party politics

Government hires protestors to demand more government

Powerline found an interesting job advertisement in Craigslist: Under the job category “new york craigslist > brooklyn > jobs > government jobs”, people looking for a government job are invited to: “ FIGHT TO HOLD WALL STREET ACCOUNTABLE NOW! MAKE A DIFFERENCE! GET PAID!” I knew they were getting paid to protest, but until now there was some deniability – students were being turned out to protest by their professors, employees …

politics

Herman Cain wrote his own book

Often when a politician campaigns for an important post, he promotes a book about his life. And almost always that book is ghost written. I compared the partial transcripts of his interview with O’Donnell, with an extract from the book discussed by O’Donnell. They are similar in style. Likely the book was edited by a white editor, because most English language books are edited by a white editor, but if …

politics

Progressives are not commies.

Commies propose the government run everything by a central plan. Progressives propose the government run everything with no plan at all. Commies believe that underdevelopment is a sin committed by wealthy capitalists against poor people, and propose to fix this by commanding stuff to be developed. Progressives believe that development is a sin committed by wealthy capitalists against Gaea and the trees, and propose to fix this by prohibiting stuff …

politics

Repression

A conservative blog by an anonymous right wing academic announced that it had been suppressed, shortly after he was outed. And then, predictably, the announcement of censorship was itself censored.

economics

Herman Cain: Not the affirmative action candidate

Because Herman Cain has black accent, and tends to use simple sentences to express himself, while Barack Hussein Obama has a ruling class accent, I initially got the impression that Obama was smarter.  I should have known better. Herman Cain will answer tricky questions extempore.  No teleprompter for him.  Who then is smarter?   He has lots of facts at his fingertips.   If someone expresses himself simply, it is apt to …