Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Post by Mike Rowe. This is worth considering in light of last week’s story about the San Francisco independent book store forced to closed down after the voters (probably including the bookstore owners and their employees) decided to raise the City’s minimum wage.
Continue readingWhen Greek voters elected a hard-Left politician who promised to reverse austerity, Paul Krugman celebrated wildly. In a column filled with economic cant, he explained that it was always a disaster for Greece to turn to austerity when its economy collapsed, instead of spending its way out of its financial woes:
Continue readingFound this at Tickld: I’m beginning to think that Tickld has a somewhat conservative bent.
Continue readingNo time to talk. I’ll just dive right in. The Canadian shooter: “Fox Butterfield, is that you?” If you recognize the quoted phrase above, it’s because you’ve seen it often enough in James Taranto’s Best of the Web. The “Fox Butterfield Fallacy,” Taranto explains, “consists in misidentifying as a paradox
Continue readingStill catching up from the devastation that yesterday wrought on my schedule. However, I had the chance to read a few good things: Ken Braun: The real unemployment is much higher and most Americans know it: Regardless of reasons, the net effect of a steadily rising adult population and sharply
Continue readingMy sister summed me up in a sentence: “For an incredibly neurotic person, you’re very normal and easygoing.” I know what she means. All my neuroses are turned inwards. They drive me crazy, but they don’t interfere with anyone outside of my brain. If you meet me, I’m friendly, good-humored,
Continue readingThis week, when it comes to the top stories, all is not as it seems. What struck me as I read through report after report, and opinion piece after opinion piece, is that we’re surrounded by a swirl of optics that belie the truth. Evidence to support this statement follows:
Continue readingMr. Bookworm likes Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. I don’t but, because they’re nattering away on my television, I often find myself watching them anyway. Colbert, who will soon be filling David Letterman’s vacant chair, has a shtick. His shtick is that he’s a conservative, so his humor ostensibly attacks
Continue readingIt’s actually not random that I’m putting up this video, so it’s not truly “just because” music. Listening to it, I realized that it perfectly illustrates my point about social and economic mobility in America — which is why “income inequality” should be a non-issue:
Continue readingOver at JustOneMinute, Tom Maguire explains just how weak the Democrat spin is when it comes to celebrating the end of “job lock.” It’s a great post, but as quite often happens over at my blog, the real brilliance appears in the reader comments. From Ignatz: I believe the Republican
Continue readingWhen the CBO announced that Obamacare was going to have a deleterious impact on jobs over the next few years (as in 2.5 million fewer people in the work force), those opposed to Obamacare not unnaturally glommed on to those numbers as proof that Obamacare is an economic disaster. After
Continue readingYou and I already know that rent control means fewer and worse housing options for the poor and middle class, but this is such a nice, clear video, I couldn’t resist sharing it anyway:
Continue readingFor Barack Obama, Nelson Mandela’s death came like manna from heaven. After all, until Mandela’s passing sucked all the oxygen out of any other news stories, the headlines, even from Obama’s staunchest cheerleaders, were about Obamacare. The cheerleaders printed stories bravely admitting that the exchange is still bedeviled with problems,
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