Category: Uncategorized

When I read that lefty actor Matt Damon is being urged to run for president, my first impulse was to laugh. After all, the far left is promoting him. Like many other progressives, Damon has grown weary of Democrats looking for phony centrism instead of standing up to a shockingly far-right Republican party. Against this…

You may have heard that the EPA is planning to shut down roughly 20% of coal generated electrical capacity by 2015. Francois Broquin, a co-author of reports on coal by Bernstein Research, said the combined rules could push as much as 20 percent of U.S. coal-fired electric generation capacity to retire by 2015. “Obviously that…

Speaking of new management, if this Washington Times report (via a comment here) is correct, it looks like the current administration may have literally become a player in the illegal drug business: In an effort to prevent a Los Zetas takeover, Uncle Sam has gotten into bed with the rival Sinaloa cartel, which has close…

While it always annoys me to have to read foreign news items to learn what’s going on with the United States government, I guess I should be glad that thanks to the First Amendment and the internet I can keep abreast of what agencies like NASA are now up to. According to this report in…

As a follow up to Dave’s recent post Cowen and Krugman and Volcker, Oh My! I’d like to present this little factiod about the Philly Fed and recent prognostications (via Zero Hedge). And here is Wall Street’s economist brigade again proving they are worth every penny based on their predictive skills: we just had an…

Who was most responsible for what we call the “War on Drugs”? This is a separate question than the wisdom of the war, but I have noticed that a lot of people like to point at Reagan, while others point at Nixon. M. Simon aside, few contemporary political discussions mention the role of Harry J.…

I got a link from Instapundit to an article bashing the usual and continued left wing idiocy and especially its connection to the recent flash riots. Comments like this one pop-up regularly in such posts. It’s all just more evidence that liberals are mentally ill. They cannot figure out cause and effect. Logic and facts…

Addressing an argument on whether gov’t spending creates growth at all, Tyler Cowen cautions us to beware the trend towards favoring bloggers’ interpretations over the more formal literature, noting that Krugman’s use of Keynesian thinking should be distinguished from Keynesian thought generally. As for me, I’ll just bang the Rahn curve drum here again, and…

The infernal slowness of all things online has been taking its toll on my sanity. I am old enough to remember the dialup days, when I would type a URL into one of the early browsers (I started with Chameleon and then moved up to the new Netscape 1), and then you would just wait.…

You know the drug has hit home when dying cancer patients are being robbed and beaten savagely for their pain-killing narcotics.  As if that weren’t bad enough, the media put out deliberately redacted stories to prevent us “little people” from knowing what  happened. A Fredericksburg cancer patient is recovering after being brutally beaten during a…

The post I just did Liberty? We Can’t Afford It – Says Coulter got me to thinking about how to end the welfare state. Coulter is incensed that welfare money would be going to support dopers if drugs were legalized (as if that isn’t the case currently). Well Ann is not too bright. Just think…

Glenn Reynolds recently linked an April post he wrote about some poor schlub who found himself raided by a SWAT Team because person(s) unknown had downloaded kiddie porn using his unsecured WiFi signal. That had prompted this advice from a reader: Never, EVER set a password on your Wi-Fi router. Background : 30 years in…

I don’t especially like Rick Perry. (So far, at least.) My main objection to him politically is grounded in his longstanding support for sodomy laws, something I find annoying in this day and age. It is one thing to oppose gay marriage, but to support imprisoning adults for consenting sexual activity with other adults strikes…

A really smart woman discusses the pleasures and pitfalls of high IQ dating. Many people equate high IQ with “high achieving”, but they are two distinct things. Women with an above-average intelligence (IQ range of 110-130) are likely to be professionals: lawyers, nurses, dentists, mid-level civil servants, journalists, managers, teachers, pharmacists, librarians, or the like.…

What’s the world coming to? The youth of today are not only boasting about turds, they’re putting Best-Of videos on Youtube! Yes, they’re actually into uploading their pet frogs’ “greatest shits” videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRNaJhCtHwk&feature=related For a late-night tie-in with the world’s contemporary economic problems (hey, this blog is old, but I do try!), there’s a 17-page…

I am getting a little tired of the way so many people throw up their hands and blame “social media” when incidents like this “flash mob” theft spree occur. The caption reads, according to the video, the officer refused to investigate the crime, and only viewed this incident as shoplifting. IMO, attitudes like those of…

Because I REALLY like the politics of the guy she sleeps with.

From Keeping Up Appearances – Looters Brought To “Justice”. Cross Posted at Power and Control

That’s a real mouthful, and I don’t know whether it is the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department’s way of  expressing frustration, or whether it is a sign of changing attitudes towards free speech. Here’s the background: LOS ANGELES (AP) — A rapper could face criminal charges after a tweet from his account incited a telephone flash…

Reason’s Jesse Walker looks at the Iowa caucus numbers: The results are in from the Ames Straw Poll in Iowa, and Michele Bachmann has emerged victorious with 4,823 votes. Ron Paul, the only bearable candidate in the running (*), finished a very close second with 4,671. That asterisk stands for Gary Johnson, who ran technically…