The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

Breaking News: MSNBC’s Ed Schultz Is Still an Angry, Dishonest Partisan Liar

The important background facts you should know about Ed Schultz: He was a sportscaster until he was 38 and began his talk-radio career attempting to be a conservative Rush Limbaugh imitator, failed at that and then re-invented himself as a “progressive” host, which provided the platform by which Ed got an MSNBC show in 2009. […]

The Perverse Incentives and Unintended Consequences of ObamaCare, Continued

The road to Hell is paved by liberal Democrats: An upstate New York grocery chain that had been praised for offering health insurance to its part-time employees will eliminate those benefits as a result of the federal health-care law passed in 2010. “Several Wegmans employees confirmed part-time health benefits had been cut and said the […]

‘Honey, I Blew $200 Million’

Halsey Minor and his second wife, Shannon, in 2008 CNET founder Halsey Minor files for bankruptcy — Los Angeles Times CNET Founder Halsey Minor Bankrupt 5 Years After Firm’s $1.8 Billion Sale — Daily Finance How Halsey Minor Blew Tech Fortune on Way to Bankruptcy — Bloomberg Famous Tech Entrepreneur Halsey Minor Declares Bankruptcy — […]

Why I’m Not on the Harvard Faculty

Besides the fact that all I’ve got is a bachelor’s degree from a third-tier state university, there’s also the problem that I don’t think it’s necessary to apologize for saying bad things about dead bisexual British economists, which is now apparently taboo. You can badmouth dead people or defame the British or libel an economist […]

Economics, Translated to Plain English

The eminent James Pethokoukis gives you the technocratic jargon: US job growth in April beat economist expectations as nonfarm payrolls rose 165,000, and the jobless rate fell to a four-year low of 7.5%. But the report contained worrisome signs that President Obama’s health care reform law is hurting full-time, high-wage employment. While the American economy added 293,000 […]

‘Billions and Billions and Billions’: Biden Has No Comment on Fisker Failure

“This is seed money that will return back to the American consumer in billions and billions and billions of dollars of good new jobs.” — Joe Biden, Oct. 27, 2009 “With the help of UAW lobbying efforts for advanced vehicle manufacturing and federal dollars, the plant will become a production facility for Fisker Automotive, a […]

Gold Price Jumps — Unexpectedly! — as Cyprus Tries to Halt Capital Flight

Nothing like a debt crisis to spur a run on security, and gold prices — which had lost more than 200 points off the October peak of $1,794 an ounce — have spiked up about $30 in March, as Cyprus has become the latest tip of the Euro-debt iceberg to break the surface. Yesterday, the […]

The 1% Progressive Bloggers Club and the Bourgeois Dialectic of Comrade Yglesias

Friend of the proletariat Matthew Yglesias (Photo: Matt Roth) The news that left-wing blogger employee of Slate magazine Matthew Yglesias has purchased a $1.2-million townhouse in D.C.’s Logan Circle neighborhood has produced much chortling. Yglesias, after all, mocked property rights as the “myth of ownership.” Andy at AOSHQ says: So, party at Matty’s this weekend? I mean, […]

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