Those skyrocketing oil prices, don’t worry about it. No big deal. This from The Washington Times: President Obama’s top economic adviser said Thursday the White House is monitoring the spike in oil prices as a result of uprisings in Libya, but said that recent fluctuations aren’t likely to derail the U.S. economic recovery. Austan Goolsbee, […]
More of your money, more of my money, more of everybody’s money. For a little distributing of the wealth, don’t you know. Check out the latest from Flinthead elitist Michael Moore: “They’re sitting on the money, they’re using it for their own — they’re putting it someplace else with no interest in helping you with […]
Any dictator worth his salt holds a rank or a title befitting his position. Hitler was der Fuehrer, Stalin a Premier and Castro the leader of the people’s revolution. Despots invariably come packaged with lofty monikers, either by personal choice or popular declaration. So what happened to Col. Muammar Gaddafi? Gaddafi is no doubt the […]
One of the ways to rationalize government employment is to write regulations. It is a simple process: for every new regulation more policing agents must be hired to ensure the regulations are abided by. Those who receive payment for such employment include those who produce and process the paperwork, as well as those who actually […]
A fork in the road tells travelers that their current path has ended. The travelers are then compelled to decide among the four choices a fork presents. The first options are obvious; choose one of the new paths. The third option is to be satisfied with their current position and remain at the fork. The […]
One of the great fight songs of all time is “On Wisconsin!” which is usually reserved for the Fighting Badgers of the University of Wisconsin football team: “Forward is our driving spirit; Loyal voices ring,” the song proclaims. Retreating and running away from their elective duties seems more like their ‘driving spirit’ nowadays, what with […]
Wisconsin looks like Greece. The recipients of government largess, upon threat of losing it, take to the streets in protest. Their employers, the various schools systems, do not tell them to take off, their union bosses do, and so they lay out of work to protest. As the failure of major public pension funds looms […]
First we have Democrat legislators fleeing Wisconsin, holing up in out-of-state mystery locations to avoid voting on a fiscal bill designed to save help save the state from bankruptcy by limiting collective-bargaining rights for most state union member workers; now we have more of the same in Indiana. All because left-wing Democrat politicians, bastions of […]
Always vigilant House Guest columnist Michael Love forwards us an enlightening and sobering chart that’s been floating around the ‘net. Take a look for yourself and share your thoughts: January 2009 TODAY % chg Source Avg. retail price/gallon gas in U.S. $1.83 $3.104 69.6% 1 Crude oil, European Brent (barrel) $43.48 $99.02 127.7% 2 […]
Maybe the U.S. Postal Service should change its unofficial motto to ‘neither snow, nor rain, nor pricey flights to Spain and loads of porn’ will prevent delivery of the mail. A recently released Postal Service Inspector General’s audit found that postal workers were using government-issued credit cards meant for travel and lodging expenses to buy […]
