One of Mitt Romney’s top advisers said Saturday that President Obama’s decision to bailout Chrysler and General Motors was actually Romney’s idea. “[Romney's] position on the bailout was exactly what President Obama followed. I know it infuriates them to hear that,” Eric Fehrnstrom, senior adviser to the Romney campaign, said. “The only economic success that [...]
Romney: Any Concern By Anyone For Income Inequality Is ‘About Envy’
LAUER: When you said that we already have a leader who divides us with the bitter politics of envy, I’m curious about the word ‘envy.’ Did you suggest that anyone who questions the policies and practices of Wall Street and financial institutions, anyone who has questions about the distribution of wealth and power in this [...]
The One Reason There is no Playoff System for College Football
http://www.chiff.com/recreation/sports/bowl-games.htm Who do you think would suffer with a smaller, more focused system? Who do you think it is that is paying these colleges so much to show up? Follow the money…which follows the eyeballs…and monthly subscription fees. – [spoiler: if my quick count is correct, 32 out of 36 games require paying [...]
IT’S WORKING INTERNET, RESISTANCE IS ESSENTIAL TO THE NETWORK!
Nintendo, Electronic Arts and Sony Electronics — some of the largest video game companies in the world — have all pulled their support for an online bill that could encourage censorship online, according to an updated list of supporters of the bill. Those three companies all supported the Stop Online Piracy Act SOPA when it [...]
This Week in the Police State…
First up…the Comitatas Posse is back in town, militarizing the homeland. WASHINGTON — The Senate voted Tuesday to keep a controversial provision to let the military detain terrorism suspects on U.S. soil and hold them indefinitely without trial — prompting White House officials to reissue a veto threat. The measure, part of the massive National [...]
After reading RPN, Republicans realize one politician’s “spending” is many thousands of people’s “jobs”
SPIN METER: GOP flips on job creation for defense http://m.cecilwhig.com/mobile/news/national_news/article_ec8924de-08b4-11e1-8970-001cc4c03286.html Consider the latest argument from Republicans on the House Armed Services Committee as lawmakers stare down at least $450 billion in cuts from projected defense spending over the next 10 years. Running for re-election, Rep. Howard “Buck” McKeon, R-Calif., said in February 2010 that the [...]
Why Romney will get the Republican nomination and lose handily to Obama
Video version here… Suffice it to say…the Republican primary pool is exceedingly shallow, and the President (who killed Osama bin Laden mind you) has a long track record of *at least trying*. While many partisan Republicans give him no credit for this, and blame Obama for Bush’s economic catastrophe, most people do not, and [...]
What do you do at the end of the game of Monopoly?
“cause that’s where we’re at, economically speaking. Here’s the charts… So, what are the protesters so upset about, really? Do they have legitimate gripes? To answer the latter question first, yes, they do. They have very legitimate gripes. And if America cannot figure out a way to address these gripes, the country will likely become increasingly “de-stabilized,” [...]
Smashing the Laffer Curve
This might very well be a long post (if not a series of posts turned into a quick book). The target of this post is something called the “Laffer Curve”. There’s a few different things this might refer to. Let me lay out a basic level of understanding of this concept now, straight from [...]
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