About those “death panels”

I was reading an article at Conservatives4Palin that points out (correctly) that when the former Alaskan governor made her infamous “death panels” post on Facebook she wasn’t referring to end of life counseling. This is what Sarah Palin said: The Democrats promise that a government health care system will reduce the cost of health care, [...]

Thursday: Just get it done

Those of us who live in the corporate world by day are coming to the slow realization that getting anything done in the era of outsourcing is becoming next to impossible.  The functions we once depended on are now being performed by mysterious outside groups who offer an off the shelf service that is not [...]

Sure Happy It’s Thursday

They’re mine! All MINE!: Julian Assange: I Own All of the WikiLeaks Documents Three months after he had given the Guardian most of his collection of nearly a quarter of a million leaked documents, Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks.org, stormed into the office of Alan Rusbridger, the paper’s editor, with his lawyer. He was [...]

Pornography, Sex and “The Girls Next Door”

My secret news-source sent me this link: Women or Wine? Monogamy and Alcohol The headline is the title of an intriguing new working paper [PDF] by two University of Leuven economists Mara Squicciarini and Jo Swinnen. The two note an interesting correlation between societies that practice monogamy and those that drink alcohol. Intriguingly, across the [...]

Ch-ch-ch-changes

The Democrats have no one but themselves to blame. Hopenchange motherf**kers!

Wednesday News

Good Morning Conflucians!!! First up in weird news, in case you’re not already getting that apocalyptic vibe from earlier this week, more birds have suddenly died, this time not in Arkansas, but in Louisiana: Birds dropping dead from the skies and rivers flowing with tens of thousands of dead fish sounds like a cheesy Hollywood [...]

Saturday Night Massacre Redux

Byron York: Gerald Walpin loses appeal; court guts protections for agency watchdogs The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has rejected fired AmeriCorps inspector general Gerald Walpin’s lawsuit seeking reinstatement to his job. In a ruling issued Tuesday morning, the three-judge panel — one appointed by the first President Bush, another [...]

The truth is biased

Big Tent Democrat: There is a new celebratory quality to journalism that manifests itself in different ways. In the Beltway, it’s being in with the government In crowd. That means sacrificing objectivity and the truth. Davies seems to have allowed, indeed he appears to be celebrating, his belief that Assange is a loathsome figure (not [...]

The pornification of young girls

Ever wonder why Roman Polanski lives in France? Maybe these pictures from Vogue Paris provide the answer. If these models look kind of young it’s because they are. Everyone of them is either six or seven years old. I have a daughter who will turn 25 later this month. Her daughter will have her first [...]

The Tuesday TC News Break

Just when I thought politics and the economy was too depressing for words, it turns out regular people aren’t doing too well. And when things start going bad? Well, as often as not they just get worse. These people sound just like my next door neighbors: Pamela Rozzelle Sets Boyfriend on Fire Because She Can’t Find [...]