Tuesday, November 24, 2009

When Times gets scared about deficits ...

OK, now I'm scared.

Even as Treasury officials are racing to lock in today’s low rates by exchanging short-term borrowings for long-term bonds, the government faces a payment shock similar to those that sent legions of overstretched homeowners into default on their mortgages.

Thursday, November 19, 2009

Palin

I'm just not interested. She can't take a punch. It's all whine, whine, whine.

And you can't be a major candidate -- OK, Republican candidate -- if you can't take a punch.

That's all. She's irrelevant.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Fight the nanny state!

Brit faces five years in prison -- for going into the police station and turning over a gun he found in his garden.

Signs of decline

Another warning shot:

But it is not just taxation that is chasing corporations out of America. Another top consideration is access to talent. The U.S. now spends more per capita on public education than any other OECD country, but its students test in the bottom decile.

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

More health care sellouts

Just remember, you can't trust business either.

MS Health, a company that supplies the pharmaceutical companies with sales data, predicts that new health reform legislation -- combined with a projected upswing in the economy -- will result in a net gain of more than $137 billion in total market sales over the next four years.


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More alarm

Provocative writer's take on Pelosicare:

Holy Hygeia, why can't my fellow Democrats see that the creation of another huge, inefficient federal bureaucracy would slow and disrupt the delivery of basic healthcare and subject us all to a labyrinthine mass of incompetent, unaccountable petty dictators?