Vaccine shortage outrage
TweetThe local and national media are full of stories about the massive H1N1 vaccine shortage and canceled vaccination clinics. But I haven't seen any finger-pointing or even serious inquiries into why...
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More and more bureaucrats earning more and more
TweetLast Sunday, on ABC's This Week, in an interview with Baba Wawa, Scott Brown called for a freeze on federal hiring and federal pay raises (something he'd advocated before on the campaign trail):...
View ArticleBoredom kills
TweetYou've heard the expression "bored to death," right? Well, apparently it's not just a figure of speech. According to Asian News International, it really does happen: Melbourne, Feb 8 (ANI):...
View ArticleRestoring fiscal sanity in New Jersey
TweetNewly elected New Jersey Governor Chris Christie addressed the legislature last week on the state's budget crisis, and I finally got around to reading the speech*. Wow. It's a humdinger —...
View ArticleDems want fundamental change at any price
TweetA few days ago, I saw Bob Beckel argue that if the Republicans really believed that passing ObamaCare will be a disaster for the Democratic Party, they'd lay off a bit and let it pass to assure...
View ArticleWhy voters are rejecting ObamaCare
TweetIn Tuesday's Wall Street Journal, Scott Rasmussen (president of Rasmussen Reports) and Doug Schoen (pollster for President Clinton) examined the polling numbers on ObamaCare. They noted that the...
View ArticleObamaCare will create jobs
TweetThe inimitable Mark Steyn (emphasis added): Last Thursday, the California Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board voted to set up a committee to examine whether condoms should be required...
View ArticleThe Cartel premiering in multiple cities
TweetThe Cartel, a feature-length documentary about the failures of the public school system and attempts to reform it, is premiering in Boston, Chicago, Minneapolis, San Francisco, Washington DC,...
View ArticleAnother boot on another neck
TweetThe Democrats have reconciled House and Senate financial legislation differences, crafting yet another 2000-page bill that no one has read. They're prepared to pass it next week: After more than...
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Circumventing the ban on incandescent bulbs
TweetHuman ingenuity is a wondrous thing. With an opportunity for profit as a motivator, human ingenuity can find a way to overcome the best efforts of bureaucrats to stifle, regulate, control, and...
View ArticleThe power of the technician
TweetDaniel H. Fernald thinks TSA administrator John Pistole's response to the growing "Don't touch my junk" movement is a symptom of a problem that won't be solved by defeating Obama in 2012. It's...
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Shovel-ready capes
TweetIn the immortal words of Dave Barry, I am not making this up. Workforce Central Florida is helping out the unemployed in the Orlando area by offering them superhero capes: The region's federally...
View ArticleBad jobs needed
TweetWalter Russell Mead thinks the inner city today faces three key problems, and one of them is lack of jobs. But it's not more good jobs our large cities need, according to Mead, it's more...
View ArticleStop the TSA power grab
TweetThat TSA story I just posted about reminded me of something David Aitken linked to that I meant to pass on. The TSA advertises for security screeners on pizza boxes and gas pumps. The people it...
View ArticleIn Florida, shear regulatory madness
TweetSince the militarization of police forces began, there have been many instances of outrageous police overreach, and Mark Steyn has documented a number of them. His latest example may have you...
View ArticleCastle Rock, CO, refuses federal funds
TweetThree cheers for Castle Rock, CO (population 55,000), located about 30 miles south of Denver. Its Town Council is refusing federal funds from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)...
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