There's a reason it's called the "nanny" state (funny): http://snipr.com/6szcs # Trillion-dollar deficits are only Phase I; Phase II will be the revised forecasts for Social Security and Medicare: http://snipr.com/6szl3 # The dentist is one of very few people with an awesome power: The ability to stop me from talking. # Trial court judge rules [...]
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President-Elect Obama has pledged to "create" 2.5 million new jobs (at an apparent potential cost of $280,000 per job), by "rebuilding infrastructure" — roads and bridges and such. Maybe I was hallucinating, but didn't we all spend the past two years or so bitching and moaning about taxpayer money being used to build bridges? But [...]
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–Is it a proper function of the Transportation Security Administration to spend $1.3 million creating "Stephanie the airport screener"? –What fraction of Utah prison inmates are serving sentences for sex crimes? –Which nation is preparing to ban happy hour? –Who said the following? I want to ask you which would be more important: If all [...]
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Obama stimulus plan, as currently advertised, would cost $280,000 per job: http://snipr.com/6ngwj # Trial court ruling on Florida gay marriage ban expected tomorrow. One way or the other, expect appeals. http://snipr.com/6ni72 # No less stupid than the other proposed Detroit bail-out (funny): http://snipr.com/6nj2s # "it is not okay for me to enable anyone's bigotry with [...]
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What do they have in common? That's right — Both are scarce goods and must therefore be rationed: With about 55,000 requests for fewer than 400 tickets to Barack Obama's inauguration, Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin's staff says he has no choice but to dispense them in a random drawing. Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski, a fellow [...]
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There's a remarkably fierce — in a Kissingerian "university politics" sense — feud among some bloggers and columnists about just how much autoworkers are paid per hour. On the one hand there are what might be called the "top-down" group, chief among them Will Wilkinson, Mark J. Perry and Megan McArdle. They derive the infamous [...]
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Think the Mormons can raise $20 million to fight California gay marriage in 2010? And again in 2012? And again in… http://snipr.com/6hw4r # "The government would be there essentially to crack heads…" So what else is new? http://snipr.com/6i0p4 # I don't know whom to curse out more: the city or the billboard company: http://snipr.com/6jf0b # [...]
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Libertarians have been spending so much time recently debating whether there can really be such a thing as "left-libertarianism" that they may be forgetting to also ask whether there can really be such a thing as "right-libertarianism" — Judicial conservatism requires judges to justify their decisions with reference to several restraining principles, including deference to [...]
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Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
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Is it a proper function of government to "endorse" a business? Shouldn't such "endorsements" come from the market? http://snipr.com/6cxr1 # BTW, I am not liking the new Series 4 Doctor Who theme music. Not liking it at all. =( # Dear MSM: Routine sports scores are not "Top Stories." Not even for rugby. Especially not [...]
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