John Stossel, Reason: […] I see the future: The politicians will meet and fret and hold press conferences and predict disaster. Then they’ll reach a deal. It will just postpone the reckoning, but they’ll congratulate themselves, and the media will move on. America, however, continues to go broke. “They’re not going to admit that we’re bankrupt, and they won’t admit that we’re on the verge of a major, major change
November 2012
November 26, 2012
All the President’s Men, redux
Only in this re-imagining, which can only take place in a postmodern world of manufactured “reality” and antifoundationalist moorings that insulate tyrants from critiques that rely on hoary Enlightenment ideas like reason or logic or consistency, Woodward and Bernstein actually murder Deep Throat to protect Nixon, and the rest of the mainstream press actively celebrates the missing 18 minutes of tape, sneering at those who believe the gap to have
November 26, 2012
US foreign policy reaches a new level: the gobsmackingly absurd
Which is not to be confused with dangerously surreal, another favorite of life under the American Idol presidency in these, our Benighted States of Ameritopia. But still. And here you thought the Million Muppet March was the surrealist tipping point. Shame on you for underestimating the superficiality, unseriousness, and rank ignorance of just over half the country’s voters.
November 26, 2012
“Gun Store Owner Who Banned Obama Supporters Says ‘Business Is Booming'”
The spirit of federalism lives on — even as the permanent ruling class, always busy shoring up more and more centralized power, keeps insisting it has a mandate over all the country’s newly-minted subjects. The truth, however, is that some sort of organic resistance to the march of tyranny is already taking place, and that the first post-racial, post-partisan President has fractured the country in such a way that we’re
November 25, 2012
War on Thanksgiving Christmas Americanism [Darleen Click]
I’ve been rolling my eyes and gritting my teeth at each new HOW DARE YOU OFFEND ME!! stories of people (usually anti-theists or Leftists) who can’t abide by Americans celebrating Thanksgiving or Christmas. Nasty polemics dominate anti-Thanksgiving at taxpayer-supported universities — even a professor writes that it is a White supremacist holiday and our Founding Fathers were “nearly identical” to Nazis. The long march of Bowdlerizing the American public square
November 24, 2012
When Leftists use Twitter without a chaperone [Darleen Click]
As screencapped by SDA — Do note that Anthony De Rosa is a Reuters “reporter”. Heh.
November 24, 2012
A Doctor’s “new normal” under ObamaCare: “Free” has its price. [Darleen Click]
Each time you are now in the examining room, Obama is looking over your doctor’s shoulder. Obamacare is awful. Forget all the “free stuff” it provides. Children covered on their parents’ plan until 26 years of age? A scam, making young adults — excuse me, children — pay for complete, comprehensive health insurance when all they need and should pay for is major catastrophe insurance. Then there is the “annual
November 24, 2012
Hayek? Adam Smith? How about Larry the Cable Guy? [McGehee]
If you watch TV you’ve undoubtedly seen the Prilosec ads featuring Larry the Cable Guy, building on his “Only in America” TV show theme to sell antacid with a flavored coating. At first blush you might have wondered why Prilosec willingly markets its new product as “stuff you didn’t even know you wanted” like sporks and spray cheese and sweatpants dyed to look like blue jeans. But it’s a subtle
November 23, 2012
RIP Larry Hagman [Darleen Click]
He was best known for his role as J.R. Ewing in the television show Dallas that ran from 1978 to 1991, but I’ll always think of him as astronaut Tony Nelson in I Dream of Jeannie (1965-70). Hagman passed away today, at the age of 81
November 23, 2012
ObamaMath: $500 billion in tax hikes for $50 billion in spending cuts [Darleen Click]
Obama is committed to expanding Government and strangling private enterprise Well, it was former Bush adviser Keith Hennessey who discovered a big obstacle in all this. Team Obama wants a gargantuan $1.6 trillion tax hike over the next 10 years to finance larger government. And Hennessey surmised — and I agree — that the reason the president couched his language in terms of higher tax “revenues” rather than tax “rates”