via: thefreemanonline.org If you got an email offering you the chance to invest in a business that would create new profitable industries, employ millions of people, reduce energy consumption without reducing quality of life, and improve environmental quality, would you be skeptical? And if the email went on to claim that the technologies to do [...]
Archive for January, 2010
6 Jan
About Those Tax Breaks
via: thefreemanonline.org Few things bug free-market economists as much as the attempts by local and state authorities to give tax breaks to certain firms in the name of “creating jobs.” This is not because we think that taxes are good or even believe that we need to have equality in spreading the misery, but rather [...]
6 Jan
Harry Reid On Public Option: Chooses “Opt-Out”
via: rightsoup.com Senate majority leader Harry Reid (D-NV) just concluded a press conference on the reworked Baucus health care bill, announcing that he’s backing a public option component with an “opt-out” provision for states. The public option will “ensure competition”, and Reid says it is what is “fair” and will “ensure competition”. There will also [...]
6 Jan
Shocker: No Conference Committee On Health Care Bill
And this should surprise us…why? I’ve been telling the Right Soup that the Democrats will stop at nothing to ram Obamacare through, and that they have zero interest in compromise…or common sense, for that matter. Today the news from the Hill is that Democrats are likely to forego the formal conference committee process for merging [...]
5 Jan
Frustrated? Concerned? Infuriated?
The two commentaries below will likely add to the frustration and anger you feel about how political correctness and the failure to properly identify and deal with our Islamist enemies has so much of Washington paralyzed. Indeed, you’ll probably hit the roof when you read below that a man charged with the robbery of a [...]
5 Jan
It’s Time for a Serious Course Correction
Contrary to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, we’re not fighting “man-caused disasters.” Contrary to President Obama, Christmas Day bomber Umar Abdulmutallab was not an “isolated extremist” and Ft. Hood shooter Nidal Hasan was a jihadist. One year after Obama launched his “outreach” to the Muslim world that was promised to make us safer, we are [...]
5 Jan
Midwest and Northeast Get Slammed by Cold Temps
via: thefreemanonline.org “Cold, windy weather enveloping the U.S. from the northern Plains to the East Coast may continue to break temperature records today.” (Bloomberg, Monday) We could all use a little global warming today. FEE Timely Classics: “Global Warming: Extreme Weather or Extreme Prejudice” by Christopher Lingle
5 Jan
Get Ready for The Census
via: thefreemanonline.org “The Census Bureau kicks off its $300 million campaign Monday to prod, coax and cajole the nation’s more than 300 million residents to fill out their once-a-decade census forms. The bureau will mail out the 10-question forms to about 120 million households in March.” (Washington Post, Monday) What will they ask us this [...]
5 Jan
Bernanke Says “Better” Regulation Key to Avoiding Crisis
via: thefreemanonline.org “Better regulation is the key to avoiding future financial excesses, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said Sunday, arguing that the Fed’s low-interest-rate policies early in the decade were not a major cause of the housing bubble.” (Washington Post, Monday) George Carlin on addiction: “Just cause you got the monkey off your back [...]
5 Jan
Muslim Condom Bomber Attacks America on Christmas Day
via: Heritage Muslim Condom Bomber Attacks America on Christmas Day By Doug Giles While the Thought Police want us to trip over ourselves trying not to offend poor, misunderstood Muslims in the classroom, the newsroom or on the battlefield, another one of their privileged and educated peace lovers, Umar Abdulmutallab, attempted to “bother” 289 [...]
