July 19, 2009 – 9:58 am
Over at FiveThirtyEight, True Believer Nate Silver is a wee bit upset about something John Hinderaker wrote about the cool period in Minneapolis, Minnesota, which John compared to the Year Without A Summer (1816,) which, yes, is a stretch. Nate goes to lengths to point out that the average temperature has been pretty much right […]
July 18, 2009 – 8:49 am
This bad As the old blues song puts it, “It’s Cheaper to Keep Her.” That may sum up a divorce rate that’s been declining as the economy founders. Marion County divorce filings are down about 20 percent from this time last year. Nationally, filings are down by as much as 50 percent. Family law expert […]
July 18, 2009 – 8:38 am
It Lives! Though, I thought zombies were supposed to eat brains and grunt, not go all BDS Fidel Castro blames the coup in Honduras on the U.S. Embassy in that Central American country and other American diplomats in the region appointed during the administration of George W. Bush. “Unscrupulous characters of the extreme right who […]
July 17, 2009 – 9:26 am
Wait a moment, I thought we were supposed to be planting lots and lots of trees in order to stop the spector of man made global warming so that the Earth cools down and the seas stop rising? Heck, there is a large part of the House AGW bill all about planting trees. No? Jobs […]
July 17, 2009 – 9:05 am
Yeah, yeah, I know, discussing health care is boring as dry white toast, like discussing taxes, like discussing school with Mom when you were thirteen. ZZZZZZZZ. But, something tells me that the CBO Director, Douglas Elmendorf, is going to be out of a job very soon if he keeps telling the truth about Democrat agenda […]
July 16, 2009 – 9:46 am
Interesting list from Mortimer Zuckerman on just how bad Obama’s economy is doing. And, yes, it is now Obama’s economy. It’s his Generational Theft Act that is doing nothing except put the US deeper into debt and providing no stimulus to create jobs. It’s his global warming and healthcare legislation that makes companies hold off […]
July 15, 2009 – 8:51 am
OK, there is really no sex in this, but, caught your attention, right? Health care is generally a boring subject to discus….zzzzzzzz. Where was I? Right. A rather boring subject, like taxes. But, it is something that affects us all, and the Democrats will make SURE that it affects us all even more, right in […]
July 13, 2009 – 8:36 am
Of course, don’t take it as a promise House Speaker Nancy Pelosi(D-Calif.) will read the entirety of the final text of the health care reform bill before the House votes on it and will provide the public “ample time†to review the legislation, says Pelosi’s spokesman. However, the speaker’s office declined to specify what is meant by “ample […]
July 12, 2009 – 9:40 am
I remember going in to NYC one weekend with a bunch of friends, back when I was a senior in high school (yes, that was a while ago. Ha ha. Thanks). We were at a spot getting a bite to eat, while watching this guy walk all the way around building while keeping both hands […]
July 11, 2009 – 9:09 am
Let’s go to the horse’s *ss, er, mouth Former Vice President Al Gore declared that the Congressional climate bill will help bring about “global governance.†“I bring you good news from the U.S., “Gore said on July 7, 2009 in Oxford at the Smith School World Forum on Enterprise and the Environment, sponsored by UK […]
