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Fans of the TV show Seinfeld might remember the episode called, “The Summer of George” where reoccurring character George Costanza spends the severance money he received from his former employer, the New York Yankees on shall we say questionable things, with his summer ultimately ending with him in the hospital. James Taranto in a column for [...] Ms. McArdle exercising her 2nd amendment rights. (2nd Anniversary re-print. Original posted 2/10/2010) At a rather young age (10?) I recall reading an article about standardized tests. Researchers were doing studies to determine if standardized tests unfairly measured “low income” and/or “minority” children. The example they used was one of those common, simile problems often [...] (2nd Anniversary re-print. Original posted 12/01/2009) I hope I don’t offend anyone; this is a sincere question and I am very interested in learning what y’all (you’se guys for Rich and Stosh, you’ins for Eric) have to say. I haven’t looked at the numbers but there is no question our nation graduates way, way, way too [...] This one is on us America — and quite frankly you can thank us too World. I haven’t talked to Rufus but since I know he is independently upper middle class he won’t mind if we forgo our usual fee. We have solved America’s problems in our Friday Open Thread. Who knew [...] It is often said that public cannot recall anything that happened more than 72 hours ago. Yet, we Threedonians have longer memories than that, don’t we? Excepting Fritz of course, what with the impending Alzheimer’s and all. (He’ll forget I wrote that by the time he reaches the end of the post, so I’m not [...] David Marcoe, in the Open Thread linked to this post from the blog The Other MaCain. In it Robert Stacy McCain reiterates the very important point that House elections are not national elections, but local ones. And just because Obama’s ratings are in the toilet and Congress’ national standing is in the sewer [...] Did Germany outstrip England’s growth — reaching industrial parity in 1900 because it didn’t have copyright laws? This article from Speigel online makes that claim. The entire country seemed to be obsessed with reading. The sudden passion for books struck even booksellers as strange and in 1836 led literary critic Wolfgang Menzel to declare Germans [...] Here is a sobering piece from The American — The AEI’s journal: The FOMC’s August 10 meeting took place against the backdrop of a slew of disappointing economic data. From weak housing market data to discouraging employment numbers, and from swooning consumer confidence indicators to weak bank lending figures, one could not reasonably entertain doubt that [...] From the London Sunday Telegraph: One local authority is using its budget to pay for the services of a prostitute in Amsterdam, while others have said visits to lap dancing clubs are permissible under new policies which transfer funds directly to those who receive care from social services. Holidays abroad, subscriptions for internet dating and driving lessons [...] As the old saying goes… you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make him watch the WNBA. Why feminists don’t get the American indifference with professional women’s sports — even by wimmins — is beyond ludicrous. Say this with me now feminist sociologists… WOMENS PRO SPORTS… SUCK. (except for [...] The Cardinals and Reds had a bench clearing brawl yesterday… the comments that sparked the brawl? From Reds 2B Brandon Phillips on Monday: “I’d play against these guys with one leg,” Phillips told reporters before the Reds’ 7-3 loss to St. Louis on Monday. “We have to beat these guys. I hate the Cardinals. All [...] Something in the water these days seems to have resurrected the shade of Johnny Paycheck. Everyone’s heard by now of the Jet Blue flight attendant Steven Slater who blew up at a rude passenger, grabbed a couple of brewskis, activated the emergency chute slid down drove home and was arrested while going Brokeback Mountain [...] From MY FOXNY: Your thumbprint might soon be the key to an afternoon candy bar. A Massachusetts based vending machine company is joinng the growing ranks of companies that are field-testing new technologies. Next Generation Vending and Food Service is experimenting with biometric vending machines that would allow a user to tie a credit card to [...] H/T man Shane is two for two today — this time featuring the mighty Thaddeus McCotter!!! Share on Facebook According to Larry Kudlow, the White House economic team is panicking. These people make bad decisions when cocky and calm… what wonders will appear in panic mode? The mind reels. Or maybe the Democrats will come up with a new infrastructure-spending bill, perhaps for green technologies and whatnot. Or maybe they’ll extend unemployment benefits [...] Talking late this afternoon with THE WEEKLY STANDARD, Republican congressman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin blasted New York Times columnist Paul Krugman for his “intellectualy lazy” attack on Ryan’s fiscal “Roadmap.” In his Friday column, Krugman called Ryan a “charlatan” and his plan to reform the welfare state and eliminate the [...] Part of the big lie of feminism has been the notion that men are lazy and women can and do alot more than men. After all they work hard outside the home and then do ALL the chores at home too. Right? Wrong. A new study from the London School of [...] Here’s an interesting article from a journal called In Character about how we used to be in awe of our machines and how now that we know less and less about how they work — we take them for granted. Visiting the Paris Exhibition in 1900, the American writer Henry Adams saw something so remarkable he [...] From The Wall Street Journal’s Real Time Economics Blog: A new report from the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania lays out a stark picture of an Amish population boom. The Amish population — a religious group that limits its member’s access to conveniences like telephones and electric lights [...] The Atlantic has the newly-released price for the government-backed Chevy Volt. Chevy’s new plug-in hybrid Volt is a pretty cool concept, but it will cost you. After nearly a year of price speculation, GM announced today that the vehicle will start at $41,000. If you take the $7,500 credit paid by Uncle Sam on plug-in vehicles [...] National Review’s Rich Lowry has a well-rounded syndicated column today on the administration’s tax policies. White House economic adviser Christina Romer is off-message. Her offense is nearly as grave as that of White House spokesman Robert Gibbs, who let slip that Democrats are in danger of losing the House. Romer’s indiscretion was made [...] Here’s a pretty good piece from The Economist documenting (finally — they’re documented!) the mass exodus (I prefer “Brown Out” to Brown Flight) from Arizona in anticipation of Arizona SB 1070’s going into affect. Here’s a bit: While the law targets undocumented migrants, legal residents and their U.S.-born children are getting caught up in the [...] Rich Lowry makes a point. Many of Obama’s apologists say that his political problems overwhelmingly are the product of a weak economy. Certainly if the unemployment rate were 5%, the political landscape would be different. But Obama’s supporters rarely admit how much his election and the super-sized Democratic majorities in Congress were [...] Getting rid of the cancer that is the “big spender” in politics is not going to be resolved merely in one or two elections. It is going t be a long process — if this piece by Marc Thiessen is true. Not only do we need fiscal conservatives in the Senate and House… [...] I posted this link to a very insightful and “well worth the read” essay on America’s ruling class vs. the majority. Saturday’s London Telegraph had this great op-ed from Janet Daley on America’s new class warfare — and how like Britain’s it. Here’s a bit, read the whole thing here. But Joe’s warning was [...] California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has approval ratings as low as former Governor Gray Davis — the guy recalled and replaced back in 2003. Arnold gets a little love and there’s a whole lot of common sense from The Los Angeles Times of all places. The problem is California’s unique and unworkable system of governing, [...] Birthright citizenship? Passport tourism is a big hit in China. From The Washington Post: What can $1,475 buy you in modern China? Not a Tiffany diamond or a mini-sedan, say Robert Zhou and Daisy Chao. But for that price, they guarantee you something more lasting, with unquestioned future benefits: a U.S. passport and citizenship [...] George W. Bush caught a lot of heat when he said that illegal aliens do jobs “Americans won’t do”. As each passing year of college freshman come through my classroom I think he is right — and as I look at many of my colleagues (especially the Gen x and Y) I am even [...] Share on Facebook Thomas Sowell has a great piece over at National Review Online on Obama’s stimulus and its effect on the unemployed. Here’s a bit: Last year, the Wall Street Journal reported that the velocity of circulation of money in the American economy had plummeted to its lowest level in half a century. Money that people [...] Ross Douthat’s latest is on the new craze in defaulted mortgages – the rich, or the faux-rich. Those with million-dollar mortgages are defaulting at twice the rate of those with mere normal middle-class mortgages. Guess which mortgage holders are expected to pick up the tab? This is the inherent condition, and ultimately the result, of [...] The um… lady above not only gets a free lawyer, and a free phone call… today she can get a free meal at Chick-fil-A!! God Bless America!! Share on Facebook Professors take a fair amount of bashing — and often rightly so. The problem isn’t professors per se — the problem is that people listen to the wrong professors. Examples 1-4 (OK… 2-5) here from Germany (der Spiegel): In 1998, four renegade German professors tried to stop the introduction of the euro with a [...] Since Floyd has copped to listening to NPR I suppose it’s safe for me to come out of the closet. Ira Glass has one of the most annoying voices to ever earn a living on radio. He can pack more condescension and superiority into a simple, “Good Morning” than Shakespearean trained Lionel Barrymore’s, “You’re worth [...] The democratization of quality of life in this country has been a recent theme of mine, so it’s with some satisfaction I see others like Victor Davis Hanson talking about how middle class life, and even some upper lower class life, is quite different than it was a generation ago. Jonah Goldberg touched on this theme [...] Calling blackhawk! Blackhawk answer your phone! Do I have a job for you… White guy in a tie! From The Atlantic: Not long ago I was offered work as a quality-control expert with an American company in China I’d never heard of. No experience necessary—which was good, because I had none. I’d [...] First time home buyer tax credits… they work! From CNN Money: More than 1,200 prison inmates, including 241 serving life sentences, defrauded the government of $9.1 million in tax credits reserved for first-time homebuyers, according to a Treasury Department report released Wednesday. Treasury’s inspector general also found that thousands of people filed multiple claims or made [...] Socialists and green whack jobs do no play. Witness this story from Spain — courtesy of Pajamas Media: Spain’s Dr. Gabriel Calzada — the author of a damning study concluding that Spain’s “green jobs” energy program has been a catastrophic economic failure — was mailed a dismantled bomb on Tuesday by solar energy company Thermotechnic. Says [...] Share on Facebook And the Bible is right: 3 Sons are a heritage from the LORD, 4 Like arrows in the hands of a warrior [...] From The Moscow Times: The reliance on oil and gas — which account for some 60 percent of budget revenues — meant that Russia felt the global crisis much more deeply than most of its emerging market peers, witnessing the deepest economic slump in 15 years in 2009. Medvedev, halfway through his presidency, has made modernization his [...] On Thursday I posted a link to an interactive map at Forbes showing moves from county to county across the entire USA from 2008 IRS data. That post is here. The above is a gif of Wayne County, Michigan home to the City of Detroit. The red lines are moves away from [...] |
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