Clearly, God wasn’t happy that the naive and presumptuous Visigoths used their mob siege powers to overtake and depose two sitting Democratic Senators, including the Senate President, for failing to represent them and for running their initial campaigns under false pretenses. And by “God,” I of course me global climate change and all its accoutrements: rain, wind, flash floods, hurricanes, heat waves, droughts, microbursts, heavy snowfall, very low temperatures, tsunamis,
September 17, 2013
“The new CBO debt study is way worse than the media is telling you”
Unexpectedly! Jim Pethokoukis: Almost all media reports about the Congressional Budget Office’s new long-term budget analysis will highlight its forecast that the federal public debt, now about 73% of GDP, is on track to reach 100% of GDP in 2038. Now that’s scary enough. As Maya MacGuineas of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget puts it: “Today’s report confirms exactly what we have been warning — that the debt is on an
A note to Feinstein, Obama, David Frum, Henry Winkler, some Soviet apparatchik, et al
Long version: Yes, yesterday we did indeed have “yet another” (so statesmanlike, President O!) mass shooting, this time inside DC, and inside a government facility. And yes, rifles were involved, Senator Feinstein, purchased legally, apparently. Too, it’s true, Mr Frum, that Second Amendment absolutists believe — unironically, to your evident amusement — that law abiding gun owners are law abiding gun owners taking responsibility for their own protection and the
