IBD The Wisconsin recall election was about liberals’ zeal to maintain government employees’ privileges far and above those of struggling private sector workers who pay their salaries. Payroll change since January 2008 Total: -5.01 million -3.6% Private: -4.61 million -4% Government: -407,000 -1.8% Federal Government: (excluding post office) +225,000 11.4% Sources: Labor Department, Datastream Meanwhile, Paul Krugman declares “The real story about this economy is that the cutbacks at the
June 12, 2012
“Private Jobs Down 4.6 Million From January 2008; Federal Jobs Up 11.4%” [Darleen Click]
June 11, 2012
That’s a fucking bargain! [bh]
Our pw friend McGehee has released a short story for our enjoyment and the overall edification for mankind. As I haven’t read it I’m assuming it probably involves lesbians. With pictures. Also rocket cars and future guns. And space ninjas. Look, if you have a Kindle you shouldn’t even be reading this, you should already be entering numbers over at Amazon. If you don’t have a Kindle, you should be
June 11, 2012
Reagan was wrong; it is opposition to Government that is the problem … [Darleen Click]
… because Government is the Solution. Why don’t Democrats just say it? They really believe in active government and think it does good and valuable things. One of those valuable things is that government creates jobs — yes, really — and also the conditions under which more jobs can be created. […] It ought to be perfectly obvious: When the private sector is no longer investing, the economy will spin
June 11, 2012
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood… [bh]
In comments, motionview points to a nice piece by Kay S. Hymowitz in the latest City Journal. Here’s a taste: Defenders of the single-mother revolution often describe it as empowering for women, who can now free themselves from unhappy unions and live independent lives. That’s one way to look at it. Another is that it has been an economic catastrophe for those women. Poverty remains relatively rare among married couples
June 11, 2012
When ‘studies’ are substituted for God or common sense [Darleen Click]
Will the acolytes still adhere to the conclusions when studies go against their political ideology? Judge Vaughn Walker ruled in his decision overturning Proposition 8 that social science had disproven the idea that children benefit from being raised by their mom and dad in a marriage. The American Psychological Association has issued a proclamation to that effect, allegedly based on a neutral study of scientific evidence. Today in the Social
June 11, 2012
“Yes the US EPA chooses to make 34.4% equal to 100%.” [Darleen Click]
How the EPA disobeys the laws of thermodynamics Is this just another way for a do good government to dictate that the least smart student in the class gets an A. The socialist inspired nincompoops at the EPA believe the plug in needs higher grades just because three Nobel Prize winners told them so. Two of the prize winners won for peace the other for physics. The EPA allows plug
June 10, 2012
“The Second-Rate City?” [bh]
One of my favorite fiction techniques is the inclusion of a symbolic short story in a novel that offers a different way to look at the larger narrative. This isn’t that though. It’s too on the nose. There’s no symbolism. What ails Chicago ails the United States.
June 10, 2012
Quick Takes [Darleen Click]
Dana Loesch’s husband, Chris, has a close, uncomfortable encounter with TSA He performed the pat-down which began as routine, except that he used the front of his hands. He then bent down and specifically targeted Chris’s crotch. Using the front of his hands, he pressed against his genitals and swept his hands across the crotch three times across, and then pressed at the top of his genitals and wiped his
June 10, 2012
NYTimes Steve Almond: Sure I’m an obnoxious, arrogant prick, but the tools and fools of evil conservatism made me that way [Darleen Click]
Somebody needs a hug and a reality check Consider the recent debate over whether employers must cover contraception in their health plans. The underlying question — should American women receive help in protecting themselves from unwanted pregnancies? — is part of a serious and necessary national conversation. Any hope of that conversation happening was dashed the moment Rush Limbaugh began his attacks on Sandra Fluke, the young contraceptive advocate. […]