March 03, 2009
[Click the image to enlarge it.] That graph shows some perspective. And here’s some reality: As we all know, yesterday the stock market took anther slide. I usually hate Associated Press articles because they rarely explain the news well, but yesterday’s short AP piece was, like that g...
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March 01, 2009
Glenn Reynolds, the Instadope, defends the paltry turn out at their anti-economic sense anti-stimulus protests by saying… But it’s much bigger news when 200 people with jobs who’ve never protested turn out, than when 20,000 of the usual suspects organized by ACORN or ANSWER march with prep...
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February 28, 2009
The LA Times glowingly extolling about the anti-stimulus “tea parties” and their connection to social media pisses me off more than you can imagine. Let’s see what’s wrong with the first sentence and a haf of this crappy article: In the latest example of how user-produced m...
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February 26, 2009
First impressions mean a lot. In that vein, here’s the first paragraph from the front page story in today’s New York Times about Obama’s budget proposal, to be revealed later today: President Obama will propose further tax increases on the affluent to help pay for his promise to ...
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February 23, 2009
But what the hell is the point of the Obama Administration placing a “stress test” on banks? Seriously now… Top advisers to President Obama, including the Treasury secretary, Timothy F. Geithner, have insisted repeatedly that they want to keep the major banks in “private handsâ...
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Stop waving your hand around and shouting “Me me me!” Michelle, I’ll come back to you another day. I started watching Glenn Beck’s “war games” segment on Fox News because, apparently, I like torturing myself but there wasn’t a light socket around to stick my...
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February 20, 2009
Michelle goes econ professor-cum-Milton Friedman fellater on us today with this tweet: Betrayal of fiscal conservatism has consequences: Please tell us Professor Malkin, what are those consequences?! Does the $10 trillion debt the Bush administration left us with lead to a global recession? Credit c...
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February 18, 2009
In part 1, Kyle wrote about why the Obama Monkey sock puppet that came out last year was juuuuust a bit racist. Thanks to Rupert Murdoch’s pet cartoonist at the New York Post, I have to write part 2. Here’s the Republicans’ idea of good, clean criticism of Obama: Yup, the solid...
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February 17, 2009
Let’s nationalize GM, first. General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC told the federal government they need at least $21.6 billion more combined in bailout loans to put them on the road to recovery, and outlined possible scenarios if either auto maker should have to file for bankruptcy protection...
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February 15, 2009
In the recording of CommentsCast today, I admitted that I have a photo of myself with Michelle Malkin. Michael said that if I put this photo on CFLF today, he’ll have CommentsCast mixed down and ready for download later today. So fulfilling my end of the bargain… I suppose you’...
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