Category: Stimulus

New and improved US deficit visualization

New and improved US deficit visualization

| October 1, 2009 | 1 Reply

This wonderful chart, put up by Veronique de Rugy over at The American, is even better than the chart that I’ve used off and on for months to show the staggering deficit projections resulting from the Obama Administration unsustainable economic policies. As per de Rugy’s explanations, here’s what the color bars mean: the orange bars […]

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9/12 Rally liveblogging — kickoff meeting

9/12 Rally liveblogging — kickoff meeting

| September 10, 2009 | Reply

Sandra and I are sitting here in the DC Armory, a venerable (not aging well) structure out by RFK Stadium. This is where this morning’s kickoff meeting for the 9/12 Taxpayer March on the Capitol is taking place. This meeting is only for the truly committed. First, it’s taking place Thursday morning, even though the […]

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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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The Obama cult of personality [updated x3]

The Obama cult of personality [updated x3]

| September 2, 2009 | 1 Reply

OK, this Obama cult of personality is getting a wee bit out of hand. I don’t begrudge his supporters waxing rhapsodic about his many virtues (as they see them), but this whole nationwide address to students — and the accompanying letter from EdSec Arne Duncan to teachers and administrators — is getting a bit too […]

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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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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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What Did Sergey Aleynikov Really Do At Goldman?

What Did Sergey Aleynikov Really Do At Goldman?

| July 14, 2009 | Reply

In interesting and complex story is unfolding, centered on Goldman Sachs, the large and highly profitable company that we all worked so hard to fund with bail out dollars. The story started as a small, throw-away technical story about a former Goldman employee named Sergey Aleynikov, who left the firm and was accused of taking […]

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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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Wednesday earning

Wednesday earning

| April 22, 2009 | Reply

MORNING LINKS — yeah, I’m up early ITEM: Jim Lindgren over at the Volokh Conspiracy does the simple investigation that no news organization (except possibly Fox) seems willing or able to do. His finding: states with the highest unemployment rates have high tax and unionization rates, while states with the lowest unemployment rates have low […]

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Tuesday burning

Tuesday burning

| April 21, 2009 | Reply

[For those coming in from Ace of Spaces, here’s the link to the “Atlas Shrugged” review] MORNING LINKS Item: I swapped e-mails this week with “S. Weasel” who runs one of my favorite blogs. She and her significant other (now husband) recently moved to England; she loves it there, but in her e-mail to me, […]

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