Cops are now scanning license plates and recording where you were.
Archive for July, 2011
The final shares were sold to a foreign automaker, at a $1.3 Billion loss. But at least the UAW got their payoff, right?
Pirates are better customers than the average consumer. It’s more of a try-before-you-buy model.
Man, is there anything corrupt bureaucrats won’t fall for when trying to help swindle taxpayer dollars?
Maybe if he posed as a conservative with shady connections…
Michelle Obama flew to Aspen and back for a fundraiser on Tuesday. But as Glenn points out, it was probably on one of those virtuous government jets rather than evil corporate jets.
It’s like the Laffer Curve for government spending. And guess what? Just like it’s easy to show that government would earn more money if it lowered tax rates, it’s easy to figure out that the economy would grow faster if our government spent less.
But the Democrats would have less power – and that scheme is of no interest to them.
Here’s perhaps the most compelling argument for the FairTax:
Not only is the IRS the most obtrusive, privacy-violating government agency in existence, they can’t even keep the info they gather secret. And when they lose it, 36% of the time they never even tell the at-risk individuals.
It’s past time we stopped monitoring the incomes and personal lives of our citizenry.
Here’s an academic paper that shows that the Housing Tax Credit program did pretty much exactly the opposite of what it was intended to do. Just like almost every other government intervention in the markets to solve the problems we’re facing, caused pretty much entirely by government intervention in the markets.
The unions are certainly throwing what money they can into Wisconsin. It will be interesting to see what happens.
Explained by Newt Gingrich. He also has a follow-up article, discussing the massive bill we signed just a year ago, headed by Dodd and Frank, and how damaging that’s been.
At the end of last month, the Supreme Court ruled that video games get First Amendment treatment – effectively slowing down nanny-state creep into yet another area.
Secondly, the Institute for Justice got Arizona’s clean elections law struck down in the Supreme Court. It again tried to restrict private entities and individuals from participating in the election process.
Here are a couple of good articles that refute a recent pro-Keynesian article on World War II. Long answer short, but worth repeating as often as possible until the common knowledge is finally refuted: World War II was not an economic miracle, and Keynesian style spending was not what brought us out of the Great Depression. And New Deal policies prolonged the Great Depression by seven years – the only reason it ended around WWII anyway.
Notice that they have to pat down Donald Rumsfeld. And they’re still searching 94-year old grandmothers and children – or trying to. All while about seven security breaches occur a day, without going through the security process at all. It is completely and utterly inane. Honestly, how would you go about trying to create a security system more idiotic?
All of this is based on the fact that the TSA is trying to create security without actually understanding the real security threats. They are literally trying to be stupid – and wildly succeeding.
