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Higher Education Bubble, IYKWIMAITYD

If Glenn Reynolds hasn’t linked this yet, it’s only a matter of time: As the cost of college skyrockets, and students and recent graduates get buried under “piles of student debt and a job-scarce, lackluster economy,” more and more of them are turning to “sugar daddies,” says Amanda Fairbanks at The Huffington Post. Sites like […]

Dow Drops 266 Points, Both Sides Race to Claim Defeat in Debt-Deal Compromise

Who didn’t see this coming? For months we were warned that financial catastrophe would ensue unless Congress raised the debt ceiling. So Congress raised the debt ceiling and . . . financial catastrophe: Stocks plunge as economic concerns grow Associated Press NEW YORK — A sell-off is erasing all of the year’s gains in the […]

Jonah Goldberg, in Fine Form

Worked up into a long-overdue rant: Tom Friedman — who knows a bit about Hezbollah — calls the tea partiers the “Hezbollah faction” of the GOP bent on taking the country on a “suicide mission.” All over the place, conservative Republicans are “hostage takers” and “terrorists,” “terrorists” and “traitors.” They want to “end life as […]

Give An Over-Reaching Government A Sales Tax: What Could Go Wrong?

by Smitty Ace toys with the notion of a national sales tax. Let’s put it like this. Once upon a time, a certain uncle had too much crap. He had houses, boats, cars, furniture, businesses, sweethearts, the works. Managing all the crap was a significant burden, with all of the insurance, maintenance, travel time, licensing, […]

An Obama Lexicon

For those who are not yet fluent in Obama-ese: compromise – (1) verb – [when applied to Republicans] to surrender; (2) verb – [when applied to Democrats] to pretend to negotiate lead – verb – to provide a plan plan – (1) noun – teleprompted platitudes unencumbered by specific goals or means of execution; (2) […]

Jimmie Bise, Sax Machine At Large

by Smitty Coaxed a photo of Jimmie sporting the brass while on Twitter last night: Also, Mr. Bise is a blogger of no mean repute. But you probably already knew that. Did I mention that his podcast also rocks hard? Truly a superior blogger, that Bise.

July 2011: Best. Month. EVAH!

Many people deserve credit for pushing TheOtherMcCain.com to an all-time traffic high in July. We’ll finish the month with something like 340,000 visits and 450,000 page-views. And this was the month when we cleared the 7-million mark. So thanks to faithful sidekick Smitty — and also Smitty’s wife, who brought forth baby Niklas this month, […]

Lubricating the Debt-Ceiling Deal

The negotiations continue in Washington. It’s OK with Harry Reid and one liberal sees it as an “unprecedented political victory” for the GOP. Ri-iiiiiight. That Mr. G Guy offers a suggestion for how conservatives can make their end of the bargain slightly less painful. However, he misses a lucrative opportunity to monetize this occasion. Perhaps […]

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