Harvard econ professor Greg Mankiw, at his blog: Tim Conley and Bill Dupor have a new paper on the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (that is, the Obama stimulus bill). Their empirical findings Our benchmark results suggest that the ARRA created/saved approximately 450 thousand state and local government jobs and destroyed/forestalled roughly one million private sector jobs. State and local government jobs were saved because ARRA funds were largely used
May 16, 2011
"NLRB to Boeing: Shut up!"
Bill Wilson, ALG: Every American should be afraid when their government tells them to keep their mouths shut. This is especially true when the subject relates to a matter of national public policy. On Monday, Lafe Solomon, acting general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), seemed to forget about the right to free speech when he essentially told Boeing, and all other commentators, to shut it. In 2009,
May 15, 2011
Gingrich: Ryan Medicare plan "too big a jump"
Did you all really think the Roves and Hewitts and Bushes of the world wouldn’t fight back? The House GOP budget plan, proposed by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), would effectively turn Medicare into a voucher system in which seniors were given money by the federal government to purchase private insurance, creating a radically different system than the current guaranteed benefit plan for seniors. Gingrich said he would prefer a system
May 15, 2011
"Gingrich Backs Obamacare's Individual Mandate Requiring Health Insurance"
Unconstitutional? Posh. Good luck with your lawsuit, TEA Party peoples. The architect of the last great conservative victory has spoken, and he’s on Obama’s side. Listen up, proles. It’s time you let your rulers rule. For your part, just eat your Cheez-its and then, come November, pull the lever for whatever GOP candidate you’re told to pull the lever for. Ethanol subsidies / global warming regulations / individual mandate in
May 15, 2011
Off to the Rockies game
Make-up date for the April game we went to that was canceled thanks to snow. Today, we have rain an 40s. #WINNING!
May 14, 2011
Bin Laden's dead; time to end the War on Terror and declare it a push.
Liberalism. Gutsy.
May 14, 2011
A poem from 195x, revised by the ghost of Richard Brautigan, 2011
portrait of a man What would you do if the rain fell up? Me? Yeah. Get used to living on a cloud, a hideous formation of deadly greenhouse gases that are conspiring, through the unnatural industry of parasitic man, to kill the planet dead, I guess.*
May 14, 2011
"Office of Management and Budget Employees to Push to Unionize"
Barriers being broken. Hastening the end of what was. (h/t geoffb)
May 13, 2011
9 (potential) porn videos found in bin Laden bunker
9. Ali Baba and the 40 Filthy Dirty Sluts Gone Wild! 8. The Satanic Nurses 7. Diddler on the Roof 6. Debbie Does Every Arab Man Who Demands It, Because That’s What Women are For. Unless You Count Cooking and Cleaning. Which, That, Too 5. Yentl 4. Where the Boys Are ’84 3. (tie) Salo / Black Stallion 2 2. The Devil in Mrs Habibi 1. The Goat Whisperer
May 13, 2011
"Bin Laden hideout had extensive porn stash, officials say"
Mostly videos of young boys fucking hummus and bowls of sesame seeds, sure. But still —