Author: Simon

Rush is on fire. Listen. I will update this later.

There are more at Doug Ross. Cross Posted at Power and Control

I was sure Obama’s election coupled with his agenda would lead to a failure that would be obvious to the majority of Americans within six months of his inauguration. It has taken less than six weeks. I read an anecdote some where today about a guy who was checking out his purchases at a grocery…

It looks like Obama fever is starting to wane. At least that is what the anecdotal evidence from Larry Kudlow would indicate. Noteworthy up here on Wall Street, a great many Obama supporters — especially hedge-fund types who voted for “change” — are becoming disillusioned with the performances of Obama and Treasury man Geithner. There…

It is rather obvious that this is not a music video. Despite the fact that images of naked and semi-naked women are involved. Cross Posted at Power and Control

Big protests in our nations capitol. It seems that Congress runs on a coal fired power plant and that the Greenines are going to be out in force today to shut it down. Now this is not a bad thing. Congress should be the first to live by the policies it intends to impose on…

The Obama Administration is working on a treaty to cut mercury pollution. The Obama administration has reversed years of U.S. policy by calling for a treaty to cut mercury pollution, which it described as the world’s gravest chemical problem. Some 6,000 tons of mercury enter the environment each year, about a third generated by power…

Purchasing Magazine is taking a look at leading economic indicators. And as you can see by the chart above it looks like the worst is behind us. The upswing has not yet started but the rate of fall appears to be declining. The actual turn around is likely to be about six to nine months…

Clayton Cramer has an absolutely hilarious view of the TARP fiasco. Click on the Click here thingy. An interesting story on how that came to be where it is. My #2 son sent it in an e-mail with the subject line “This is amusing”. And I had to tell him: yes it is. So I…

Yeah. Of course. That is ridiculous.Except it may be true. There is sufficient and consistent evidence that alcohol use is a causal risk factor for injury. For cannabis use, however, there is conflicting evidence; a detrimental dose-response effect of cannabis use on psychomotor and other relevant skills has been found in experimental laboratory studies, while…