Citizens Against Government Waste has declared Senator Shelby “Porker of the Month” for his support of Constellation. These people need to be shamed.
Category Archives: Business
The Gulf Economy Is Saved
At least temporarily. A federal judge has struck down the idiotic and mendacious drilling moratorium.
My prediction: the lamestream media and the administration will attempt to make hay out of the fact that Judge Feldman is a Reagan appointee. I expect them to appeal, unfortunately. But at least the ban is lifted for now, or will be in thirty days.
[Update a few minutes later]
They’ve already said they’re going to appeal. But I don’t think they can get it reinstated until they win the appeal, if they do (and I suspect they won’t). I wonder if they’ll try to get the appellate court to take it as an emergency case? No, I don’t really. You know they will.
Too Big To Fail?
Will there be a federal bailout of California? As a Californian, I’m firmly on record as opposing it, so don’t get mad at me when they pick your pocket to prop up our public-employee unions. If I were Whitman, I’d be running on a platform of abolishing them.
Apollo Is Over
…and the day of public/private partnerships in space has arrived. See also Sam Dinkin’s article on individuals and individualists picking up the slack. Like some of the Japanese soldiers holed up on remote Pacific islands after the war, though, Apollo Cargo Cultists will continue to fight a rear-guard action.
The Failure Of The Stimulus
Medvedev For President
Russia is getting rid of the capital gains tax. But President Obama doesn’t think that’s fair.
Great Schemes Don’t Work
Some thoughts on the impending collapse of the euro, and how much the UK may end up on the hook regardless of the fact that they kept sterling. I found this part interesting, though:
Again and again in politics, great schemes don’t work – Soviet Communism, for example, and now the euro. Rational people tend to conclude that, because a scheme doesn’t work, it will quickly stop. Unfortunately, rational people are wrong. Bad political schemes are usually given up only when they have been tested literally to destruction. It would be much better for Europe if the euro had never happened, and I long for it somehow to fade away, but the process of destruction will be horrendous, and it is only just beginning.
I think that we were seeing the same thing with Constellation and NASA’s five- and ten-year plans. Interestingly, the Founders didn’t have a great scheme, because they understood that they don’t work. That’s why they wrote a constitution of limited government. Unfortunately, the great schemers have managed to circumvent it over the past two and a third centuries. Their great scheme is on the verge of collapse, as well, and as usual, all will pay, guilty and innocent alike.
Is This A Gag Book?
Good lord, I think it’s serious
In his historic rise to the most powerful position in the world, Barack Obama single-handedly altered the concept of leadership around the world. Now, Shel Leanne—the expert on the Obama way of leadership—explains how to thrive in any business setting by adopting the same skill set.
Leadership the Barack Obama Way examines the ins and outs of the leadership style the President of the United States rode to heights of power nobody dreamed possible just a short time ago. Leanne breaks down Obama’s style into easily digestible pieces that you can apply in any situation.
Actually, I think that the pieces have already been digested.
Now That’s Desperation
North Korea is finally turning to the free market? I don’t understand why. I was under the impression that the government was indifferent to starvation.
Advice For The Administration
…in which it has no interest: how to waive the Jones Act.
I’ve got a better idea, for which there will be even less appetite in this administration — repeal it. It’s a protectionist relic of the last century. Along with Davis-Bacon (which is also racist in intent). Not to mention the Wagner Act.