Monday, December 15, 2014

Terrorist heads! Terrorist heads! Terrorist heads on pikes!

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A venerable old practice, described here .

Pacifist Rama is the first caller to Steyn on Limbaugh today, and now to Savage!

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Just now. How did he do that? People claim they've been trying sometimes for decades to get through to these radio talkers, and Ra...

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard says Britain's George Osborne is full of fiscal baloney

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George Osborne is in today's Wall Street Journal here , bragging about Britain's fiscal discipline, among other things: "...

Federal Reserve and FDIC lose power

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Electrical, but hey! we can dream can't we? From the story here : "Most power at the State Department was lost and employ...

Steve Gruber Show grudgingly admits middle class needs rescuing

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Hm, imagine that. Here , in "Fracking Rescuing Middle Class", concluding: "Hats off to fracking and the American en...

At $2.53/gallon, the national average price of gasoline now officially represents a "sale"

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The very long-term average price of a gallon of gasoline in June 2013 dollars going back to 1918, as reporte...

Libertarian free-trade presidents named BUSH get the most blame for lost manufacturing jobs

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Since Jimmy Carter took office in January 1977, during whose term manufacturing jobs reached their zenith of 19.5 million, 5.6 million n...
Sunday, December 14, 2014

Despite big declines, completed foreclosures in October 2014 are still running 95% above normal

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So says Corelogic here . Completed foreclosures in October 2014 came to 41,000 nationally, 20,000 higher than the 2000-2006 average of...

Ted Cruz blows it again, big time: stalled appointments to make it through lame duck

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From the Washington Post story here : "As Democrats and a bloc of conservative Republicans jousted on parliamentary disputes on a...

Suddenly it's important news to ABC that Republican superfunder Koch Brother isn't a conservative

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Here  from George Stephanopoulos: “I’m basically a libertarian, and I’m a conservative on economic matters, and I’m a social liberal...

Speaking of Grubers, this, from the things you thought were true but are not department

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Adolf Hitler was not a Schicklgruber, and proven not to be already in the early 1950s, as recounted here in 1990 in the New York Times:...

I don't care what their first names are, all Grubers are banned from this site because . . .

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. . . in the end they're all idiots.

US Senate votes 56-40 last night just before 10PM to approve Cromnibus spending bill

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The 40 votes against this p.o.s. illustrate the minority which represents what passes for the extreme wings of the two political gangs whic...

L'affaire Lena Dunham disturbs libertarian P. J. O'Rourke

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Here . There is yet hope for our world.

Stupid things heard on the Steve Gruber Show radio program last week

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Both the AM drive-time host, Steve Gruber, a libertarian for whom every opponent is taken as a challenge to his manhood, and his weekly ...
Saturday, December 13, 2014

Is the economy up because wine drinkers wake up and can't remember where they left their underwear?

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It doesn't say if you can wear these home. Both indicators are up, wine sales and underwear sales. Stories here and here  and...

The best way to get John Boehner to do what you want him to do

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Reduce the size of his congressional district to 30,000 as the framers of the constitution intended.

Crazy WaPo article portrays middle class as complete creature of government spending

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Here , focusing on the anecdotal history of the middle class in Downey, California, where the removal of spending on the space program has...

Obama's war on growth: Per capita measure shows GDP didn't recover to 2007 level until 3Q2013

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So says Ironman, here : "Going by this measure we see that it wasn't until the third quarter of 2013 that the U.S. economy ...
Friday, December 12, 2014

Gold is the last man standing: Gold/oil ratio soars to 21.21 as oil tanks to 57.56

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Two men enter, one man leaves Of all the commodities, it is gold which continues to hang on, averaging in the low 1200-range in recent...