Category: Sea of deficits

Countdown to 9/12 — Monday links

Countdown to 9/12 — Monday links

| September 7, 2009 | 1 Reply

MID-MORNING LINKS [updated as I run across them] ITEM: It turns out there’s at least one thing that the Communist Chinese government and I agree upon: China alarmed by US money printing The US Federal Reserve’s policy of printing money to buy Treasury debt threatens to set off a serious decline of the dollar and […]

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A reduction of an increase is not a “spending cut”

A reduction of an increase is not a “spending cut”

| August 31, 2009 | Reply

Conservatives have long complained that liberals screaming about “massive cuts” in government programs are actually talking about reducing the hard-wired growth of spending — that is (for example), a plan to limit the year-over-year growth of a welfare program to, say, 8% instead of 10% is a “cut”. With that context, I guess you can […]

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The Government Can!

The Government Can!

| August 29, 2009 | Reply

Your Saturday morning entertainment, with a hat tip to The American Spectator. ..bruce w..

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Marching on Washington: 9/12/09

Marching on Washington: 9/12/09

| August 19, 2009 | Reply

[Hat tip to Ace of Spades for the photo; no, that’s not me, but I wish it were.] Sandra and I are flying from Denver to Washington DC next month to march on the Capitol on 9/12. As someone who was a registered Democrat for 37 years until last fall, I am appalled at the […]

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Carnival of the Posters

Carnival of the Posters

| August 5, 2009 | Reply

The Obama/Joker image (above) was just the start. Combined with the “fishy e-mail” snitching request on the White House blog — a request of dubious legality and unquestionable bad taste — there are more images and videos coming out of the woodwork. The Obama/Joker poster above may have been inspired by this one from last […]

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Well, they asked for it

Well, they asked for it

| August 4, 2009 | 1 Reply

Gaius over at Blue Crab Boulevard responds to the White House’s request to be sent anything “fishy” regarding health care reform: We heartily endorse the sending of links of fish, especially crappie, to the White House! You heard it here first. Send them the link to crappie – since that is what they are pushing. Crappy health […]

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A solution to the financial crisis

A solution to the financial crisis

| June 20, 2009 | Reply

Hope at last! US To Trade Gold Reserves For Cash Through Cash4Gold.com Makes as much sense as any of the financial plans coming out of Congress and the Administration these days. ..bruce w..

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Friday’s a May day

Friday’s a May day

| May 1, 2009 | Reply

ADMIN: Yeah, I know today’s post title doesn’t rhyme with the others — but here’s a quick test of your own nit-pickiness: did the difference between Monday’s title and the rest of the week bother you? MORNING LINKS (and these are likely the only link you’ll get today). LINK: Speaking of workers, I’m going to […]

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Monday’s a new day

Monday’s a new day

| April 26, 2009 | Reply

MORNING LINKS — apparently, Monday’s also a snowy day ITEM: I went to bed with rain falling outside and woke up to about an inch of snow on the ground, with more falling. And apparently we could get more on Friday Morning (May 1st). ITEM: For about two years before things collapsed, my co-blogger, Bruce […]

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Thursday spurning

Thursday spurning

| April 23, 2009 | Reply

OVERNIGHT LINKS ITEM: I figured that Janet Napolitano had some kind of security credentials beyond being a Democrat from a border state who was current on all her taxes. It doesn’t appear so (the credentials, that is; not the taxes; hat tip to the Drudge Report): In an interview broadcast Monday on the CBC, Ms. […]

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