What Doesn’t Represent a Majority of the Republican Caucus
NRO – AWOL in the Bunning Battle The GOP shows why Obamacare is a good bet for the Left. By Andrew McCarthy
If Obamacare passes, Obamacare is forever. Just ask Jim Bunning. The Kentucky Republican finally caved in Tuesday after relentless pressure from other senators — including Republicans — to drop what [...]
Categories: Politics
Sales Tax (and Fire) Kills Small Business, Forces People Into Corporate Behemoth
A little local action:
Queen Anne News – Hilltop Yarn is hanging up its knitting needles, closing its doors for good March 29
Hill said the decision was not taken lightly. It came after two years of serious consideration–after an electrical fire in their previous location in late 2008 almost burned the shop down and [...]
Categories: Business & Media
American Decline, Where Neither the Second Amendment Nor the Caliphate Can Save Us
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
Sunday Quotations
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
Lost Sessions: The Taxman
Shamelessly repinched. Curtsy: Oh, both of them, really.
Categories: Politics
Killing California Dead
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
“Monuments of the Good Taste of the Last Generation”
That’ll be “Phrases Spoken By My Generation After Hell’s Frozen Over,” Alec. Next category for the Daily Double: “Why do the homeless always have to ruin our cities?”
Bookworm Room – San Francisco as it once was
Union Square is no longer a grass covered and palm treed oasis in the middle of the City. [...]
Categories: History
My Mini Copenhagen
First, curtsies to RC2:
New Geography (reprinted from Forbes) – THE GREEN MOVEMENT’S PEOPLE PROBLEM, by Joel Kotkin
The movement needs to break with the deep-seated misanthropy that dominates green politics and has brought it to this woeful state. Its leaders have defined our species as everything from a “cancer” to the “AIDs of the [...]
Categories: Uncategorized
I Suppose There’s An Implied Exception For Cricket
You know how people get about cricket…
The Corner – Mark Steyn: Come Fry with Me
In order to save the planet from global roasting, it seems entirely reasonable to ask Mr. and Mrs. Joe Peasant to subordinate their freedom of movement to an annual “carbon allowance” preventing them flying hither and yon and devastating [...]
Categories: Uncategorized
VDH Making Me Depressed As Well
As usual.
PJM – The Long March From California to Copenhagen
[W]e have the highest gasoline taxes, highest income taxes, highest sales taxes and collect enormous amounts of revenue to pay the highest-compensated and most numerous state employees in the nation to allot these revenues for others. We have the largest number of illegal aliens, [...]
Categories: Politics
You Lost 'Em at "Sensible"
I feel like this is Solomonic, but I’m not sure. In the National Post:
This will never happen, but the New York Times carries a column today in which University of Guelph professor Ross McKitrick proposes a simple solution to the carbon tax conundrum: Tie taxes to temperatures. He suggests imposing [...]
Categories: Science and Nature
Coat Hangers: Free or Dead, the Drinking Game
A small procedural victory to get vote purely on abortion funding…
The Hill – Up-or-down vote on an amendment to block abortion funding approved
Stupak, flanked by a bipartisan coterie of abortion opponents, argued for consideration of their amendment that explicitiy prohibits federal funding of abortions under the Democrats’ healthcare bill before the Speaker’s select [...]
Categories: Politics
Foot, Meet Bullet
Well, well, well. It turns out that little vote we Washingtonians (well, not we precisely because I never registered to vote and Peter was somehow listed as “inactive” (uh huh suuuuure)) just had on Prop 71 with the obnoxious “Protect all Washington families” tagline (and “keep the domestic partnership line” tagline on most of the [...]
Categories: People and Current Events
Religious Freedom and Freedom of Speech
Freedom of religion over at Wheat & Weeds, and curtsy to her too for Freedom of speech:
The internet chapter of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a secret copyright treaty whose text Obama’s administration refused to disclose due to “national security” concerns, has leaked. It’s bad. It says: • That ISPs have [...]
Categories: Politics
How Do Those Teachers Union Retirement Packages Look Now?
LA Times – The Golden State isn’t worth it<br/> Our high-benefit/high-tax model no longer works, especially compared with low-tax states like Texas. By William Voegeli
So, the comparison is with Texas, which has low taxes and used to have crappy roads, crappy schools, etc and California had wonderful roads and schools etc. But now Texas roads and [...]
Categories: Politics
