestic product — the output of goods and services produced by labor and property located in the United States — increased at an annual rate of 1.5 percent in the second quarter of 2012, (that is, from the first quarter to the second quarter), according to the “advance” estimate released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. In the first quarter, real GDP increased 2.0

You want context? I got your friggin context right here … [Darleen Click]

So, what are you going to do now, Barry?