Reason number 154,976: one third of all Americans on welfare live there.
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California sounds a (slight) retreat in its ongoing war against arithmetic.
Category Archives: Economics
The Power Of Property Rights
Pictures of East Germany, before and after the fall of the Wall.
As An Energy Secretary…
…Steven Chu is a great scientist. But there’s nothing in his experience or education that would equip him for running a federal department, or to be a competent venture capitalist with other peoples’ money, and with billions of losses to the taxpayer and energy prices going through the roof, it shows. The notion that he deserves anything short of an F is laughable.
Don’t Know Much About History
In attacking his critics as “flat earthers,” Obama screws up.
Yes, people who, unlike him, actually understand the math and physics (and business prospects) of alternative and conventional energy are “flat earthers.” Once again, the man is impervious to irony. And how insufferable this kind of thing is.
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Heh: “Obama in Tucson & today: “Make sure we talk with each other in a way that heals, not a way that wounds, you Flat-earthers.”
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Where Obama gets his history.
Doesn’t explain the Rutherford B. Hayes slander though. And against a man who was wounded four times freeing Obama’s ancestors. Wait, what?
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Don’t know much about energy, either. The US has sixty times as much oil as Obama claims.
It’s almost as though he just makes stuff up.
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#BarackObamasPresidentialFacts:
“Purple Hayes” was the first Jim Hendrix song about a president.
They’re hilarious. I think I’ll steal MfK’s from comments and add it to the mix.
Renting A Home
Is it about to get very expensive? Just one more catastrophic result of decades of horrible government policies.
Grad School
…and the career lies.
I think this bubble is starting to pop.
The Beatings In The Not-So-Golden State Will Continue
…until morale improves. California tax revenues have plunged. And Sacramento’s solution? To increase tax rates, of course.
But How Severe Was It?
Romney told Glenn Beck five years ago that the individual mandate was “ultimate conservatism.”
The Coming Health-Care Crisis
If you want to see the future of the nation, look no further than Massachusetts. It’s already getting hard to find a primary-care physician and it’s only going to get worse.
Demon Coal In Canada
The CBC comes to its senses on climate change. I hope that this is a trend.