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• Crazy, Insane vs. Insane, Crazy

  One of the themes I always return to is “it’s cute when we do it”, which is shorthand for the way Democrats and their media dogwashers will denounce the Republicans for … well, take your pick: filibusters, indefinite detention, unconstitutional wars, signing statements, executive overreach, etc. … but then go eerily quiet when Obama does the exact same fucking thing. Or even worse, they will somehow contort themselves to believe that Obama’s behavior is better … Read more

• The Next Bubble

  You remember the housing bubble, yes? One version of that narrative goes like so: homeowners are better off financially than renters; therefore we decided it would benefit the economy to subsidize housing through cheap loans, mandates, low interest rates, etc. — the “ownership society”; this mainly served to inflate housing prices and saddle millions of Americans with unaffordable debts; in 2008, it blew up in our faces to the tune of trillions of dollars.

  I … Read more

• Babies Delaying Babies

  Last week, the CDC announced that teen pregnancy rates are the lowest … ever. At least for the seven decades they have been measuring. The fall has erased the surge we had in the late 80′s/early 90′s and the rates are now lower than any time since the 40′s. The rate of teen abortion is way down as well.

  The CDC attributes this to increased use of contraception. This, of course, has provoked the usual … Read more

• The Left Loses it on SCOTUS

  Imagine the most bizarre rant you’ve ever heard about “judicial activism”. Imagine it being delivered by Rush Limbaugh and Bill O’Reilly simultaneously while drunk. Imagine them delivering it in Esperanto, a language they don’t know. You will still not reach a thousandth of the anger and spittle and incoherence being spewed out by the Left Wing commentariat over the possibility that the Supreme Court will overturn Obamacare. And remember, this is just days after saying … Read more

• Rush Limbaugh and Slut-Shaming

  I’m sure you’ve heard about Rush Limbaugh’s increasingly provocative comments on birth control. In brief, Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke testified that birth control pills cost a typical woman about $3000 over a three year timescale and that this was quite a burden for students. Some Right Wing idiot calculated how many condoms that would buy (several thousand) and yucked it up about just how much birth control she needed and how much sex she … Read more

• The Worst is Yet to Come

  Building on Rich’s post on debt, I stumbled across this article that summarizes Harrisburg, PA’s recent attempt to declare bankruptcy. Essentially, the city got themselves $310 million in debt (that’s $6,000 per resident) on an incinerator. Yes, a fucking incinerator. They took on a bad obligation, compounded it by signing a deal with the lowest bidder for renovation (lowest bidders always cost more) and are now trying to impose a commuter tax to get … Read more

• Another one bites the dust?

  Seems that last Friday, when they hoped the least amount of people possible where paying attention, that Sibelius and some of the other Obama Administration people finally came clean and admitted what every non-math & economics challenged person, i.e. conservatives, pointed out about the CLASS Act in Obamacare: only a damned liar would pretend this stuff could work. In an AP piece that no longer seems to be around – I wonder why? – we … 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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• The Law of Intended Consequences

  Who could possibly have foreseen this?

  Bank of America will become the first major bank to charge customers across the country a monthly fee to shop with their debit cards, part of a wave of changes that are eroding the low-cost model of banking that consumers have long enjoyed.

  The $5 fee will debut next year for the bank’s basic checking accounts. It will apply only to debit card purchases and not to ATM

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• Left redefines patriotism again!

  Remember the good old days when anyone that vehemently hated the old Bush guard and “spoke truth to power” against them was being patriotic for evil fascist challenging government? You might not, since now that anyone doing the same, since the occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania street has a (D) next to his name, gets called a racist for doing so.

  Well, it looks like we have another such a moment in the works. We got … Read more