Palin described “America’s Affordable Health Choices Act” as death panels. The Cathedral, (meaning the MSM, the politicians, the professoriat, senior public servants, and assorted people employed in the upper reaches of the ever more numerous quasi governmental organizations) react with apocalyptic outrage – thereby drawing the public’s attention to various parts of the act that are, indeed, death panels. Sarah Palin smiles sweetly and lets them hammer themselves to pulp. …
Category: politics
Denying Darwinism
There is on the blogs a lot of debate as to when the idea of common descent and the tree of life originated – “genetic futureâ€, as usual, gets it correct, “Panda’s Thumb†gets it correct, and “genetic inferenceâ€and “evolving thoughts†as always, get it politically correct. From any political post of “genetic inference†and “evolving thoughts†you can deduce that they will lie about Darwin, and conversely from the …
Purple shirts:
Hotair thinks this will rebound against the Obama, but history tells us otherwise. People love the strong horse, and despise the weak horse, and beating people up looks very much like strength if you can get away with it.
Off budget deficit
Long ago, the government found a new way to run a deficit:Â Create a nominally private business with government appointed management, to carry out a government directed mission.Â
“We may be seeing the beginning of the end of the recessionâ€
My prediction is for high unemployment, high inflation, or both.
You are probably a federal felon
There are a lot of laws, indeed they are growing so fast that not only can they not be read by legislators, but with in creasing frequency not even printed, existing only in electronic form, no longer practical to commit to paper. Further, many of these laws are deliberately overbroad for the convenience of prosecutors Thus for example Krister Evertson was convicted of abandoning hazardous waste – notwithstanding the fact …
One more crazy murderous totalitarian pal of Obama’s
I conjecture that Obama, and Obama’s science czar, is enabled by people like Larry Summers, who can find no end of rationalizations along the lines that Reverend Wright and John Holdren are moderate reformers who want reasonable and moderate changes in our lifestyles, not withstanding the fact that these guys are screaming their heads off that they are fanatics who want to totally smash our way of life. Coalition building is a lot easier if you maintain total delusion about your allies.
Speaking power to truth
If an economist wants to get places, he had best tell politicians and bureaucrats what they want to hear. The danger is that if says it often enough, he will himself come to believe it. Larry Summers is an economist. When Bush was in power, he believed in Bushonomics, which got him into trouble in an academic environment of rigid, mindless, and unthinking left wing orthodoxy. Now, however, it seems …
The universal government white paper:
In short, the white paper tells us: Politicians are of course entirely lily white and innocent, except that the other party allowed bad people in the private sector to do bad things. Some regulatory agencies failed to do enough. Solving the problem requires more power to the government. Those regulatory agencies that failed the worst, will get the largest increase in money and power.
Creating the next crisis:
In a free market, financiers who take stupid risks lose money, and cease to be financiers. The core of the Obama Bush interventions is to ensure that financiers who take stupid risks continue in business and continue in charge of other people’s money. In the Washington Post, Obama’s chief financial advisers explain their program: In theory, securitization should serve to reduce credit risk by spreading it more widely. But by …