Tuesday, November 23, 2010
© Tom Tomorrow Letter from Congressman Rush Holt to the TSA Administrator.
Saturday, November 20, 2010
© Glenn McCoy “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” – Ben Franklin. UPDATE: Here’s a case where the TSA arrested someone for taking off too many clothes.
Saturday, November 20, 2010
[by Geechee Girl, reprinted from Smoke Rings, Coffee Stains, with permission. Thanks Leslie.] I’ve been pretty vocal about the new TSA “security” procedures lately and how against them I am. I’m sure the next time I fly will be be “interesting” because of it. Heck, I was vocal about it when it first started changing, […]
Friday, November 19, 2010
A new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll provides an interesting view into the minds of Americans. Several polls in the past have shown that a majority of Americans want to cut the deficit, even during hard economic times. However, when asked how they would cut the deficit, 70% were against making any cuts to programs […]
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Esquire Magazine put together a commission to balance the budget. You may not agree with all their decisions, but at least they did it. If you want to skip to the detailed results, they are here. They did it with a combination of sensible spending cuts with a small amount of tax increases.
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
© Jack Ohman The headlines are: “McConnell Does About-Face on Earmarks” (from the conservative NRO), “McConnell Caves on Earmarks” (moderate Washington Monthly), and “McConnell blinks on earmarks” (liberal Daily Kos). At least we can all agree on something!
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
© Tom Tomorrow The largest increases in “average life expectancy” are actually due to a lowering of childhood death. Old people really aren’t living that much longer than they did when Social Security was originally established. And those who do live longer are primarily in the top half of income earners. Interestingly, the tax that […]
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Recently, the NY Times published a “deficit-reduction calculator” that is fun to play with, but its options for reducing government spending and raising revenue are simply too limited. Ezra Klein gives some links to other similar calculators, but in case you want to skip to the ending, pretty much the only way to balance the […]
Monday, November 15, 2010
I’ve been seeing a lot of frustration and anger at the new security measures going into effect in airports (especially from pilots). One issue is the new millimeter ‘backscatter’ x-ray machines. Previously, only your carryon bags were x-rayed, now they are x-raying your entire body. And since these new machines penetrate clothing, but stop at […]
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Monday, November 15, 2010
Gin and Tacos has a fantastic rant about the overwhelming mandate delivered by the American people in the recent election. Yes, other pundits have attributed lots of other meanings to the election, but I think we can all agree that they have no idea what they are talking about. Ed humbly submits the following as […]
Monday, November 15, 2010
John Shimkus, Republican Congressman from Illinois, is currently on the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, which is responsible for energy policy, environmental initiatives, and public health. But now that control of the House is being turned over to Republicans, Shimkus is trying to become chairman of the powerful committee. What makes this ironic is […]
Sunday, November 14, 2010
© Lee Judge If we keep voting for people whose only policy proposal is to attack their opponents, then we have nobody to blame but ourselves.
Sunday, November 14, 2010
© Matt Bors And just this week, a Congressional leader told the head of a foreign government that he would side with the foreign country against the US president. Where are the screams of treason at this unprecedented undermining of US policy?
Saturday, November 13, 2010
Bloomberg implicitly asks the obvious question: Investors say that president Obama is bad for the bottom line; if so, then why are US corporations on track for the biggest earnings growth in 22 years, and the stock market is going like gangbusters again? 68% of US investors say that Obama’s policies are detrimental to the […]
Saturday, November 13, 2010
© Mr. Fish Apparently, a significant number of Bush’s “original” recollections found in his new memoir were plagiarized — often word for word — from other people’s books and articles. UPDATE: I also feel this way about seeing Bush on TV again.
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