Obama’s 2013 budget was released yesterday. In today’s papers, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times have shared their reactions. They could not be more different. In their piece titled A Responsible Budget, the NYT totally buys into the Democratic narrative of how the world works and what the Federal government’s priorities should be. [...]
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NYT and WSJ react to Obama’s budget: Through the looking glass
Posted in economics, politics on February 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
George Lakoff – How conservatives and liberals think. or not.
Posted in politics on November 14, 2011 | 4 Comments »
A commenter on this blog (Dan) has repeatedly suggested I read Moral Politics by George Lakoff. He’s suggested it will explain all when it comes to why conservatives are the way they are and vice versa for liberals. Naturally, I never did it, but I’ve been more and more wondering about this question and seeking [...]
‘Conservatives are selfish people’ – Not
Posted in politics on November 14, 2011 | 2 Comments »
I make a point to read the New York Times every day, especially the OpEd pieces. I very often disagree with the OpEd pieces, but what are often even more remarkable are the comments. One from a piece today was especially remarkable for its concise and utterly unsupportable point. The piece is titled The Gulf [...]
Keystone XL – Is there a better route for transporting the oil?
Posted in economics, politics on November 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Read this this morning in the Wall Street Journal: Credit Suisse analyst Ed Westlake puts it this way: “From a transportation perspective, which is more environmentally risky: Shipping crude across the Rocky Mountains to the British Colombia coast, loading the crude onto tankers which sail down the California coast, through the Panama Canal and into [...]
Liberals are totally losing it: no fall holidays
Posted in politics on October 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I used to sort of understand and even agree with a lot of liberal thinking, but good God what the f— is going on in the liberal mind these days? Now we are cancelling fall holidays over supposed atrocities of hundreds of years ago and/or vague linkages to witchcraft and/or whatever else. It is absurd [...]
8.8 Billion Hours Spent Completing Regulatory Paperwork
Posted in economics, politics on September 17, 2011 | 1 Comment »
The Wall Street Journal today reports about an OMB study which indicates that Americans spent 8.8 billion hours filling out federal forms in 2010. This is down from 2009, but apparently due to a more favorable formula for calculating the figures. Full article here: White House Tallies Hours Spent Filling Out Forms (paywall) The OMB study indicates [...]
It’s all Bush’s fault!
Posted in economics, politics on September 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Even 3 years into Obama’s presidency, commentators and commenters are constantly blaming it all on Bush. As we sit here in mid-2011, they make it sound like it has been obvious since Day 1 that Bush left the economy in terrible, terrible shape. Seems to me that this is revisionist and largely a response to the [...]
Obama: Bush was irresponsible, unpatriotic running up the debt
Posted in economics, politics on August 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Clip of Obama during a campaign stop on July 3, 2008 speaking about how “irresponsible and unpatriotic” Bush was in running up the deficit.
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