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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

A new reason to rescue yesterday’s t-shirts from the back of your closet. Once upon a time, it was your statement to the world — a show of school pride, a taste for graphic design, a photo of your favorite singer’s mug shot. These days, it probably sits unworn in [...]

Categories: Business & Media

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

This whole thing has been very entertaining. The situation they’re in, the protests, then the German reaction, etc etc…

Germans say euro zone may have to expel Greece: poll

The poll also showed 67 percent of Germans did not want Germany and other EU states to give billions of euros in credit to Greece. [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

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 [...]

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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

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, [...]

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SF Weekly – The Worst-Run Big City in the U.S.<br/> Spend more. Get less. We’re the city that knows how.

Despite its good intentions, San Francisco is not leading the country in gay marriage. Despite its good intentions, it is not stopping wars. Despite its spending more money per capita on homelessness than any comparable [...]

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This is quite depressing, but as we’ve been on the subject:

The Times – Doncaster was always a poor dreary town — but so much better off than today

But along with these municipal big boys, the product of £1.4 billion of central funding, Doncaster was reaching other highs: most corrupt council, worst child protection [...]

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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 [...]

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The Times – Go home and multiply! Bank gives staff an early night to halt Japan’s falling birthrate

With the recovery tenuous, deflation afflicting all levels of commerce and the country at risk of sovereign debt crisis, it seemed an odd time for Japan’s biggest and most austere banking group to be telling its [...]

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I read this and thought, “public school teachers have the same problem here,” but haven’t seen anyone say as much. Anyway it’s all very, very silly:

The Times – How will a degree help a frightened patient? I see no evidence that graduates make better nurses. My fear is that too much theory risks making them ‘too [...]

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No, because I’ve avoided buying anything that gets delivered by UPS.

UPS’s lawyers won’t let them leave things at our building without a signature because who knows how long ago someone either scammed them or had someone actually steal something and made UPS cover the costs. Fine, fair enough, but in this small collection of starter [...]

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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

Telegraph Blogs – Jean Sarkozy could be the next Alexander the Great

But this focus on age is very narrow-minded. Since when was there an age limit for people to be capable of doing important jobs? Take Alexander the Great. He took the throne of Macedon when he was 19 years [...]

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