Damn Yankees.

In case you needed another reason to hate the Yankees:
This year the Yankees moved into a new stadium. According to baseball economist Neil deMause of the excellent Field of Schemes website, the facility cost a stunning $1.56 billion, and the total project (including replacing 22-acres of parkland that had been destroyed by the construction) totaled [...]

Today.

So I’m having sort of an author tryout over at Wizbang today. They’re letting a bunch of us post over there for a week and the winner will get a full time gig.
If you don’t already frequent Wizbang, I recommend that you do. Especially today since I’ll be posting over there…:) And who knows, if [...]

Mongo only pawn . . . in game of life.

WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama is calling on Congress to approve $250 payments to more than 50 million seniors to make up for no increase in Social Security next year.
The White House put the cost at $13 billion.
The Social Security Administration is scheduled to announce Thursday that there will be no cost of living [...]

Blindfolded.

The AP is reporting that President Obama is “looking at any way to create jobs”. That’s interesting. He must not be looking very hard. Or maybe he really is looking, but managed to get something in his eye. Or maybe he’s faking it. Never waste a crisis, you know. It’d be hard to imagine that [...]

Say it ain’t Snowe.

If one lone Republican supporting your socialist bill indicates “bipartisan” support, then Max Baucus and the Democrats got that yesterday as the first hurdle to a government takeover of our insurance industry was cleared.
Here’s Liberal in Republican clothing Olympia Snowe ruminating on whether a “public option” might be the thing to fix “what’s wrong” with [...]

“Oh, Homey.”

Marge Simpson to appear in Playboy.
No joke:
She has just turned 20, boasts an hour-glass figure, and has millions of male admirers around the world. But there Marge Simpson’s similarity with your average Playboy cover-girl ends.
In a bold departure for both Hugh Hefner’s empire and America’s longest-running television sitcom, Ms Simpson has nonetheless agreed to become [...]

Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize.

Just so we keep this in perspective, Jimmy Carter also won this award once.
The US president, Barack Obama, was today awarded the 2009 Nobel peace prize “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and co-operation between peoples”.
The Nobel committee said “only rarely has a person such as Obama captured the world’s attention and given [...]

Wait, what?

The divorce between Peter Brant and supermodel Stephanie Seymour is getting ugly. According to new legal filings, Brant alleges that Seymour spends $257,000 per month, including $50,000 on new clothes alone (via NY Post.) Brant also alleges his ex is stealing his prized items from their Connecticut home and continuing to abuse controlled substances like [...]

Kentucky fried idiots.

Watched the first 2 Rocky movies over the weekend, so forgive the title of this post. In fact, count yourselves lucky I didn’t lift any other quotes like “piss lightening and crap thunder”. Maybe tomorrow I get you that post. Maybe tomorrow.
As for today, I’ve got a little AP/Ahmadinejad story that’ll warm your hearts. In [...]

Bumper sticker.

The following is part of a longer piece published by Doug O’Brien over  at biggovernment.com (the site on which all those delicious ACORN videos originated) that unfortunately is too long for a bumper sticker, but which nonetheless captures the spirit driving a majority of Americans in opposition to Obamacare these days:
Every day, the administration’s promotional [...]

Guess who’s coming to dinner?

Someone named Noam N. Levey penned this wonderful little bit of misinformation in today’s LA Times:
Imagine the debate over healthcare legislation on Capitol Hill as a tussle among three friends out for dinner.
All three have been struggling to pay their bills lately. When the check arrives, they try to figure out how to divide it. [...]

Silly kids.

From the AP today:
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – College students from Missouri to Oregon are urging their schools to stop using coal-based electricity in favor of cleaner energy sources ranging from wood chips to geothermal power.
On Wednesday, students at the University of Missouri and other schools nationwide mounted a Sierra Club-led campaign targeting coal-based power at [...]

Obama bails on Poland & Czech Republic.

From today’s AP report:
PRAGUE (AP) – The Czech prime minister says President Barack Obama has told him that the U.S. is abandoning plans to put a missile shield in the Czech Republic and Poland.
Czech Premier Jan Fischer told reporters in Prague on Thursday that Obama phoned him to say that Washington has decided to scrap [...]

Latest ACORN sting video – Part II

Why isn’t this group a criminal enterprise? Why are they still receiving federal money? Why did Barack Obama once work for them? Why do they continue to play such a large part in his political agenda?

Latest ACORN sting video – Part 1.

There are no words.

What if ‘naked liberalism’ is just VERY unpopular?

Is it really true that BUT FOR racist white Americans, Obama’s liberal agenda (including the socialization of our health care industry) would skate through Congress and become law?
I guess we could test the data, couldn’t we? If racism is really the single factor holding Obama’s agenda back, we should be able to find recent historical [...]

Does ‘racism’ even mean anything anymore?

If not, then what a sad, sad day for the genuine victims of racism.
Here’s the AP reporting on Jimmy Carter’s latest steaming nugget of wisdom:
ATLANTA (AP) – Former President Jimmy Carter said Tuesday that U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson’s outburst to President Barack Obama during a speech to Congress last week was an act “based on [...]

In which Thomas Friedman gets it exactly wrong.

Here’s Thomas Friedman in yesterday’s NY Times:
One-party autocracy certainly has its drawbacks. But when it is led by a reasonably enlightened group of people, as China is today, it can also have great advantages. That one party can just impose the politically difficult but critically important policies needed to move a society forward in the [...]

Pickled.

From Camille Paglia’s latest column over at Slate:
Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers (one reason for the hypocritical absence of tort reform [...]

Is there anything that the Federal Government is good at?

The title of this post is almost as long as the post itself.
Consider that the Washington DC Public schools are the only public schools in the country that are completely administered by the Federal Government.
Want to take a guess at what they spend per student?
You got it. $16,540.
Bear in mind that the average cost per [...]

Crisis?

President Obama is fond of saying that there are nearly “46 million Americans without health insurance coverage.”
He’s of course blowing sunshine up all your asses.
Take a look at the real numbers:
[O]f those 45.7 million people:
* 6.4 million are enrolled in Medicaid or S-CHIP and just gave the Census taker the wrong answer. I’m serious. [...]

Insurance.

Sometimes, when you’re arguing back and forth on a topic for too long, it’s easy to sort of lose focus on what all the hub bub is about and it’s worth taking just a few moments to step back and put your hands on the arguments once again.
Health Care reform. Or is it Health Insurance [...]

A break in the action.

As we all wait with baited breath for the next big thing to come out of Washington, I thought it might be nice to mix it up a bit and offer a little baseball-related post for those of you tired of talking about Health Care reform. I promise not to take up too much of [...]

Keep your eye on the ball.

Ever get the feeling that Democrats can’t possibly be this stupid? To increase deficits to unmanageable levels on purpose under the guise of ‘fixing’ the economy? To cram health care ‘reform’ legislation through congress without even bothering to understand what it means let alone whether it will actually reform anything or make things infinitely worse? [...]

The wild side.

And the liberals go ‘do d-do d-do do d-do’….
Like clockwork these people try to deligitimize debate by calling conservatives Nazis. “Don’t you care about people?” they wonder. “Are you a monster?” they ask. “I don’t want to live in a country that doesn’t take care of it’s own.” they bleat.
Conservatives care about people. We are [...]