Archive for August, 2011
Clearing the Browser Tabs – The Changing Plans of Leviathin Government Monday Edition
In one of his speeches that weren’t in any way campaign speeches, so you just put that thought right out of your head, President Obama suggested to a farmer that he should contact the USDA with his concerns about a number of coming regulations. See, the farmer had heard — and don’t ask me where [...]
Pity Maxine Waters. She Just Realized She Can’t Build a Jobs Bill out of Spite and Corruption.
If you built a ranking system for risible loudmouths, you’d have to rank Rep. Maxine Waters (D – Greed) somewhere in the top five, if not at the very top of the list. Whenever she speaks, the intelligence of the entire planet drops a solid ten points. She is to stupidity what the sun is [...]
Clearing the Browser Tabs – The Last Educational Straw Sunday Edition
I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that this story of how a teacher named Jana Dean intentionally and dishonestly pushed her global warming cult beliefs on innocent children should be the final straw for most of us. I won’t even give you the caveat that there are good teachers out [...]
Clearing the Browser Tabs – At Least It’s Over Saturday Edition
It’s been an odd and frustrating week around here and I’m glad to stumble into the weekend, where I can take a few hours to relax and regroup. With luck, when Monday comes, my phone line will be repaired (or at least it’ll be done by the end of the day) and I’ll be able [...]
The Delivery Presents – The Show No Stinking Phone Company Can Stop
I’d like to thank the fine striking layabouts at Verizon for Episode 107. I wrote earlier in the week about my telephone/internet problems last week (which started the Tuesday night I recorded Episode 106), which were measurable worse Tuesday night. I couldn’t keep a stable connection long enough to run Skype and UStream so, with [...]
Clearing the Browser Tabs – Great Moments in Government Meddling Friday Edition
Some months ago, I wrote about the Community Reinvestment Act and the considerable part it played in the financial crisis from which we still haven’t recovered. Ed Driscoll’s post yesterday tied the CRA in to more financial deviltry, namely the bogus work done by ratings agencies like Standard and Poor’s. I think between his post [...]
Ezra Klein: Professional Left? Me? Perish the Thought!
I know I pick on Ezra Klein, who blogs professionally for the Washington Post, quite often, but it’s only because he deserves it. As I’ve shown, he has a tendency to take a basic left-wing talking point, wrap it up in a softer shell, paint it with a couple plausible-looking statistics (if he’s feeling energetic), [...]
Clearing the Browser Tabs – Turning the Tables with Relentless Cheer Thursday Edition
Were I a Republican strategist, I’d be studying this Congressional approval poll very carefully. The GOP could score another big win in 2012, and perhaps even take control of the Senate, but that won’t happen unless the party leaders understand that we still are not particularly impressed with them. The set of people with a [...]
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