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From Cato:

State Treasurer Timothy P. Cahill, an independent candidate for governor, today offered a wide-ranging and scathing criticism of the state’s universal health care law, saying it is bankrupting Massachusetts and will do the same nationally, if a similar plan is passed in Congress. “If President Obama and the Democrats [...]

Categories: Politics

An infographic:

North Korea: The Craziest Country In the World

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

SO MUCH but so little energy…

On Unions and how to deal with them:

Corner – State of the Nation, by John Derbyshire

This headline brightened up my breakfast: Unionized Rhode Island Teachers Refuse To Work 25 Minutes More Per Day, So Town Fires All Of Them [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

Mark Steyn – THE SEDUCTIONS OF DECLINE

I don’t even know where to begin quoting this (RC2, who is probably better at hiding her straight razors than I, quoted it fairly extensively – and thoughtfully! – here, and as testament to the resilience of her state of mind, she manages to wade through a similarly-themed VDH [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

Here’s a book I, or one of you who then report back to us on your findings, need to read: The Pinch: How the Baby Boomers Took Their Children’s Future – And Why They Should Give it Back

From here:

The Guardian – The Tory frontbencher deserves to be cherished as a rare politician who injects rigour [...]

Categories: History

From Tony Blair:

This isn’t about a lie or a conspiracy or a deceit or a deception,” Mr. Blair said. “It’s a decision. And the decision I had to take was, given Saddam’s history, given his use of chemical weapons, given the over one million people whose deaths he had caused, given 10 years [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

Another quick post (I swear I meant to do more today but then I got locked out of my bathroom by a bathtub shaped like a whale):

NRO – Kevin Williamson: Against Zimbabwefication

Zimbabwe has for many years been a rich source of black humor for people who are interested in inflation, grotesque misgovernment, and [...]

Categories: Business & Media

Well, hasn’t it been an interesting week.

The Daily Beast – Mort Zuckerman: He’s Done Everything Wrong

Obama punted on the economy and reversed the fortunes of the Democrats in 365 days. He’s misjudged the character of the country in his whole approach. There’s the saying, “It’s the economy, stupid.” He didn’t [...]

Categories: Politics

This doesn’t state anything particularly groundbreaking but

1) Isn’t it interesting how many articles are coming out about how utterly wrecked California is?

2) Isn’t it really interesting how many articles are coming out about how utterly awful San Francisco has become? California is a “failed state” but San Francisco will always have the tourist dollars [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

I enjoyed reading this. Bits of it reminded me of some of Vanderleun’s stories, but of course in a later, less-charmed decade.

But I don’t have time to quote any of that so I’m going to skip to the funny bit.

The Awl – The End of the 00s: The Stupid Kids of 1999, By Will [...]

Categories: Business & Media

I think Lord Black is in an even worse mood than I am at the end of this decade. But then he’s rotting in prison on trumped up charges of making his company too much money.

National Post – Conrad Black: What a dismal decade

I can’t be the only person who wondered if [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

That dull roar you hear is the sound of my panic welling up and crashing over me…

NRO – Cross the River, Burn the Bridge<br/> Obamacare is the fast-track to a permanent left-of-center political culture. By Mark Steyn

We were told we had to do it because of the however many millions of uninsured, yet this [...]

Categories: Politics

The Times – Unburied bodies tell the tale of Detroit — a city in despair

Unburied bodies piling up in the city mortuary — it reached 70 earlier this year — is the latest and perhaps most appalling indignity to be heaped on the people of Detroit. The motor city that once boasted the [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

President Obama does sex to President Hu of China (interestingly, the one’s played by a German-Japanese Venezuelan and the other by, err, a white frat boy) and China would like their money back:

Categories: Politics

VDH, ominously:

We’ve only just begun Remember, all these are just the preliminaries. The Bush tax cuts have not yet expired, but will soon. Inheritance taxes will soon skyrocket. The promised end to the FICA caps on the “wealthy” is coming — along with surcharges on energy and health care. For [...]

Categories: Politics