I've done a courtesy search for the term born to be bad for you. See if you can find what you're looking for in the list below:

• Why Bill Maher Is A Horse’s Ass

  Because he’ll take a seemingly legitimate point and drop into a vat of stupidity. Here’s the clip everyone is talking about:

  Buried within that stupidity is a legitimate point that the Republican leadership and a large part of the punditsphere are campaigning against a partially imaginary candidate. I’ve pointed out before that the “apology tour” stuff was bull and that Obamacare, bad as it is, was hatched in conservative circles and is to the right … Read more

• That’s because they get it Part Deux.

  Manwhore issued me an infantile challenge to put up a post about education. I took some of his request and am writing about the value of an education vs. the cost to get it, and to make the point that there are no job guarantees. While doing the research, I came across a timely and telling story, in the NYT of all places, dealing with the fact, despite the NYT blatant attempt to spin this … Read more

• Smart Asses

  Shikha Dalmia had an interesting post up at Reason about why smart presidents do dumb things.

  The team of the “best and brightest” that Lyndon Johnson inherited from John F. Kennedy embroiled America in an ignominy like Vietnam—not to mention Medicare, a fiscal quagmire that, unlike Vietnam, the country can neither exit nor fix without courting bankruptcy or seriously screwing over millions of seniors.

  Moreover, George W. Bush’s failures resulted not from his alleged stupidity,

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• Gunrunner update: another prediction comes true

  Which one is that? Well, the one where I pointed out that such a complicated multi-agency operation could simply not happen without the top people at the DOJ driving it, and the DOJ would not drive it without the WH telling them to, and now we find out that Holder at a minimum was informed of this in briefings as this link shows:

  WASHINGTON – New documents obtained by CBS News show Attorney General Eric

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• Another shoe drops…

  The El Paso Times has this article dealing with a new accusation made, in court, by the defense for a Mr. Vicente Zambada-Niebla, who was extradited to the United States to face drug-trafficking charges in Chicago of all places, a top lieutenant in the Sinaloa cartel, that’s very disturbing. The accusation? Heck, let me just post the article and let you know what this lawyer is alleging that agents in employ of our federal government … Read more

• Removing The Citizenship Clause

  Hal’s latest post about the Lee Amendment got me thinking (I know, caution, flying debris, clear the room) about the amendment process in general. The idea that changing times and circumstances would require new and unique measures was one well recognized by the framers, hence, a ready made apparatus for that change was baked in. They recognized early on that while taking great pains to create a comprehensive and thoughtful document, additional modifications would … Read more

• Where’s My Football?

  It’s not too bad yet, just some mild nervous ticks,a general malaise of well being, and a hair trigger temper set off by the most innocuous of offenses, when oh when is this lock out going to end? For any real NFL fans on the site, maybe this will temporarily assuage any pangs of helplessness:

  Field of Dreams 2: NFL Lockout with Taylor Lautner from Taylor Lautner

  If I don’t see some serious hits on … Read more

• Gas prices are going up again.

  NOTE: I wrote this post a couple of weeks ago, and then left it as a draft because I figured it would turn into another battle about AGW. However, the predictions I was making then seem to have born fruit, so I decided it was time to actually post it, focusing on the fact that this policy failed miserably.

  Obama’s team, suddenly realizing that their belief expensive gas was awesome and a needed thing for … Read more

• Work Americans Won’t Do

  See, this is why I think you create a guest worker program before you kick people out of the country:

  After enacting House Bill 87, a law designed to drive illegal immigrants out of Georgia, state officials appear shocked to discover that HB 87 is, well, driving a lot of illegal immigrants out of Georgia.

  It might be funny if it wasn’t so sad.

  Thanks to the resulting labor shortage, Georgia farmers have been forced

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• Jobs

  I’ve been thinking a lot about the job problem in this country. Jobs are the problem right now. One in eleven Americans is unemployed, the knock-on economic effects are making a bad deficit situation worse and a long-term culture of dependence is being created. I am under no delusion that a blog post will change anything. But I thought I’d write up about 2000 words of thoughts on the subject so you’ll know where I’m … Read more