The Other McCain

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

Rachel Maddow and the Politics of Stupid

Why hasn’t the American public completely repudiated the policies of the Obama administration? At a time when the unemployment rate has been hovering near 10 percent for nearly a year, Obama’s job approval numbers are very near dead even, and Republicans are just barely leading on the generic ballot. Why isn’t the administration’s abject failure on economic issues more […]

The Roberts Court Will No Doubt Give The 6th Month Drilling Moratorium A Good Listen

by Smitty Mighty Michelle Malkin echo’s Yahoo’s report that the 5th Circuit told the White House to talk to the hand on the ban. She also notes: . . .it’s reportedly too late for some companies that are already moving rigs and workers overseas for projects. Really, if the Administration can’t just decapitate the Gulf […]

Which Is Better for the Economy: Getting a Job or Collecting Unemployment?

When Nancy Pelosi declared that unemployment compensation “creates jobs faster than almost any other initiative you can name,” most people laughed at this obvious affront to common sense. Yet considering that common sense doesn’t seem to be all that common — Nancy Pelosi is, after all, Speaker of the House — it’s nice to have someone explain […]

‘Aggregate Demand! Aggregate Demand!’

“I cry out to boost aggregate demand — by banking policy, by monetary policy, by fiscal policy, by spending increases, by tax cuts, by anything — I don’t care what!” — Brad DeLong The stimulus wasn’t big enough! That’s the sum of DeLong’s argument, which is frustrating to read because, on the one hand, DeLong […]

Shorter New York Times

PROFITS BAD! Making matters worse, businesses are already plowing fewer profits back into their own enterprises. Over the past decade and a half, corporations have been saving more and investing less in their own businesses. . . . The reason for all this saving in the United States is that public companies have become obsessed […]

Worst Side Effect of Recession? Endless Plague of Perpetual Grad Students

OK, this is a pet peeve of mine from way back. When I was in college in the late ’70s and early ’80s, there was a distinct group of hippie leftovers who hung around the campus pub a lot while, supposedly, working on their master’s degrees. They didn’t seem particularly smart or studious. Rather, they struck me as having fallen in love with the […]

Democrat Stimulus Drum Corps

The Dow Jones Industrial Average is down more than 700 points since June 21, having lost more than 1,500 points (13.6%) from its late April peak at 11,205. The Dow closed Friday below 9,700 — a level not seen since early October 2009 — and talk of a “double-dip recession” is now far more common than […]

Jimmie Bise Jr. Explains Why Economic Freedom Makes America Great

“Now, those of us who get the origin of wealth understand that prosperity only happens when people own the fruits of their labor. The principle that what you produce belongs to you and you have the absolute right to dispose of it as you wish is the cornerstone of all the wealth and wonders created […]

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