Orwellian, and downright creepy. Obama has a new AttackWatch site where you can turn in counter-revolutionaries. It’s like the East-German Stasi but the “Lite” version (so far). Tell Big Brother if your neighbor doesn’t tow the party line. I am…
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It’s Almost As Though She Hasn’t Read a Paper in Four Years
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From the depts. of “they still don’t get it” and “I’ve never read a Thomas Sowell column” comes this gem of a column. After reading this recent column from syndicated Washington Post columnist Michelle Singletary, you wonder if she’s actually…
Why Is The Tappan Zee Bridge Where It Is?
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A very enlightening look at the way sausage is made, and government works. Consider this reason #14,933,201 almost everything is better in the private sector. Thanks to Dr. Mark Perry for the link. (pic via Wiki) [Note that this problem…
Growing Up …
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Most of us eventually have to grow up. If you look at the earliest posts on this blog, I’m embarrassed to admit that you’ll see that I started out as a Neo-Con, or at least something similar. I used to…
$20B For Air Conditioning / Year in Afghanistan and Iraq
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Think about that. (pic via Steven Anderson) Among The Costs Of War: $20B In Air Conditioning : NPR: “The amount the U.S. military spends annually on air conditioning in Iraq and Afghanistan: $20.2 billion. That’s more than NASA’s budget. It’s…
Only In Govt. Can They Lose Money on Highway Robbery
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Only in govt. can they have a legal monopoly on armed highway robbery (literally), and still lose money on it. (pic via Nick Ut / AP) Challenges to red light cameras span US – US news – Life – msnbc.com:…
Whose side are you on?! (Hillary on Libya)
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Wow, how much things change, how much they stay the same. Doesn’t Hillary sound a great deal like George W. Bush in the months following 9/11? At that time and for years afterwards he was excoriated by the political left…
Liberty & Govt. In The News: Bike Helmets, D.C. Theatre, & More
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A good video: The Philosophy of Liberty: Plunder, a must-watch. Government Causes Poverty – Stossel’s Take Blog: “I once went around the world to try to answer the question: what makes a nation prosperous? The answer: economic freedom. The answer…
Lessons in Govt: Incentives, Road-Kill, & Cigars
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Two recent items from the WSJ worth your time. First note the incentives at play in govt. schools. When you do poorly, you are rewarded with more money, this model is more than a little warped, it’s exactly 180° off…
Do You Think We Have a Spending Problem?
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Chew on these numbers for a bit. U.S. funding for future promises lags by trillions – USATODAY.com: “The federal government’s financial condition deteriorated rapidly last year, far beyond the $1.5 trillion in new debt taken on to finance the budget…