When Robert Samuelson starts asking that question, it’s time to worry: The idea that the government of a major advanced country would default on its debt — that is, tell lenders that it won’t repay them all they’re owed — was, until recently, a preposterous proposition. Argentina and Russia have stiffed their creditors, but surely […]
Via Wesley J. Smith at Critical Condition (National Review Online) comes this ‘death panel’ tale from the health care paradise to the north of us: Bonnie Cameron and Cindy Waters-Goodman do not know each other, but they have much in common. Both are feisty, small-town Ontarians who were young, busy mothers when hit with diagnoses […]
Much like Cash for Clunkers, but on a vaster scale, the Obama stimulus package is being revealed as a fraudulent failure. The Denver Post shows that the numbers here in Colorado just don’t add up: The federal government reported Friday that Colorado created or saved 8,094 jobs through grants, loans and contracts funded by the […]
Yeah, the process scares me as well. Hat tip to Mark Tapscott at the Washington Examiner. ..bruce w..
I’ve got a nephew (CPL Darren Green, USMC) who’s just coming back from Afghanistan (Helmand Province, no less). I’m very thankful he wasn’t one of the ones that Pres. Obama met at midnight at Dover AFB, and that my sister, brother-in-law, and niece didn’t have to travel there to meet him as well. While (like […]
I have largely put presidential politics on “mute” since March or so, it is clear that given the dynamics of the current government, the Democrats have a clear field and may do as they wish for now. As such there has been little going on that I would single out for compliment. But today is […]
It started snowing here about 9 pm on Tuesday evening and hasn’t stopped since. The wind has been blowing constantly, pretty much between 10 and 20 mph (I can’t tell for sure — my outside anemometer appears to have frozen up). The local news station is reporting 14″ of snow so far here in Parker […]
Hat tip to American Digest for the link. I’m in the early part of a two-day winter storm, still struggling a bit with the flu and reading documents. I’ll be back by the weekend. ..bruce w..
For those of you who only know of this 1978 TV show from vague rumors, here’s some more background information. I tried watching the special all the way through about a year ago and couldn’t do it. I have wondered if the original Japanese novelist for “The Ring” (you watch a specific video tape and […]
