Despite all of the hullabaloo over #tcot (Top Conservatives on Twitter), there seems to a be a bit of a scrap brewing between TCOT co-founders Rob Neppell and Michael Patrick Leahy. To date, the argument sounds more like a quarrel between gay lovers than one between some of the God-fearing, pro-torture fag-bashing Republicans who frequently […]
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When Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians, Greens, progressives, conservatives, liberals, libertarians, and socialists can all agree on something political in nature, it’s a monumental occasion. There seems to be a near consensus: Arlen Specter is a spineless crapweasel who now prefers to bottom-feed from a blue pond, as opposed to the red one he’s been polluting for […]
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So Barack Obama has a few snide remarks for the tea partiers:
Asked about fiscal discipline and entitlements reform, Obama seemed to be repressing a smile as he jabbed critics of his spending plans.
“Those of you who are watching certain news channels on which I’m not very popular, and you see folks waving tea bags around, […]
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I put this up as a Samizdata quote of the day, before realising that there already was one. Sorry. But, it's good and deserves plentiful copying and pasting, so here is that posting rehashed, with the quote in question as its starting point: So, yet again, the courts are faced with a sample of the deeply confusing provisions of the Criminal Justice Act 2003, and the satellite Statutory Instruments to which it is giving stuttering…
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A great article on why the opposition Tories need to have the cojones to take on the flat-earth economics of confiscatory tax….
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In Washington, DC aka the District of Corruption, the friendly local meter maids are now issuing parking tickets, on your driveway.
Beverly Anderson is mad as hell. She just started to get tickets for parking in her own driveway.
That’s right. The District of Columbia is ticketing people who park their cars in their own driveways.
“This is […]
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One of these things doesn’t belong:
Graph c/o Ezra Klein
I’d say government would be considered “countercyclical”, but unfortunately it doesn’t shrink when the economy is growing.
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Yeah I know, the “First 100 Days” of President Barack Obama is somewhat arbitrary. Still, a great deal has happened in these first 100 days so why not take another look at the Obameter shall we?
So far, President Obama has kept 27 campaign promises, compromised on 7, broken 6, stalled on 3, has 63 “in […]
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The One comes out with some jaw-dropping remarks at times….
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"As bad as things are at the moment, it seems a mite premature to write off policies in the 1980s as an abject failure. We have not lost 30 years of wealth, and living standards have increased for billions of people since the 1980s. Income inequality has increased, and that can be undesirable, but the welfare of many low-income people has dramatically improved." The Economist. The 1980s were only an "abject failure" in the eyes…
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