Definition of Progressivism

Imposing economic policies that force millions of people to lose their jobs and begin relying, perhaps for the first time in their lives, on welfare subsidies, then turn around and brag about how many people your social programs are helping!
See how effective our program is?  We are helping millions now, where before we were only helping [...]

How much is a trillion dollars? – Updated

If you haven’t seen it already, the UK Sun does a great job of breaking down how much actual money is a “trillion” dollars:
72 years to print a trillion dollars
The US Bureau Of Engraving And Printing produces 38million notes a day, so printing one trillion new notes from scratch and working seven days a week [...]

Agenda 21: The Birth Parent of Cap and Trade

 Well, since the ”Cap-n-Trade” Bill, code named H.R. 2454: American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, aka the Waxman-Markey contribution to national decline has passed into law, thanks quite literally to the eight Republicans who voted for it, Republicans who it will be shown, I’m sure, to have some sort of financial interest to gain, I [...]

The joys of “free” Health Care

Under the heading of, “You Get What You Pay For…”, I share with you this link to a friendly neighborhood blogger from Canadistan, Mayor of the delightful burg of Mitchieville,
No Room At The Inn (my title)
This is what *free* gets you. You wait in long lines for free, you wait 8 months for an MRI for free, you [...]

Cap and Trade Passes

This is what a Democratically controlled congress gets you.
Cap and Trade in all it’s glory. Hello $5 a gallon for gas, and double or triple your electricity bill in the next 10 years.
Bastards.  We are so phuq’d.

Global Warming and The Downing Street Memo

In the run up to the second Iraq war, there came to light a document which came to be know as the “Downing Street Memo.”  The crux of this document is that it reflected the author’s concerns that the culture in the White House at the time was such that there was only one right [...]

When the government fears the people…

You know, as I’ve watched and read and listened to all the various outrage, pontification, justification and sometimes even downplaying of the increasingly fervent protests in Iran, vs. the regime’s increasingly violent tactics in suppressing them, I bemusedly have begun to wonder.  Sort of a compare and contrast kind of thing.
I look at the protestors [...]

Obama’s Fairy Dust

I found a great article in Forbes magazine on the current state of disarray in the banking/finance industry, and a pretty good run down of the causes, what did happen vs. what SHOULD have happened, etc., entitled “Obama’s Fairy Dust” by John Tamny.
Here is one especially telling quote:
In that sense, the true contributor to our economic [...]

The Hidden Costs of ObamaCare

Let me break this down, Barney-style, on one of those “unintended consequences” no one like to talk about.  Here’s how it works:
Obama insists that children, the poor, the elderly MUST have health insurance, despite the fact that they can’t afford it.  This is Social InjusticeTM.  Obama declares that the best/only way to provide this service is to [...]

Media Coverage of TEA Party Protests – Compare and Contrast

Well, on CNN, the Tea Party protests got only one link, but amazingly enough, the article was balanced, fair, and by no means a hit piece.  I encourage you to read it.  It lays out the basics of what the protests are about, and even seems to paint them in if not a positive light, [...]