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IRS Tax Revenues Falling

May 27, 2009
I'm on vacation this week, so blogging will be light.  GM will have to have its death throes largely without me. But I do want to point to two articles that point to a growing problem that the Obama administration has failed to address in a...

Just say no to F-Bombs

Mar 31, 2009
As in, using the word "fascist" to apply to the current, or indeed previous, administration.? David Henderson writes: President Obama has done something far more serious. He has already, in less than 100 days, moved the U.S. economy further towards ...

Atlas raised his eyebrows

Mar 4, 2009
Perhaps predictibly, Ayn Rand is making a comeback on the right, with Congressmen handing out her books, and loose talk of rich people "Going Galt".? I don't think that we will see a mass exodus of productive people to secret hideouts.? I look to A...

Freedom isn't free

Feb 27, 2009
I don't know quite what to say about the Bush administration's midnight regulations allowing healthcare workers to exercise their "conscience", or the Obama administration's rapid undoing of same,...

The problem with dream teams

Feb 6, 2009
A lot of brilliant thinkers in one room, faced with a very uncertain situation, are likely to disagree with each other.? And fight for power/their ideas.? It's already started with Obama's...

Oprah Winfrey Ending the Most Successful Television Show Ever

Nov 20, 2009
Oprah Winfrey has announced that she is ending her show after its 25th season.  You can see why she's doing it:  one of the wealthiest people in America, with $2.6 billion to her name, Ms. Winfrey hardly needs to keep showing up for a job that must be...

AppleCare: No Smokers Need Apply

Nov 20, 2009
Allegedly, Apple is declining to repair Macs owned by smokers on the ground that secondhand smoke is dangerous.  This a gross misunderstanding of the science--theoretically, tobacco tar could be hazardous if applied to your skin, but you'd have to...

Is Fox a Real News Operation?

Nov 20, 2009
Fox News seems to have a real problem with cutting old footage into new stories.  The liberal theory is that this is some sort of concerted conspiracy to imply that 80 million Americans turn out for every Tea Party or Sarah Palin appearance. The...

Mental Health Break

Nov 20, 2009
The Real Problem with vampires.

The Other CBO Health Care Report

Nov 20, 2009
Shortly after it posted its analysis of the Senate health care bill, the CBO put up a letter to Congressman Paul Ryan (R-WI) analyzing the House's other health care bill:  the $200+ billion dollar "fix" (aka repeal) of the Sustainable Growth Rate. ...


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