Baby

My son’s got a temperature tonight and hasn’t been able to stay asleep longer than an hour or so at a time. I was home with him today and my wife was with him yesterday. I feel so badly for him. His forehead is so hot and I can see him shiver like I remember [...]

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” [...]

Because they’ve been so trustworthy before.

The socialists are promising that THIS time it will be different. Forget about that whole Medicare thing where we promised to take care of a small SLIVER of our population (the elderly). Forget that we utterly failed. Focus instead how THIS TIME it will be different and that we’re more effectively manage the health of [...]

French toast.

Put a cap on the price of ANYTHING…and when the real VALUE of that thing EXCEEDS that price, then you’ll RUN OUT of that thing and there will be SHORTAGES. Unless of course you RATION that thing so that people can only access it in limited amounts. NOT ONLY THAT….but when the people in charge [...]

Snapshot.

Has Obama rescued the economy? You very well may think that if you get your news from the NY Times or MSNBC or any one of a trillion other mouthpieces for the Democrat party, but reality (as it often does) has intervened to spoil the party. Cast thine eyes on this from the indispensible Innocent [...]

Wonderful.

Sometimes an apt analogy is the perfect medicine for thick-headedness. Check this out:

Waste.

It’s not surprising that the much-ballyhooed “economic stimulus” hasn’t done much stimulating. President Obama and his aides argue that it’s too early to expect startling results. They have a point. A $14 trillion economy won’t revive in a nanosecond. But the defects of the $787 billion package go deeper and won’t be cured by time. [...]

Gobbledegook.

Had to read this headline twice. Obama seeks fiscal responsibility mantle He’s seeking it now? I mean, it’s nice, if it’s true, but I can’ t believe that this is about anything except Obama trying to cover his ass after his MASSIVE outlay of irresponsible spending contained in the “stimulus” package. Let’s see what you [...]

Act now!

We’ve all seen the infomercials. The hucksters claiming that their extra special product “won’t last” or that their “supplies are limited” They tell us that their offer is only available “for a limited time” and as an extra incentive to get us to open our wallets, tell us that the “first 100 callers” get a [...]

Tuesday afternoon read.

If you’ve got 5 minutes to spare, I recommend spending it on this piece on Fascism by Sheldon Richman. Mussolini’s fascism took another step [in 1925] with the advent of the Corporative State, a supposedly pragmatic arrangement under which economic decisions were made by councils composed of workers and employers who represented trades and industries. [...]

Indefensible.

Geithner rescue package ‘robbery of the American people’ – Telegraph

[Nobel award-winning economist] Professor [Joseph] Stiglitz, speaking at a conference in Hong Kong, said that the US government is essentially using the taxpayer to guarantee the downside risks, namely that these assets will fall further in value, while the upside risks, in terms of future profits, are being handed to private investors such as insurance [...]

Milton Friedman

So this little video of free-market guru Milton Friedman speaking with Phil Donahue about ‘greed’ has made the rounds over the weekend and I figured maybe some of you would like to check it out. First, dig the cluelessly earnest expression on Phil’s mug as he’s listening to the master speak on a topic he’s [...]

Minority party power.

Senate Democratic leaders conceded yesterday that they do not have the votes to pass the stimulus bill as currently written and said that to gain bipartisan support, they will seek to cut provisions that would not provide an immediate boost to the economy. via Senate Lacks Votes to Pass Stimulus – washingtonpost.com. This is a [...]