Bookworm on Jan 27 2013 | Filed under: California
Tweet The San Francisco Chronicle has an article that both praises Governor Jerry Brown’s “balanced” budget and notes that California is in desperate financial shape. Clearly, the Chron is lowering expectations in case Brown’s “balanced” budget doesn’t do what it promised. The Chron is wise to keep its readers from getting too excited. I heard [...]
Bookworm on Aug 14 2012 | Filed under: Economics
Tweet Danny Lemieux left a link to this video in the comments. I think it deserves its own post. You might also want to share it with your friends. It’s studiously non-partisan, so one hopes it will make liberals thoughtful, rather than defensive. Incidentally, if any of your liberal friends think the answer is just [...]
Bookworm on Jan 24 2012 | Filed under: Democrats
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Bookworm on May 12 2010 | Filed under: Government
Tweet Cool. UPDATE: Thanks, Cottus. The typos I make, of course, are meant to ensure that, despite my impressive pedigree (which, Obama-like, I’ll keep hidden from you and, instead, I’ll just repeat that it really is as impressive as I say it is), I’m still one of “the little people.”
Bookworm on Jul 08 2009 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Economics, Health, Taxes
Tweet In his most recent article at the Wall Street Journal, Karl Rove explains in great detail how Barack Obama told quite obvious lies about the stimulus numbers, only to pretend now that he didn’t really mean what he said. (That’s the lying pattern I’ve told you about.) The American people were good and fooled. [...]
Bookworm on Mar 22 2009 | Filed under: Media matters
Tweet Zhombre alerted me to the AP’s problem when it tries to balance its story line (Obama good) with the facts, whatever they happen to be. Here’s the question Zhombre asked: “It there some dissonance between the first and second sentences or it is me? Does the AP lead completely contradict what Senator Gregg actually [...]
Bookworm on Jan 05 2009 | Filed under: Economics, Government
Tweet I like the way Drudge tends to snapshot trends. Here’s an interesting one, considering the looming deficits federal, state and local governments face: What’s missing from the above list, of course, is CUTS. Lawmakers are figuring out as hard and as fast as they can ways to drain more money from the taxpayers. The [...]
Bookworm on Nov 07 2008 | Filed under: Economics, Education
Tweet I suspect that, once Obama starts raising taxes, buyer’s remorse is going to set in with incredible speed. This article focuses on the local economy, but is a harbinger of what will happen when taxes go up on a larger, national scale: A temporary 1.5 percentage point sales tax increase proposed Thursday by Gov. [...]
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