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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President Obama in a speech concerning apparent job growth in May: This report is a sign that our economy is getting stronger. Really? That’s awesome! Tell me more. Luca Di Leo of The Wall Street Journal: The U.S. economy added jobs in May at the fastest pace in a decade, but the gains were inflated […]
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Apparently, the advisory board whose single task is to find creative ways to cut the federal deficit wants needs more money.
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When is it that the President Obama will start to take some blame for the ills that happen during his presidency and stop blaming the Bush Administration? He has been in office for over 500 days, and yet nothing is ever his fault. Part of Hope and Change, Mr. Obama, is to NOT point the […]
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Joan Biskupic via USA Today: By a 5-4 vote, the justices said that once rights have been read and questioning begun, a suspect must clearly declare that he wants to remain silent and cannot simply be silent. If I have to speak up in order to be silent, what’s the fucking point of having a […]
Ben Webster via Times Online: The society appears to have conceded that it needs to correct previous statements. It said: “Any public perception that science is somehow fully settled is wholly incorrect — there is always room for new observations, theories, measurements.” This contradicts a comment by the society’s previous president, Lord May, who was […]
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Kareem Fahim via The New York Times: The government has not said whether any of the people killed by security forces were armed. And although almost a thousand people were arrested and detained for days, all but 10 of them were eventually released without charge. A side note to the collateral damage in Jamaica as […]
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Though I doubt that the residents of hell are seeing ice crystals form, it’s fair odds that they felt a chilly breeze when the The New York Times lamented that a Federal Court recently upheld unprecedented amounts of executive power. An anonymous editorialist: One of the most vital jobs of the federal courts is to […]
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Were I a betting man, I’d wager that teachers unions are responsible.
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