Archive for December, 2010
Though It Fuels Your Cash Machine, We Will Not Eat Your Pork so Green.
In this morning’s Clearing the Browser Tabs post, I wrote this: If you were on the fence about the President’s tax deal compromise, the amount of useless pork in it should knock you onto the “no” side. Well, I have more details and I don’t think you’re going to like them. Jamie Dupree broke out the [...]
Clearing the Browser Tabs – The Congested Friday Edition
With me, colds take one of two forms. Either it hits me so hard it lays me out for a couple days or it just hangs on me like a pack of monkeys wearing lead-lined body armor. This week, I’ve been dealing with a cold of the latter kind and it’s slowed down my writing [...]
Could States Kill their Debt and Public Sector Unions at the Same Time?
James Pethokoukis thinks he’s sussed out a very clever game being played right now by Congressional Republicans. If he’s right, and they pull it off, it could solve two of the biggest problems our country is facing: underfunded public employee compensation and public sector unions. Congressional Republicans appear to be quietly but methodically executing a [...]
The Delivery Presents – Two Things Are Certain, and They’re Both in This Show
I originally had three or four topics lined up for each half of Episode 68 but, as so often happens, I got on a roll and had to leave a few of them on the table. I imagine we’ll be talking about the President’s tax deal for at least the rest of the year, and [...]
Clearing the Browser Tabs – Pigford Thursday Edition
While our attention has been diverted by the President’s Grand Tax Compromise and the Democrats’ attempt to shove through a poorly-disguised illegal immigrant amnesty bill, the White House is quietly bilking us out of well over four billion dollars. The scheme is colloquially called “Pigford”, after the black farmer who rightly sued the Federal government [...]
On the Matter of Freedom, We Should Never Be on China’s Side
On Friday, the Nobel committee will award the Nobel Peace Prize to someone who truly deserves it, a Chinese dissident named Liu Xiaobo. Mr. Liu won’t be there to receive his award because he is in a Chinese prison, serving an 11-year sentence for “subversion”. His wife won’t be there either, because the tyrants in [...]
Clearing the Browser Tabs – Away from the Computer Wednesday Edition
Blogging is going to be light today. I have a meeting to attend and there’s no telling just how long it’ll last, so I likely won’t be around a computer until I get home from work sometime in the early evening. The Delivery podcast will be up today, as soon as I can get the [...]
President Barack Obama: Truly a Uniter, Not A Divider
Leave it to Barack Obama to unite right, middle, and left in opposition to perhaps the only real political compromise he’s made during his administration. Today, the left almost literally exploded with rage at what they see as a scurrilous betrayal of perhaps the President’s most important campaign promise to them. Their anger wasn’t even [...]
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