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• There is a lot more to this story…

  Everyone is up in arms about the new school regulation banning bake sales in MA. The parents that usually use these sales to raise money for school sports and other such activities are incensed.

  Bake sales, the calorie-laden standby cash-strapped classrooms, PTAs and booster clubs rely on, will be outlawed from public schools as of Aug. 1 as part of new no-nonsense nutrition standards, forcing fundraisers back to the blackboard to cook up alternative

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• LSM is again not reporting a huge story

  Stalin was famous for saying the following:

  “It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.”

  By that he meant that people like him believed that elections where just a means to an end, and thus, the real power came from the vote counters. The progressives have agreed with Stalin on this forever, and have actively pursued … Read more

• A Surplus of Law

  I finally, somewhat belatedly, read Harvey Silverglate’s Three Felonies a Day. The book is a bit different from the title. It doesn’t actually argue that Americans commit three felonies a day. But it does argue that vague laws, ambitious prosecutors, regulatory complexity and the abandonment of mens rea — the principle that criminal charges should be brought only for intentional violations of the law — have created an environment in which massive swathes of … Read more

• Debating Our Choices

  Big debate tonight on FOX. I know, ho hum, another debate, but this one is like the playoffs ,and this one I will watch, unlike all the others. Iowa is in 3 weeks and each candidate has got this one last chance to pop their jersey’s, to sack the other QB, and to dazzle us with their touch down dances.

  The latest Rasmussen poll came out and, holy smokes, what a turn around. Last time … Read more

• Like Herpes…

  It looks like one of the DNC tax payer subsidized propaganda arms, even after being defunded, simply will not go away. Who am I talking about? Well the organization previously know as ACORN. Seems they are in the news again and not surprisingly, they are part & parcel of the OWS protests.

  Officials with the revamped ACORN office in New York — operating as New York Communities for Change — have fired staff, shredded reams

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• The Taibbi Plan

  Matt Taibbi, one of the key members of the More Clever than Smart Club, has an essay on what he would have OccupyWallStreet demand. It’s making the rounds. Let’s go through it. I’ve almost finished reading The Big Short, a book you really should read to understand the recent financial crisis. So this will serve two purposes: responding to Taibbi and talking about what I learned from Michael Lewis.

  1. Break up the monopolies.

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• The Slowest Stimulus

  Barack Obama is supposed to talk jobs tonight. Of course, what he’s really going to talk is spending, likely on our “crumbling infrastructure”. Gregg Eastebrook has a roundup of what our efforts to deal with this cost:

  *Boston’s Big Dig, mostly funded by the federal taxpayer though benefits went exclusively to Massachusetts, was supposed to take 10 years at a cost of $6.2 billion in today’s dollars. Instead it took 21 years and cost $22

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• Did you know Obama shot bin Laden himself? I saw it in a movie!

  It looks like the Obama propaganda machine is in full force for the 2012 election. He never stopped campaigning & raising money – considering his skill set is limited to those of an Alinskyite disciple and community organizing, I am not surprised at this either – which explains why the country is doing so well. They have been controlling the press and have gotten real angry when the reporters haven’t stayed on message. The usual … Read more

• From Russia, With Ammo

  One of my favorite channels on youtube is FPSRussia, this Russian dude (I bet he gets a lot of chicks with that accent) takes a variety of absolutely kick ass weapons, modifies them to even more badass, then makes videos of shit getting blown up, nothing highbrow here, just some good old fashion carnage.

  His latest has to do with a sniper rifle:

  I know, I can spit 100 meters, but the farther away … Read more

• To Newt, Or Not To Newt

  CM commented  today that the lack of Republican contenders that have declared so far has made the incumbent the prohibitive favorite. Tomorrow the heaviest of heavy weights (yes, he could lose a few pounds) will make it official:

  In the 13 years since he suffered a string of political setbacks and quit the third most powerful job in Washington, Newt Gingrich has been busily laying the foundation for a comeback to an even grander

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