Monday, March 14, 2011

Obama: If Only I Were President of China

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So the president has let it slip that it would be so much easier to be the president of China. To Michael Goodwin for The New York Post, her...
Sunday, March 13, 2011

Is There a Nuke Plant Near You?

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The Argonne National Laboratory operates this interactive map ( here ) of US nuclear-powered electric generation plants for the US Departmen...
Saturday, March 12, 2011

Liberty Shmiberty: The Thin Gruel Offered by The Tea Party

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"[T]he proper solution would be to get us back to liberty." -- Rep. Michele Bachmann, self-appointed leader of the Tea Party Repub...
Thursday, March 10, 2011

Wisconsin Senate Republicans Receive Death Threats

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The Wisconsin State Department of Justice is trying to find out who sent the following email to Republican Senators in Wisconsin, threatenin...

Commies With Bullhorns Storm Wisconsin State Capitol Building in Madison

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Ann Althouse and Meade in Madison have the stories and the pictures, for example  here , here and here . Protestors, including assorted Soc...

Declaration of Independence 'Decidedly Un-Revolutionary'

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John Fea seems to agree with historian David Armitage that ours was a revolution not made but prevented, and takes the view that Abraham Li...

Unemployment Hits 900 at AOL after Buying HuffPo

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As reported here : AOL CEO Tim Armstrong said Thursday the company is cutting 200 jobs in the US and 700 in India following its $315 million...

Moochelle's Handbag: A Thousand Large

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Story here .
Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Wisconsin Republicans Find Way To Strip Union Power Without Quorum

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They separated the union-limiting measures from the spending part of the pending legislation which requires the quorum and passed them witho...

Miami Police Want Honeywell Spy Drone to Stare into Homes and Backyards

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The story is reported by CBS Miami here : Police admit the MAV, if flown low enough, has the ability to look into people’s home, but that is...
Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Largest Monthly Deficit in History, Senate Can't Agree to ANY Spending Cuts

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So says The Washington Times, here : The federal government posted its largest monthly deficit in history in February, a $223 billion shortf...
Monday, March 7, 2011

John Locke Believed in Neither Sodomy nor Same Sex Marriage

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From the First Treatise of Government: Be it then, as Sir Robert says, that anciently it was usual for men to sell and castrate their child...

Growing Ranks of Hidden Unemployed Explains Recent Drop in Unemployment

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So says Alfred Tella, here : Fully two-thirds of the 0.9 percentage point drop in the unemployment rate [from November 2010 through February...

Stealing Food From the Future Depends on Stealing its Water

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After reading this important story from Charles Laurence for the UK Telegraph, you will understand the necessity of industrial scale farmin...
Sunday, March 6, 2011

Obamacare Waivers Climb 311 Since Jan. 26 to 1,040, New Website Obscures Data

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From the new reporting site here : As of the end of February 2011, a total of 1040 one-year waivers have been granted.  This update includes...

How Much Capital Backs Your Assets?

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Spanish banks are scrambling to raise capital amid new rules upping the requirements for "solvency": Under the new rules, [Spanis...

Observer Figures Obama Has Spent 2 Months of 25 as President . . . Golfing

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As reported here : This is the president’s 60th time golfing as president, meaning Obama has spent two months of his presidency on the golf ...

DC: Tops for Food Stamps, Surrounded by Richest Counties

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DC ranks number one for the highest participation rate by population in the food stamp program, yet is surrounded by these, among the 25 ric...
Saturday, March 5, 2011

Housing Prices Fall to Q1 2000 Levels

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With more declines of at least 5 percent expected. Story here .

"I Am Surprised That People Are Not Even Angrier"

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Me too: 'Too many current attacks on bank bonuses miss the point. There is no "right" amount of money. It is not fine to earn ...