A census worker I know had this to report about the waste and inefficiency in government:
Why is it that, whenever some politician yaks about wasteful government spending, they fuss over some wretched little lump of pork in the latest bill? Oh yeah, because the real problem is much more boring. But still:
When I […]
Ugh, what a rag. Even stories whose slant or point I may agree with I still can’t stand to read. Their points are so slimy and obnoxious that I just have to put it down. People are right that there is a liberal bias in mainstream papers, however it is a bias […]
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE59824J20091009?sp=true
Praise and skepticism greet Obama Nobel award
LONDON (Reuters) - A surprised world greeted the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to U.S. President Barack Obama with a mixture of praise and skepticism on Friday.
In its announcement, the Norwegian Nobel Committee hailed Obama’s “extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.”
Norwegian Prime Minister Jens […]
I found the full text of Obama’s speech, and while no one really cares what I think, I’ll give my thoughts on each of his points anyhow, just like I did with John Mackey’s proposal earlier.
- Those people with insurance who are happy with it won’t have to change. (good)
- “against the law […]
Sad:
An Arab couple whose one-year-old daughter was expelled from an Israeli day-care center on her first day are suing a Jewish mother for damages, accusing her of racist incitement against their child.
Maysa and Shuaa Zuabi, from the village of Sulam in northern Israel, launched the court action last week saying they had been “shocked and […]
John Mackey, co-founder and CEO of Whole Foods Market Inc., wrote an excellent op-ed about health care reform for the Wall Street Journal. Unlike the often over-the-top bile health care reform has attracted from conservatives, Mackey doesn’t just criticize universal health care (though it looks like the actual bill will fall far short of […]
According to Real Clear Politics, fully 35 percent of Democrats believe George W. Bush had advance knowledge of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Fully 28 percent of Republicans believe Barack Obama wasn’t born in the United States.Meet the fanatical third.
That is a shocking number of crazies. And people think youth are too ill-informed to vote?
Via John Stossel:
“As a broker in the health insurance business, I loved your article on the insanity of health insurance for all. Let me tell you what happened to me.
I needed an MRI for a shoulder injury. Well, knowing approximately what MRIs cost due to my wife having one six months earlier, I asked […]
Ok, I’m a month late on this, but this awesome commencement address at Butler University from Indiana governor Mitch Daniels deserves mention:
Along with most of your faculty and parents, I belong to the most discussed, debated and analyzed generation of all time, the so-called Baby Boomers. By the accepted definition, the youngest of us is […]
I’m more inclined to agree with the first post here, but StudentActivism.net makes a good point that this case was about an injunction, not about the merits of the speech itself. Still, I can’t see how anyone could side with the high school on any issue related to this case.
Sotomayor’s Bad 1st Amendment Decision […]