Cartoons for the day
Cartoon by Nate Beeler at the Washington Examiner. And now from S. Weasel over at, well, S. Weasel: On the road for the next few days; postings may be light. ..bruce w..
Category: Main
Dance, puppet, dance!
From Ace of Spades comes this clip (above) of MS-NBC making a real-time “correction” based on an e-mail from the White House. Upon watching it, my immediate thought was of the scene in “Broadcast News” where Albert Brooks (the brainy but uncharismatic journalist) is feeding background information for a breaking crisis to William Hurt (the […]
This just in . . .
Headline: Obama’s War on Fox News Becomes a Quagmire THE WHITE HOUSE – Despite the President’s promise of a swift and decisive victory, Obama’s War on Fox News has developed all signs of an unwinnable quagmire, making the White House even more isolated in its unilateral attempts to crush the growing media insurgency. As the […]
Yep, that makes more sense
xkcd hits it again. Click on the comic to see the original (larger) version. ..bruce w..
Daily financial visualization
Wondering just where that $1.4 trillion deficit comes from? Veronique de Rugy over at the Corner at National Review Online presents the breakdown: To be sure, the recession caused lower than expected tax revenue — $419 billion lower. But the bulk of the deficit is made of spending. A lot spending since it amounts to […]
How bad is the US job market?
Big Government offers this chart of unemployment trends in post-WW II recessions. Nice to see that the massive deficit spending on ‘stimulus’ has paid off so well. ..bruce w..
DOJ overreach
From this morning’s Washington Times: KINSTON, N.C. | Voters in this small city decided overwhelmingly last year to do away with the party affiliation of candidates in local elections, but the Obama administration recently overruled the electorate and decided that equal rights for black voters cannot be achieved without the Democratic Party. The Justice Department’s […]
![The Loma Prieta quake — 20 years (and a few days) later [updated]](http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/2005/15/images/fig27.jpg "The Loma Prieta quake — 20 years (and a few days) later [updated]")
The Loma Prieta quake — 20 years (and a few days) later [updated]
Yeah, I should have written and posted this yesterday, but I didn’t realize it was the 20th anniversary until today (thanks to this post). Sandra and I, with seven of our nine kids, had moved to Soquel, California in early 1988. Actually, we were five miles outside of Soquel; we bought a home in the […]
Cracks in the facade
Eugene Robinson, at the Washington Post, expresses more disappointment about President Obama: President Obama’s brief display of drive-by compassion Thursday in New Orleans was, for me, by far the worst outing of his presidency thus far — and the biggest disappointment. . . . “I wish I could just write a check,” Obama said. If […]
