Sunday, June 12, 2011

Addison on criticism

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  A critick is a man who, on all occasions, is more attentive to what is wanting than what is present. -- Joseph Addison

The Nine Rebellious Stripes

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ObamaCare's High Risk Pools Flop, Only 18,000 Sign Up as of March

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So says Megan McArdle here : I've predicted that lots of parts of Obamacare will not work the way they're expected to.  But here...
Saturday, June 11, 2011

Top 5 Radiation Hot Spots of 50 Air Measurement Points Inside Fukushima 20 km Zone

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Okuma town is the hardest hit at points 2.5 to 5 km distant from the nuclear power plant: Koirino 93.9 microSv/hour Ottozawa 68.4 microSv/ho...

A Vote for a Mormon is a Vote for the Flip-Flop as an Acceptable Principle

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And Mitt Romney epitomizes this ethos already. From Warren Cole Smith here : Mormonism is particularly troubling . . . because Mormons belie...

Your Healthcare Future: Door Number One, Door Number Two, or Door Number Three?

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Shikha Dalmia chooses door number three: ObamaCare is the worst thing that could happen to seniors in their old age; inaction is the next an...

Main Street, Obamaville: All Bumps, No Road

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From the inimitable Mark Steyn, here : The American Dream, 2011: You pay four bucks a gallon to commute between your McJob and your underwat...

Cutting Spending: Tea Party's Meession from G-d

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As reported by Howard Gold here : Congress has raised the debt limit 74 times since 1962 so the federal government can meet its obligations....

Guarantees Implicit Under Dodd-Frank Hand Big Banks Billions in Borrowing Advantages at Taxpayer Expense

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So says John Carney here , calling Bank of America, Citigroup and Wells Fargo, among others, our new Fannie Maes and Freddie Macs.
Friday, June 10, 2011

Corporate Cash Reaches New Record Yet Corporate Borrowing is at Staggering Levels

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Corporate cash reached a new record of $1.9 trillion in Q1 according to the Federal Reserve's Flow of Funds report. The figure is refere...

Progressivism: Just Another Word For Fascism

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As seen here : "Reading various online threads, it never ceases to amaze me that advocates of what we will call a more liberal or progr...
Thursday, June 9, 2011

Palin Proves Again That the Climb Down Into the Gutter Comes Natural to Her

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Here it is again on her Facebook page, playing cutesy with the acronym for Obama's "Winning the Future." Every time she resor...

Imagine 1.2 Million Mortgagors Not Making ANY Payments in Over Two Years

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And about 3 million more who haven't paid anything in over a year. The story is here . Looks like judicial foreclosure states only, of c...

The EU Project Has Been an Elaborate Charade from the Beginning

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So argues Samuel Gregg, in considerable detail, here : [T]he economic woes of countries like Portugal, Spain, and Greece have resulted from ...
Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Now You Know Why The Dept. of Education Wanted to Procure Shotguns

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The "federal business opportunity" placed here  on March 8, 2010 was for 27 shotguns for the Dept. of Education. They probably use...

What's Wrong With the Republican Party? That Any of it Approves of the Job Obama is Doing.

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Over 25 percent is mind-boggling, but even 14 percent approving is nothing short of nutty: "In May, over a quarter approved of Presiden...

Obama Safeguards Student Loans So Much He'll Break Down Your Door to Get to Them

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"We be loans and shit." Story here .

Radiation in Iitate, Japan, is Down to 2.69 Microsieverts Per Hour

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Per the June 8th report of environmental radiation in the districts of Fukushima Prefecture,  here . The reading remains the highest of the ...

If You Don't Have the Note Today, You Don't Have No Game

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Chris Whalen here  shows the regrettable continuity between the problems of today and the 1930s with respect to the legal issues in judicial...

My Favorite Homeowner's Front Door Visitor Welcome Sign

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"Welcome to our illusion of economic prosperity."