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I Guess Adam Smith is the DJ, Then?

Jimmie | January 26, 2010 | Comments (0)

A rap about the debate between the two most influential economics on the left and right? Well, okay. Sure. Why not? Sean Hackbarth fills in all the details for those of you who aren’t quite hip to who Hayek and Keynes are (Hint: Keynes is the guy whose principles Barack Obama is trying to use [...]

Great, Mr. President. I Can’t Even Pay You a Complement Before You Screw It Up.

Jimmie | January 25, 2010 | Comments (0)

I was all set to praise the President for his plan to freeze spending on a small part of the budget in an effort to save about $250 billion dollars over the next ten years. I really was. I wasn’t going to spend much time noting that our current deficit under this President is now [...]

Tales of Government Payback, the Automotive Sector Edition

Jimmie | December 24, 2009 | Comments (0)

Promises with this government aren’t kept so much as they’re repaid. If you haven’t stuffed a few million dollars in earnest money into the coffers of certain politicians, don’t expect that Washington’s going to look after you. Decades ago, when Deborah Hampton was a young divorced mother of two, her father encouraged her to go [...]

The Economic Forecast is Settled!

Jimmie | December 14, 2009 | Comments (3)

Apparently, this adminstration is bound and determined to drag each branch of science out behind the White House and put two in the back of its head. They’ve pretty much finished off climatology with their faith-based approach to climate science. Now, they’ve sent the director of the National Economic Council to do the same to [...]

You Can Almost Hear the Criminals Lining Up to Get at Obamacare

Jimmie | November 21, 2009 | Comments (0)

I found a couple articles over the last couple days to help you get adjusted to the new regime should Obamacare actually pass. First, from Britain, using the system currently admired by Democrats, we find that hospitals are admitting patients who don’t need to be admitted because they can’t treat them in the emergency room [...]

Did the IG Scandal Start Because of a Sexual Misconduct Case?

Jimmie | November 21, 2009 | Comments (0)

Hmmm… A congressional report released Friday includes allegations that D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee mishandled a complaint that Kevin M. Johnson, her current fiance, engaged in inappropriate sexual conduct with a student at a California charter school in 2007. At least one staff member at the St. Hope Academy resigned in protest over [...]

Don’t Bother Us With Your Primitive Accounting Superstitions. There Are Jobs Being Created or Saved!

Jimmie | November 19, 2009 | Comments (1)

There seems to be a lack of alacrity in the Obama administration over the fact that its means of telling us where it spent our trillion dollars’ worth of stimulus money is slightly less rigorous than room full of blind, insane gibbons flinging darts marked “stimulus money” toward a map of the United States. When asked about [...]

What Does $50 Million Buy You? A “Not My Job, Pal” Quote from a SpokesBureaucrat.

Jimmie | November 17, 2009 | Comments (1)

Apropos of my post yesterday on the phantom “saved or created” jobs here in Maryland (and Eddiebear’s national scoop!), I notice that other folks have found that the administration has stowed a few extra congressional districts in their states, too. Dafydd Ab Hugh discovered that California is actually 44 Congressional Districts larger than he thought [...]