As part of a semi-off-topic discussion of the current unemployment problem on an earlier thread, one commentor brought up an issue I have been wondering about: 1) All of those eager beaver foreign engineering students? Dollar to a doughnut, most of those students have their education being paid for by their governments. This is more …
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Wiki-Leaks on the Banksters
The attention-catching part is where Forbes reporter Andy Greenberg proclaims that “WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange Wants To Spill Your Corporate Secrets“: Early next year, Julian Assange says, a major American bank will suddenly find itself turned inside out. Tens of thousands of its internal documents will be exposed on Wikileaks.org with no polite requests for executives’ …
When Norm Coleman’s Telling You to Go Home…
The Washington Post informs us that “Despite Alaska Senate race results, Joe Miller presses on in principle“: … Never mind that the incumbent, Sen. Lisa Murkowski ( R ), has already declared that she made history by mounting the first successful write-in campaign for Senate in more than 50 years. Or that the Alaska Republican …
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OK. Now I’m Thankful.
There is some justice in the world. A jury of his peers has found Tom Delay guilty of money laundering. That turkey (and those pomegranate cosmopolitans) are going to taste extra sweet tomorrow. __ Image: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, “The Laundress,” between 1884-8
Is our political system broken?
There’s a reasonably — but only reasonably — interesting debate about this question at the Economist. I don’t find any of the arguments especially convincing but I’m glad that people are openly asking this question in a conservative magazine. Personally, I would argue that that the Republican party and the permanent government (think tanks, media …
The Notarization Bill Might Be Back
According to ZeroHedge (thanks to commenter BR), the House may consider over-riding Obama’s veto of the Interstate Recognition of Notarizations Act. 4Closurefraud says the vote is on. This is not surprising, as it was widely reported that there was a MERS whitewash bill in the works. But only dirty hippies would suggest this is a …
Paging Howard Hughes
David Frum says rich people are never weirdos (and earns a hearty heh-indeed from you know who): If we had a system whereby a wealthy person could give $1 million to the RNC or DNC, which then distributed the money among the most electable candidates, we’d accomplish two things: we’d liberate candidates from spending so …