Monica Davey of The New York Times on the Kansas idea of the proposed “Office of the Repealer”: In some corners of the country, people seem to have grown so grumpy about the tangle of government rules and regulations that it may be easier for politicians to promise not what they will do, but what […]
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I find it extremely amusing that the attitude of some people is that oil gushing in to the gulf is bad, but that detonating a fucking nuclear bomb to stop it is okay. They’re not okay with oil in the environment, but are good with radiation.
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Apparently California is in fuckin’ la-la land where cooked potatoes cause cancer.
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F.U.C.K. The federal government. Of all of the people on earth who deserve to be left alone by government, it’s the goddamn Amish. Sindya N. Bhanoo of The New York Times: But farmers like Mr. Stoltzfus are facing growing scrutiny for agricultural practices that the federal government sees as environmentally destructive. Their cows generate heaps […]
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How much would you like to bet that these same upstanding citizens covering themselves in oil and screaming frantically for a government takeover of BP (as if the federal government has more expertise in the complex science of deep water drilling than BP which specializes in the complex science of deep water drilling) are the […]
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An anonymous editorialist in The Wall Street Journal: In the better economic textbooks, regulatory capture is described as a “government failure,” as opposed to a market failure. It refers to the fact that individuals or companies with the highest interest or stake in a policy outcome will be able to focus their energies on politicians […]
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Dorothy Rabinowitz of The Wall Street Journal on the apparent disconnect between President Obama and the American people: The beliefs and attitudes that this president has internalized are to be found everywhere—in the salons of the left the world over—and, above all, in the academic establishment, stuffed with tenured radicals and their political progeny. The […]
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I guess we didn’t have to wait very long. Nicholas Casey of The Wall Street Journal: It was the second time in eight days that a Mexican was killed on the international border by U.S. authorities. On May 31, Anastasio Hernández, a Mexican migrant not related to Sergio, was shocked to death with a stun […]
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I wonder how long until we start to see Arizona take North Korean approved actions along our borders. Edward Wong in The New York Times: The Chinese Foreign Ministry said Tuesday that a North Korean border guard shot dead three Chinese nationals and wounded one last week in an incident in northeast China, prompting the […]
Arthur Laffer via The Wall Street Journal: And it’s also simple enough for most people to understand that if the government taxes people who work and pays people not to work, fewer people will work. Incentives matter.
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