Senator Chris Dodd (D-Conn) in his post-“doing something”about our financial institutions orgasm: It’s a great moment. I’m proud to have been here. No one will know until this is actually in place how it works. But we believe we’ve done something that has been needed for a long time. It took a crisis to bring […]

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Awesome!  Buying local food is not always financially viable, so let’s fund it with a federal program.  Lyndsey Layton in The Washington Post concerning the federal government’s new program to fund mobile slaughterhouses to promote the Obama agenda of buying locally grown food: When Kathryn Thomas wanted to turn her sheep into lamb chops, the […]

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Eternal douchebags Rush Limbaugh, Newt Gingrich, and Sarah Palin shouldn’t call Obama’s agenda socialist in nature because they have family problems. I’m no fan of any of those three.  In fact, I can’t stand to listen to any of them and I’m not sure we’d miss too much were the three to be abducted by […]

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Stephen Power of The Wall Street Journal concerning oil company testimony on capitol hill this morning: Republicans who attended the hearing accused Democrats and the Obama administration of inappropriately using the disaster to pass legislation aimed at limiting emissions of heat-trapping gases linked to climate change. Never let a good crisis go to waste.

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Wow.  John Tierney of The New York Times on proposed legislation to close the gender gap in the sciences: The gap in science seems due mainly to another difference between the sexes: men are more interested in working with things, while women are more interested in working with people. There’s ample evidence — most recently […]

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Roger Alford of the AP via The Lexington Herald-Leader: Republican U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul reached out to gun advocates on Saturday, trying to shore up support from a major voting bloc in Kentucky. . . . Conway, the state’s attorney general, also is vying for the NRA endorsement, said campaign spokeswoman Allison Haley. “Jack […]

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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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It has been maintained by the terminally libertarded that our current economic crisis in America is because of deregulated “Free Market Failures” which has spurned on legions of Demotards screaming for government regulation of the financial sector.  But even as far back as 1999 our current economic woes which started with the housing bubble were […]

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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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Naftali Bendavid, Valerie Bauerlein And Stephanie Simon of The Wall Street Journal: Ms. Lincoln avoided becoming the third senator this year to be defeated by her own party. Labor unions and liberal groups had sought to make an example of Ms. Lincoln for her deviation from liberal positions, putting millions of dollars behind Lt. Gov. […]

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