Conflucians Say: “Fire!” over Social Security

Well, the Obots can’t say they weren’t warned about Obama.  We told them he wasn’t a liberal.  It looks like he is onboard with tinkering with Social Security.  If I were him and actually *cared* about the economy, I would back away from Social Security reeeeal slllloow like.  It’s not just a retirement fallback, it’s [...]

Don’t worry guys, its natural to objectify women.

I am no scientist, but this kind of thing always makes me just a little bit uncomfortable. It’s as if they’re trying to find an excuse for bad behavior. It may seem obvious that men perceive women in sexy bathing suits as objects, but now there’s science to back it up. New research shows that, [...]

Afghanistan: “Obama’s War”

This was the lead story – front-page, above-the-fold-in yesterday’s edition of USA Today: Obama’s war: Deploying 17,000 raises stakes in Afghanistan. I found this striking because almost every other news venue was covering economic issues, devoting attention either to the slightly expanded mortgage-holder relief program that the Obama administration is beginning to push or the [...]

Turdblossom Says Obama Is “Winging It”

Donna Brazile’s BFF may be a despicable human being, but he’s one of the people who tells the media what to think and say.  In today’s WSJ Karl Rove gives us a preview of what is likely to be the media narrative for the next few weeks: Team Obama demonstrated remarkable discipline during the presidential [...]

Thursday: Japan or Sweden?

Planet Money discusses the Swedish model of bank nationalization in its latest podcast.  In 1994, Sweden went through its own financial meltdown.  In some ways, it sounds similar to what is happening here in the US.  The economy heated up and people borrowed and spent like there was no tomorrow.  That short term thinking turned [...]

Buncha Bigots

Eric Holder, America’s first African American Attorney General under America’s first black President, said in a speech to Department of Justice employees celebrating Black History Month, that we are a “nation of cowards“  because we don’t like to talk candidly about race.  This is wrong on so many levels. Any time we still have to [...]