Nanny State
Thursday, April 10, 2008
By
Rob
on April 10, 2008 at 02:18 pm
According to this poll from Rasmussen: Twenty-nine percent (29%) of American adults favor a national health insurance program overseen by the Federal Government. A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found…...
Tuesday, April 08, 2008
By
Rob
on April 8, 2008 at 06:05 pm
Personally, I’m not so much upset about the “monkey” comment (seems like an innocent enough term to use for little kids climbing in trees whatever their racial background) as I…...
By
Rob
on April 8, 2008 at 01:06 pm
An interesting excerpt from an NTU press release announcing their latest congressional rankings: (Alexandria, Va.)—The multi-year decline of lawmakers’ pro-taxpayers scores under Republican control of the House of Representatives and…...
Monday, April 07, 2008
By
Rob
on April 7, 2008 at 03:47 pm
Your daily dose of government waste-related news courtesy of The Oink Report: Veterans Affairs employees last year racked up hundreds of thousands of dollars in government credit-card bills at casino…...
Sunday, April 06, 2008
By
Rob
on April 6, 2008 at 09:14 am
Again. Which, again, begs the question: Who is ultimately responsible for raising our children? Parents, or the state? The line is getting blurrier all the time. A court in California…...
By
Rob
on April 6, 2008 at 08:22 am
The day before yesterday I wrote a post about “dropout factory” schools in urban areas, and noted in the post that funding isn’t exactly the problem in a lot of…...
Saturday, April 05, 2008
By
Rob
on April 5, 2008 at 07:46 am
Last night Hillary Clinton appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and told this story about a little boy she met in Indianapolis (story begins at about 1:11). Here’s…...
Friday, April 04, 2008
By
Rob
on April 4, 2008 at 04:10 pm
She was told that if she wanted to, she could have paid a private dentist to have the work done. Of course, that just made the poor woman wonder why…...
Thursday, April 03, 2008
By
Rob
on April 3, 2008 at 12:28 pm
Here’s a run-down of today’s wasteful government spending news, courtesy of a little side-project of mine called The Oink Report: For 2008, Congress has funded 11,610 pork projects-- the second…...
By
Rob
on April 3, 2008 at 10:18 am
Democrats like to talk a lot about former Republican President Herbert Hoover, the man whose economic policies are often blamed for sending this country into the Great Depression. During the…...
Wednesday, April 02, 2008
By
Rob
on April 2, 2008 at 01:35 pm
That’s right. Ibuprofen. As in over-the-counter headache medicine like Advil and Tylenol, though in this case the ibuprofen just happened to be prescription strength. Meaning each pill is equivalent to…...
By
Rob
on April 2, 2008 at 12:18 pm
That’s what is being suggested in a new book by Larry Bartels entitled Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age. He calculates income growth among the rich…...
By
Rob
on April 2, 2008 at 09:42 am
So much for their “pole” tax. The case, Texas Entertainment Association Inc. v. Combs, decided March 28 by Travis County District Judge Scott Jenkins, violated the First Amendment and did…...
Tuesday, April 01, 2008
By
Rob
on April 1, 2008 at 01:48 pm
Can anyone say “cognitive dissonance?” On one hand, we have Barack Obama drawing the line between rich and middle class at families who make $75,000 or more — a surprise…...
Monday, March 31, 2008
By
Rob
on March 31, 2008 at 10:39 pm
The Associated Press sums up the problems: The audits, which come with state struggling to pay for health care for the poor and uninsured, found: , Some beneficiaries failed to…...
By
Rob
on March 31, 2008 at 03:03 pm
Because another big, fat tax on the oil industry will surely make fuel prices go down. Here’s reality: When oil companies are taxed it isn’t really the oil companies that…...
By
Rob
on March 31, 2008 at 06:21 am
For me its not so much that Democrats think they can lower gas prices by taxing the oil industry to death, but that they think we’ll believe them when…...
Sunday, March 30, 2008
By
Rob
on March 30, 2008 at 08:04 pm
Update: I misread the original article as Planned Parenthood getting billions of dollars instead of millions. A stupid mistake after a long weekend, so clearly the group isn’t outpacing the…...
By
Rob
on March 30, 2008 at 07:44 pm
More evidence to suggest that Obama isn’t who he says he is today courtesy of a 1995 interview with the Chicago Observer. He says that individual dreams and achievements aren’t…...
Friday, March 28, 2008
By
Rob
on March 28, 2008 at 04:35 pm
But isn’t ours a free market economy? Meaning that there is no one single commander but rather millions upon millions of “commanders” making free choices in a free environment? Seems…...
By
Rob
on March 28, 2008 at 08:40 am
Like me, most of you probably got a recent notice in the mail reading something like: “We are pleased to inform you that the United States Congress passed and President…...
Thursday, March 27, 2008
By
Rob
on March 27, 2008 at 01:26 pm
Personally, I don’t understand what is so bad about an “on your own” society. GREENSBORO, N.C. — Presidential candidate Barack Obama, largely ignoring his Democratic rival for now, ridiculed likely…...
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
By
Rob
on March 26, 2008 at 07:55 pm
Paul Krugman notes that Social Security Trustees are projecting a more positive outlook on the program’s actuarial balance. The latest report of the Social Security Trustees is out. I think…...
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
By
Rob
on March 25, 2008 at 08:11 am
Has Texas Governor Rick Perry been watching too many of those late-night infomercials? Texas has invested $250,000 for a possible miracle drug to fight obesity. . . . To fight…...
Sunday, March 23, 2008
By
Rob
on March 23, 2008 at 01:13 pm
Having apparently solved all other pressing matters of law-breaking and criminal enterprise, Minnesota has cracked down on all those nasty bar owners and patrons who (*gasp*) were choosing to gather…...
Friday, March 21, 2008
By
Rob
on March 21, 2008 at 11:59 am
James Pethokoukis thinks so, and I’m inclined to agree. The phrase “through a mirror darkly” keeps popping to mind as I think about where the housing/credit crisis and the government’s…...
Thursday, March 20, 2008
By
Rob
on March 20, 2008 at 08:08 pm
It’s a variation on the 40-year-old male law enforcement officer posing in a chatroom as a 15-year-old girl. The FBI has recently adopted a novel investigative technique: posting hyperlinks that…...
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
By
Rob
on March 19, 2008 at 07:59 am
Exxon’s 2007 tax bill was more than the entire bottom 50% of taxpayers in America. ...
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
By
Rob
on March 18, 2008 at 10:35 am
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Monday, March 17, 2008
By
Rob
on March 17, 2008 at 08:27 am
This seems patently absurd to me: JAMESTOWN (AP) — With food prices rising along with skyrocketing commodity prices, the North Dakota Farmers Union wants the public to know just how…...
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likwidshoe:
Rob - Posts/comments aren’t deleted here as long as they’re not a) spam or b)...
Chief RZ:
During the present CINCs tour of duty, he led our brave troops to a victory...
Bat One:
[quote]...invade Sudan?[/quote] Come on! Pay attention. Not only do you have the wrong country. Hell,...
Pilgrim:
Whistler, The second incident you're talking about happened in Shreveport. Same type of thing. Dark...
pparets:
Likwidshoe: RBB morphs history again. The SCOTUS only ruled that the Florida Supreme Court plan...
Ken McCracken:
Hmmm yes. How many recounts did Al Gore win? Answer: none....
The Whistler:
I think the cops should have shot as soon as she took a firing position....
realitybasedbob:
Wasn’t the Cole attacked less than a month before the election? Something something something wag...
ellinas:
The dems would make us defenseless both domestically and nationally given a choice. docdave on...
