Month: August 2011

Sadie’s daily tour of the Internet revealed this little tidbit: S&P execs’ donations have favored Democrats in recent cycles By Bob Cusack and Christopher Goins – 08/05/11 09:46 PM ET Senior executives for the company that downgraded the nation’s credit rating on Friday night have made political donations to Democrats

So, what’s wrong with profits?   I propose that much of the uncivil discourse currently taking place in our country distills down to fundamental misunderstandings of, combined with mean streaks of envy toward, profits.   I just love the incongruity of the Left hammering profit-making corporations while bewailing the fact

One of the last things I read before leaving the cruise ship this morning was a New York Times headline claiming that 82% of Americans are angry at Congress for focusing on deficit cutting rather than “job creation.”. (Translation: Americans hate job-destroying “terrorist” Tea Partiers.) Assuming for the moment that

If there were ever any doubt that the media leans to the left (I know, I know, there’s not) it shows in its treatment of disagreements between Republicans and Democrats.  When Democrats want to change something and Republicans disagree, the Republicans are the bad guys, standing in the way of progress

We had a discussion the other day about unions.  They were useful 100 years ago, in promoting child labor laws and the like.  But what are they up to today?  Here’s an example, from Michelle Malkin’s book, Culture of Corruption: “But the most glaring example of the Obama culture of

DQ here:  Check out the link, too, with some very interesting charts.   Now Sadie’s comment:   A visionary with rose colored glasses. Feh! April 2011 http://directorblue.blogspot.com/

The Wall Street Journal, having reluctantly arrived at the same conclusions that we Bookwormroom groupies had already formulated, feels that Keynesianism has been totally, totally discredited by recent events “The economies of Europe and the United States have arrived at the moment when they no longer have any conceivable hope of

We spent the morning today in Palermo.  I wish I had more to say about it, but I just don’t. I can’t figure out if it wouldn’t have been my cup of tea under any circumstances, or if I’m just getting soured after more travel than I really like. I

Old Buckeye posted the following comment:  “Aren’t ridicule and belittling supposed to be in the playbook of the ‘rules for radicals?’ I think I’m going to adopt a similar stance when speaking to people I know who voted for him the first time. Say things such as ‘I can’t believe

Here are this week’s full results: Council Winners *First place with 3 1/3 votes! Joshuapundit––The Most Dangerous Story In The News Today Second place *t*   with 2 votes – The Colossus of Rhodey –Think like a “progressive” Second place *t*   with 2 votes – Simply Jews-Understanding Israeli right and left,

I’d been thinking about two topics for a post and then I realized they are interrelated. Topic 1 — After the market crashed today, I heard an interview with a financial analyst on the radio.  When asked what would turn things around he said one thing:  “Jobs, jobs, jobs.  We

This one is from Sadie and it demonstrates that Clinton is not the one who can get credit for the balanced budget on his watch.  Of course it also demonstrates that there is plenty of blame to go around for the unbalanced budgets before and since.  The overall point, that

I had no expectations whatsoever about Tunisia. Going into it, I knew only three things:  it’s on the northeastern tip of Africa, very near Sicily; ancient Carthage was where Tunisia now is; and it had a revolution in January 2011 that lit the spark for the Arab Spring. I now

I’ve always wondered at the alliance between personally conservative union workers and untra liberal academics and government types.  It looks like Obama, with his leftist leanings and strong union support, bridges the gap. Sadie sends along this interesting story right from Chicago, that may reflect a bit of this: The lesson: if you