tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39412382011-11-05T22:22:56.961-04:00A Journal on Freedom, Faith, and FishingRollCasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03187869955773830620noreply@blogger.comBlogger8091100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3941238.post-64495089234052859412011-11-05T22:22:00.001-04:002011-11-05T22:22:57.187-04:00

With which of these statements do you agree? The prevalence of gun-related violent crime requires that we remove the possession of handguns and "assault weapons" from 2nd Amendment protections. There should be limits imposed by government on the amount of money that an individual can make per year. Freedom of speech should not include "hate speech", that is, speech that is considered offensive

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The conflict in Iraq continues.

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One Lousy Fly Fishing Year for the Huron River. The chart says it all.

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But We Meant So Well...The Washington Post chronicles the waste of hundreds of millions of dollars in the Department of Housing and Urban Development on public housing projects that are either ficticious or going nowhere. This is a perfect example of the brain-dead spending that has been going on year in and year out by the Federal government, apparently with no accountability.

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Essential Reading:Victor Davis Hansen on how our view of entitlement is going to change...quickly.The Wall Street Journal chronicles our slide to insolvency.Mark Steyn considers the post-American planet.

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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economyNoonan: He is a Loser.Now it becomes clear why experience is important: the President has gamed the debt ceiling crisis into a very serious risk of a downgrade of US debt instruments. The lofty speeches won't save us now.

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Just Because It Is So Beautiful.

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Politically-Induced Alcoholism.Steven Ratnner has penned an excellent critique on the ethanol racket in the United States. He states clearly what many pols know but dare not speak: the US program to promote ethanol production for transporation fuels drives food prices up, is comparable in the energy to produce it than in what it displaces in petroleum, has led to a bizarre and contradictory

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What a "Three-to-One" Deficit Solution Means.As the United States hurdles toward the Great Debt Extinction Asteroid, the predictable calls for "reasonableness" in a solution have manifested themselves in the "Three-to-One" Proposal: 3 parts spending cuts to 1 part tax increases. Exactly how reasonable is such a solution in what it would require for tax increases?The "long term" solution proposes

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Ultra Premium Irony.Yesterday the United States Government announced the release of 30M barrels of oil from the SPR to help ameliorate the effects of rising oil prices on economic recovery. We note, however, the effect of the Gulf drilling moratorium and glacial rate of new drilling permitting imposed by the Administration has been to reduce domestic oil production by 240K barrels per day, or

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The Closing of the Krugman Mind.PK recently commented on his reading tastes in politics and economics. He finds nothing on the web from a conservative point-of-view that is worth reading regularly. Nothing. One can only hope that he no longer teaches students.

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We Have to Destroy Jobs to Save Them.Boeing has invested $750M in the construction of a new assembly plant to produce the 787 Dreamliner in South Carolina. It is expected that over 3000-4000 high value-added, high-paying jobs will be created by Boeing in South Carolina, not including the knock-on effect of additional job creation by others to support this effort. Boeing's effort is the largest

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Greenspan on Squawk.A very sober discussion with the former Fed chairman on the debt, and our future fiscal priorities. Seniors may not like what they hear.

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Do Senators Understand Markets?Maria Cantwell, D-OR, one of the Senatorial Interrogators during Big Oil's recent appearance on the Hill, demanded to know what the price of the next marginal produced barrel of oil "should be". Exxon's CEO Rex Tillerson replied between $60-$70. Ms. Cantwell deduced that given the price of oil is around $100 per barrel, this disparity demonstrated the immoral

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Socialism with a Democrat Face.Here's a snippet of the Kudlow interview with Nancy Pelosi on CNBC today. They're discussing the Dem's desire to revoke Big Oil's tax deductions:Kudlow: They’re deductions are the same as all the manufacturing companies.Rep. Pelosi: So why do they need — yeah, they shouldn’t be. They shouldn’t be.Kudlow: Why not?Rep. Pelosi: Because manufacturing, you’re making

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Krugman: The New Deal and Great Society Worth Blowing It All Up.In a panel discussion on ABC's "This Week", Paul Krugman suggested that the Left go to the wall to defend the Welfare State by risking default on Government debt. Retiring FDIC chair Shelia Bair was alarmed at this proposal. Silly Shelia, he's a Nobel Prize Winning Economist! Krugman knows best!

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For Dad.

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A Thought About Spending.Government spending is now so large that a year's budget equals 43% of the adjusted gross income of its citizens.

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Touchdown, Navy.

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And If We Cut Defense...?The DoD budget is about $600B for FY 2010. If we cut it by 25%, that's only $150B toward deficit reduction. So please, continue the delusion that Entitlements Shall Not Be Reduced...

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Did GE Pay Federal Income Tax in 2010?It seems like a straightforward question, and the New York Times claimed they had found the answer: "[GE] American Tax Bill? None."Then Business Insider started poking around a bit and found a much more complicated story, with plenty of spin. In fact the spin is continuing. When the room stopped spinning, it appears the facts are:GE did pay plenty of taxes in

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Putting $61 Billion in Perspective.The figure from the Cato Institute shows just how bizarre the outage over the proposed $61B cuts truly is: since 2001 the budget has increased $170B per year, over twice the proposed reduction for the 2011 budget.If we can't summon the "courage" to cut a mere 3,5% of the increase of the last ten years, then we deserve to have our creditors force our hands and

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Famous Nappers. The Art of Manliness discusses the midday siestas of eight great men.

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Frankenbanks.Andrew Sorkin's financial blog at the NYT reports on the status of the payback of TARP loans. What the authors reveal is troubling. It seems that the taxpayer is getting straight-armed by some banks who still owe us hundreds of millions yet are turning substantial profits or buying up other troubled institutions or loans.Some of this makes sense: if a given bank's management is

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Tax Myths.We're still feasting on the wealth of data found at the Tax Foundation website, for example the Summary of Federal Income Tax Data.A recent survey revealed that a majority of Americans believe the myth that the budget deficit can be fixed by eliminating "waste, fraud, and abuse".The Tax Foundation data, however, dispels another myth, namely that a "millionaire's tax" would solve the

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$60B in Cuts Won't Cut It.Here is a simple pictorial showing the relative sizes of the budget, the fraction of the budget just to pay interest on the debt, and the size of budget cuts proposed by Congers. Those cuts won't even make the interest payment. This is simply pathetic.

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More Tax Arithmetic.Let us expand our discussion of income and tax demographics and discern what is realistic in dealing with budgets approaching critical mass. The following is the distribution of 2008 adjusted gross incomes and their accompanying federal income taxes:Income Percentile Income Threshold ($K) Number of Returns (M)AGI ($T) AGI - Fraction of Total Federal Tax Paid ($B) Tax -

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Are We Taxed Too Little?The Tax Foundation breaks down the National Adjusted Gross Income (NAGI), and total federal income tax (TFIT) paid by income brackets:Top 1% : 20% NAGI , 38% TFIT5%-1% : 15% NAGI, 21% TFIT10%-5%: 11% NAGI, 11% TFIT25%-10%: 21% NAGI, 16% TFIT50%-25%: 20% NAGI, 11% TFITLower 50%: 13% NAGI, 3% TFITIndeed, the lower 45% of income earners pay no federal income tax,

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A Letter to Our Congresscritter.Dear Congressman Walberg,During the 2010 election, the GOP advocated for serious budget reform. The American people concurred with their opinion and voted for a Republican majority for the House of Representatives. We now need for you and your House colleagues to demonstate to the American people that their trust placed in the GOP was justified.The coming debt

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Dissipation.Ross Douthat examines the codependent relationship between the media and the trainwreck Sarah Palin.Palin has squandered a superb opportunity: the recipient of a quantum leap in politics during the 2008 election, Ms. Palin could have consolidated her gains with a continued competent governing of Alaska, sober study of international and domestic affairs (for example, using her

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No Truer Words...You see, that's the whole point of being the government. If you don't like something you simply make up a new law that makes it illegal- Sir Alistair Dormandy, from "Pirate Radio"

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Custom-Made History.Edward Rothstein observes how the curators of "identity museums", by pandering to resentments and grievances, are corrupting the telling of history.

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The Digital, Social Networked Nativity.A brilliant little video forwarded by a friend from Inside Catholic. Avoid Romans.

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China Hijacks the Wind Energy Market.There are consequences when the United States gives China a trillion or so dollars in net trade: the Chinese use that money to capture new world markets and push others out. One example is the wind energy industry. Just a few years ago the United States and some European firms were poised to explosively grow their wind energy markets in the U.S. and China (one

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On Being Irresponsible.There are too many things we are told to do because they are important to other people and we have been gulled into thinking they must be important to us as well. Richard Feynman reminds us otherwise.

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Green Shoots in Winter.Isaiah 11:1-10 11:1 A shoot shall come out from the stump of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of his roots.11:2 The spirit of the LORD shall rest on him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and the fear of the LORD.(The picture is of a Bavarian ivory panel, circa 1200, depicting the Tree of Jesse. Image

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'Tis the Season.For decades Christians have been hectored regarding tolerance for other religious beliefs or atheism. We wonder whether the self-proclaimed foes of Christianity and its traditional Catholic or Protestant expressions even understand its essence: the reconciliation of Man with God, Man's salvation through Him, and the spiritual transformation of Man by God. This Christian claims no

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Such a Feast!This correspondent derives great joy in making the Thanksgiving Feast for loved ones. In particular we like to find recipes that pay tribute to the traditional board, but with a twist:Beer-Brined Apple-Smoked TurkeyWild Rice with Turkey Stock and RaisinsBraised Spinach with Bacon and OnionCranberry-Orange RelishBlackberry PieAnd a nap (completely traditional).

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Thanksgiving 2010.From Nathaniel Morton's journal of the Plymouth Colony:...Being now passed the vast ocean, and a sea of troubles before them in expectations, they had now no friends to welcome them, no inns to entertain or refresh them, no houses, or much less towns, to repair unto to seek for succour; and for the season it was winter, and they that know the winters of the country know them to

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Lisa Heart Pork!Presumptive Senator-reelect Lisa Morekowbell Merkofski Mooorrrkkouzky M%$#@*..ththt Myxlplyx Murkowski (R), citing Alaska's recent entry into the Union(!), has vowed to fight for her right to earmark taxpayer money from the Lower 48 for Noble Projects for the Last Frontier.A list of these projects, all $80M of them for 2010, are listed here. Note that many of these are defense

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The Christian Student.Stanley Hauerwas pens a superb letter of advice to Christian college students, and for the rest us, too.

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Yeah, Cut'em Loose.With the brouhaha over NPR's sacking of Juan Williams, we thought it might be worth calling the question: Is National Public Radio really public radio? Our thoughts on this consideration, from an earlier post, can be found here.

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The Big Rolls in the Game.The Center for Responsive Politics has tabulated the spending by independent organizations (i.e., not the political parties). Here are the totals:Pro-GOP: $140.0MUS Chamber of Commerce - $75.0M"American Crossroads" (Rovian Cabal) - $65.0MPro-Dem: $171.5MAFSCME - $87.5MSEIU - $44.0MNEA - $40.0MIn our local Congressional race, Democrat Mark Schauer has received about $1M

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The Dry Rot at NPR Breaks Through.Willie Geist and Mike Barnacle speak out about NPR's firing of Juan Williams.For the record, here is the Google search tagline for Juan's NPR page, now removed:Juan Williams, one of America's leading journalists, is a news analyst with NPR News. He also works on documentaries and participates in NPR's efforts to ...Well, at least they used to think he was a

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Heads They Win, Tails We Lose.For the second consecutive year, Social Security payments will not increase. Federal rules require that COLA increases occur when the Consumer Price Index is higher than the previous year. However, when the CPI is constant or falls, SSI payments are fixed at the previous year's level' and increases do not resume until the CPI exceeds that level.Until 2009 this

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A Tax Gedanken Experiment.N. Gregory Mankiw, Harvard professor of economics and confessed fat-cat, runs through the math of the proposed tax hikes, and finds that, combined with current tax rates, it will effectively zero out all growth in his next dollar.

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Dust to Dust.This scene from "F for Fake" tries to answer the question "and who stood here?"

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Not Business as Usual?Two nuggets in the news that add to the increasing pile of evidence that we are doomed:A UAW chapter has nixed a deal to sell an Indianapolis parts plant that would have kept its doors open, albeit with lower wages and benefits. The opponents' rationale was that when the plant closes, many of the union workers will be able to transfer to other plants, keeping their current

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Scooting to Insolvency.An often-encountered TV commercial: offers for senior mobility scooters with where Medicare picks up the cost...Scooters for seniors are a good thing, as is any medical technology or treatment that helps people lead more comfortable and productive lives. As health care becomes more entwined with politics, one can forsee the pressure for Medicare and Medicaid to pick up the

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Taking the High Road.Democrats will stick to the issues for the rest of the campaign, the NYT reports. Critical issues like their opponents' divorces, drinking, bankruptcies, philandery, lawsuits, kids' bad grades, and fashion sense.

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So Much for Free Trade.China is trying to bully Japan to give up control of some of her fishing waters by halting exports to Japan of technologically critical rare-earth elements.

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An Observation.Four years ago, our TV was bombarded by ads for Jumbo home loans, teaser-rate home loans, no-interest home loans, etc. Now we see many ads for companies that will help you "walk away from your mortgage, scott-free". God, what hath we wrought?

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Obamacare's Collateral Damage.Tucked in the deep recesses of the Obamacare Law is this mind-blowing tax-reporting provision (as reported by the Paper of Record): ...To improve compliance, the new health care law requires businesses to file tax forms known as 1099s identifying anyone to whom they pay $600 or more for goods or merchandise in a year. Businesses will also have to send copies of the

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The President's View on Taxing Investment Return.Another telling moment at the President's CNBC Wall Street Town Hall: during an exchange about taxes on the Ultrarich, the President suggested that it was only reasonable that a Big Wheel should pay taxes on his dividend income at a rate closer to the higher rate that his secretary pays on her wages. Perhaps the President forgot that taxes were

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Wonderland Comes to the Street.On CNBC the Lecturer in Chief expounded on the economy, blaming others (GOP, Bush, the Ultrarich) for all problems, and generally how those who disagree with him are just so wrong. Lots of Obamites in the town hall crowd, and one could swear there was an APPLAUSE sign over them. Outrage of the event: the President claimed that government is less intrusive than it

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Now That's Efficiency!From CNBC: Senator Carl Levin will attend A123 Systems' opening of its new car battery plant today in Livonia, Michigan. It will provide 3000 jobs...provided by $2.4B of Federal Stimulus Ham. That's a paltry $800K per job. Observers of the electric car business note that there may already exist a substantial surplus in electric car battery production in the U.S. Levin's

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Iran Gaming Nuclear Inspections.The New York Times reports that Tehran refuses access of the IAEA's most experienced inspectors to its nuclear development programs, including the agency's chief inspector for Middle East nuclear programs.

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Acceptance Through Irrelevance?Fred Schwarz pens a thoughtful essay on the changes in the American political and religous landscape fifty years after JFK's speech to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association.

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Tony Blair Stands Firm.Former British Prime Minister was goaded by Christiane Amanpour to concede that intervening in Iraq was a mistake, and he would have nothing to do with it. Ms. Amanpour's frustration in clearly evident in the video as Mr. Blair strays from "the narrative".

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A Bend in the River.This lay-historian continues to be (naively) baffled that when a society passes a "major historical juncture", that the occurrence of this event is not considered obvious. This is setting aside any consideration as to what course needs to be set to navigate beyond this point.We believe that a clear - and simple - declaration of such a historical juncture that Western

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While You Were Out, Civilization was Changed.From yesterday's ruling from San Francisco's Federal Circuit Court, striking down California's Proposition 8: "Gender no longer forms an essential part of marriage".Better make that a double, Joe.

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The Un-Christianity.The American Spectator reviews Mortal Follies: Episcopalians and the Crisis of Mainline Christianity, by William Murchison. He chronicles the decline of this historically critical Protestant denomination, correlated with its "rejection of orthodoxy in favor of cultural and political fads, regardless of the spiritual consequences". The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (

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Sorry, Bernie.The Iranian Government's Ministry of Culture has issued a list of acceptable haircuts. (the picture is of the beloved "Bernie" from the early '70s TV show, "Room 222")

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Lost in Space.NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, a decent and brave man, shared the President's primary goal he envisions for NASA: reaching out to the Muslim world, so that they can feel good about their contributions to math and science. We are not making this up. In contrast, let us remember this moment shown below, that occured nearly fifty years ago:President Obama's vision for NASA is

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Independency!Give us a country where we each can seek and fulfill our destiny, as we see fit. Give us a country where our rights are issued not from pen of a king, but from the hand of God. Give us a country where we loan the smallest portion of these rights to the State for proscribed exercise. Give us a country where charity towards our fellow man comes freely from our hearts inspired by God,

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The McChrystal Imbroglio.Should a capable general be fired over a "they said that he said" article in Rolling Stone? The latest report is that the general will arrive at the White House with resignation letter in hand.Perhaps General McChrystal has been asking the President to answer the Four Essential Questions of Strategy, as stated by Thomas Ricks, author of Fiasco:Who are we?What are we

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Pointless, Valueless Theater.Tony Hayward, CEO of BP, is not an Oil Man. His pedigree is finance, serving in the corporation's Mergers and Acquisitions department for the majority of tenure at BP. In today's testimony to Congers, it was very clear that Hayward was not there to answer questions specific to his expertise, but was summoned so that Congresscritters could look good to the "little

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Calling Gene Kranz!There are Oil Men who know what to do. We don't care who they work for or where they live, pound on their doors and get them in here!

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Yup, Never Let a Crisis Go to Waste.The Wall Street Journal comments on how the Administration used the good name of oil engineering experts to push ideology.

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The Failure of Risk Management.Nansen Saleri, former head of reservoir management for Saudi Aramco, provides a non-hysterical, apolitical, and sober analysis of oilshore oil drilling in the shadow of the Deepwater Horizon accident. His claim is that the principal failure that lead to the catastrophe was that of effective risk management. Saleri also reminds us that shutting down offshore drilling

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Dim-Bulb Debbie Strikes Again.Michigan's Junior Senator, Debbie Stabenow continues to embarass her state. We are not inclined to ad hominem attacks on congresscritters. But we'll suspend our restraint for this one, extraordinary moment: Debbie Stabenow is a Chucklehead. She believes that the power, dignity, and solemn gravity of her office should be used to call for the Commissioner of Baseball

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The "Competence" Theme Snowballs. Tom Coburn's appearance on a recent Morning Joe says it all. But if you need additional ammunition, read Peggy Noonan's recent WSJ column. But to be fair, this is problem is beyond Mr. Obama or any president. It's a loss of vision by our leadership - and the electorate - of what constitutes conscientious stewardship of our Republic.

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Bonding Over Brookies.Yesterday we took the younger son and his girlfriend flyfishing for brook trout on the North Branch of the Ausable. The single day's drive was brutal, the sun was penetrating, the air was hot, the water was low, and the fishing was so-so. But the experience was priceless. The girlfriend, being a flyfishing greenhorn, naturally caught the nicest fish of the day. The son, full

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An Emerging Theme.Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal was interviewed by ABC News' Jake Tapper about the strange laxidasical behavior by the United States Government regarding the protection of his state's coastal wetlands. Aha! thought Jake, doesn't this contradict his conservative view of limited government? Jindal replied:“When government grows too big, it doesn't do its core functions properly.

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Is Big Oil Undermining US Security?Larry Kudlow has been dogging oil giants Shell, BP, and Total about selling the Pentagon refined petroleum with one hand while paying Iran for the crude with the other. That's money that goes to kill Americans in Afghanistan and build nuclear weapons.

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More Bad News About Unicorns.News reports indicate that they are close to extinction in Italy, too.

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Yet Another "Emergency" Spending Bill.Remember the bill to extend unemployment insurance for which Senator Jim Bunning had the cruelty to ask "who pays for it"? Well, get ready for another "emergency" job stimulus and tax loophole closing (tax and spend for short) bill coming from Congers. Pay as you go? Come on, that is soooo two months ago!We are heading for a tipping point in cynicism of the

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A Time for All Things.Like Milton in Office Space, Utah Senator Robert Bennett just can't accept that he is being let go. The Nattering Nabobs are mourning Bennett's loss: how could the rabble* turn out such a marvelous patrician and "cut short" a stellar political career?Because if we accept a Ruling Class, as many in the Beltway do, we are doomed. It's not a lifetime appointment; you serve at

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Unicorns No Longer Found in Spain!Spain announced austerity measures, including a 5% cut in the pay of civil servants. You know, those guys that don't create wealth, just consume it? The Spanish workers, convinced that the government is hiding the unicorns in secret warehouses, have called for a national strike on June 8. Meanwhile there are plenty of free-lance unicorn hunters among the 20% of

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EU to Greece: No More Unicorns for You.George Will delivered a great lecture at Princeton on "The Dependency Agenda". The end result of what Will describes is now playing out in Greece.

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Desert Island Economics Reading.If you had only one short essay you could read about the financial mess, its causes and its cure, it should be "An Economy of Liars", by the Cato Institute's Gerald O'Driscoll.

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Suffering Fools.George Will has his hands full on ABC's This Week, facing such scintillating intellects as Bill Maher, Al Sharpton, and Katrina Vanderfloogle, as he argues for enforcement current federal law. What magical ordinances will "comprehensive immigration reform" possess such that it will not be necessary to confront people, with reasonable cause, to determine if they are registered

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So It Begins...This year, dedicated to the proposition that one should actually catch some fish on Opening Weekend, we set out Friday morning for a preemptive strike on North Branch of the Au Sable River (the always-open Flies Only section). We calculated that landing a brace of trout on Friday would demonstrate to the River Gods that we were no Gee-Gaws and were worthy of their plaudits and

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Princess Petra. Our wonderful new addition to our family, courtesy of American Brittany Rescue. Don't you dare try to take her duck away!

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Is David Frum Right?Partly. Frum has criticized the GOP for adopting a Nyet! strategy on healthcare, supposedly fomented by the Radio Talkosphere. Frum noted that the version of Obamacare that was signed is very similar to Massachussetts' Romneycare, so the GOP was a trifle hypocritical in their opposition.Frum is right to claim that a Nyet! strategy was wrong, but it wasn't wrong for Obamacare.

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How Dare They Cut Earnings!Congresscritter Henry Waxman, enraged that Catepillar, John Deere, AT&T and other corporations have restated lower earnings to reflect higher immediate costs from Obamacare, will be holding an Inquisition to personally berate them for their impertinent honesty.

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Let the Party Bee-Gin!MSNBC's Rachel Maddow gleefully laid out the rain of goodies to be expected from Obamacare. As a public service we provide some commentary and include some of the other events that will occur during the first few years of the rollout (points marked with * indicate reforms that are commonly accepted as part of less intrusive solutions):2010:Tax credits for small businesses to

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The Mount Vernon Statement.Getting back to basics.

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Come An' Git It!Health Care Fer All? Sure! Let the taxin' bee-gin! Them savin's? In them Out Years! (read: when Hell freezes up!) Too "sceered" to pass it the way we all larned in school? Sure, sneek it under the door! This is just too important! Now brang on that-there Ammisty! Thar's another 20 million fer Health Care! Maw, git that printin' press a'churnin!

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Shame!Yes, shame and disdain on Senator Jim Bunning for his arrogance in believing that when Congers enacted "Pay As You Go" budgeting that they meant it.

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So What?Today the President gave yet another speech on healthcare, supposedly to announce inclusion of ideas championed by GOP Healthcarewonks into the "process". But, ahem...nothing in the present process has changed: the two chambers of Congress have only their respective bills to negotiate, which are the same as they were when they were passed. Today's exercise by the President is akin to ad

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Cue the Sharks...Any proposal to "privatize" a portion of the Social Security program is met with pitchforks and torches from the Left. They kvetch about gambling with the old folks' money in the stock market. However, they feel it is perfectly reasonable to lure savers and investors into the promise of a "guaranteed annuity" from the Gummint in exchange for taking their IRAs and 401(k) accounts

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Some Social Security Math.Just a point of reference for understanding what is reasonable in the discussing Social Security reform: under the present system, consider a person enters the workforce at 25, with a starting yearly income of $20K, an annual raise of 5% (inflation + merit), and an employee+employer deduction for Social Security of 12.4%, using the current cap of $106,800. Upon

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The Rant Heard 'Round the World.February 19, 2009: the day we finally said: NO! It's not about birth certificates, secret socialist plans, or all that other nonsense. It is about preserving the greatest economy in history by insisting on responsibility by individuals, corporations, and the government. The true message is not partisan, it's about accepting some very bitter medicine: serious and

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GOP: Come Out Swinging.The President has asked for a sit down with GOP leaders on healthcare. Call his bluff: come in with a lean, free-market plan that solves the problems that all agree upon.

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Oh, If Everyday Could Be a Snowday!The Gummint will be closed tomorrow because of "The Big Snowjob" (not to be confused with "The Budget Freeze", but the latter does possess qualities of the former). Perhaps Mother Nature can do what the Congresscritters can't: restrain the growth and spending of the federal government.

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Walking with Brahms.The University of Michigan's Music faculty perform recitals regularly; this afternoon featured Brahms's Piano Quartet in A Major, Opus 26 (1862). The opening, Allegro non troppo, carries one away to wet, windswept ridge (well, that's where it carried us). Here is part of the opening, as performed by Sviatoslav Richter and the Borodin Quartet.

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The Truth That Nobody Dares To Speak.Except for David Rosenberg, as reprinted by one of the best financial websites in the world, Minyanville:The current level of US outstanding nonfederal debt is $27 trillion, which is astounding both in absolute terms and even more so relative to nonfederal GDP -- a 206% ratio. It is down fractionally from the 208% peak, but here is the rub. If mean-reversion

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The Definition of Insanity.Small businesses not expanding? Well, let's give them the Subprime Special!Speaking of Fannie and Freddie... - Stephen Spruiell - The Corner on National Review Online

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Bill Gates, Red China Doll.Bill Gates has pooh-poohed concerns about internet censorship in Red China (yes, we still think that way), undercutting Secretary of State Clinton calls for greater freedom of expression there and Google's claims that Red Chinese operatives have conducted cyber espionage against its employees. Gates claimed that internet censorship in Red China is "limited", comparable

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