Jobless claims jump, productivity soars | Financial News | Yahoo! Finance
In light of the remarkable string of bad news that has emanated from the American economic system for the past three years, one wonders who on earth found the sudden increase in unemployment “unexpected”. When every major economic indicator has been heading down for over two [...]
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American Prestige
Posted in Politics on Aug 19th, 2008
Tom Toles’ genius is scarcely doubted by anyone anymore. One only wishes that his cartoons did not constitute such eerily accurate portraiture of the United States and its political system. In that vein, it is hard to refute the fact that in the aftermath of the Cold War, Russia has just scored a significant victory.
Sign of Intelligent Life
Posted in Politics on Aug 11th, 2008
Sighted at the Ventura County Fair was this remarkable display of enthusiasm for the (arguably) most conservative of movements in the American political system. Granted, the Obama table was hardly more active, but it was comforting to see that the warped idealists who go by the moniker of Libertarian are finally getting their just desserts. People [...]
AIDS, Homelessness, Valor and Cowardice
Posted in Musings, Politics, Primordial Soup on Jul 29th, 2008
U.S. Reports Drop in Homeless Population | NYTimes.com
The evil liberal media dominators at the New York Times report on a Bush initiative that has had an apparently remarkable impact on the chronically homeless in the United States. What is especially surprising is that all sides of the issue seem to be in agreement that the [...]
The Economic Oracles Speak
Posted in Business, Political Prognostication, Politics, Primordial Soup on Jul 16th, 2008
BBC NEWS | Business | US economy at a glance
Perhaps the only thing gloomier than this picture is the fact that no American news source can be bothered by the simple process of consulting publicly available data from the government. The Brits seem to have grasped the utility of the internet browser better than American [...]
Obama’s Vice Presidential Candidate
Posted in Political Prognostication, Politics on Jun 18th, 2008
Let’s have some fun. I tend to be right on these matters, so I might as well publish these predictions and see how I fare against the “professionals”.
Barack Obama will choose either Bill Richardson or Wesley Clark as his running mate because both men are without peer in their respective fields. Richardson is peerless in [...]
IP Addresses Are Personal Data, E.U. Regulator Says | washingtonpost.com
The diametrically opposed directions that the European Community and the United States are taking ought to be extremely disconcerting to those who reside in the United States. The United States, the country that invented the internet and the addressing protocol that identifies computers on the internet [...]
War Politicization Begins
Posted in Political Prognostication, Politics on May 19th, 2008
Pentagon announces Iraq, Afghanistan troop deployments | Yahoo! News
The animosity between George W Bush and John McCain is insufficient to moderate the latter’s desire for power. Consequently, the former is conveniently building up troops in Iraq in order to aid McCain’s already lackluster campaign. The strategy is quite clear, and it will most likely become [...]
ABC News: Florida Calls Evolution ‘Scientific Theory’
Does this mean that Floridians now view Barrack Obama differently? Does it mean that they intend to end the disenfranchisement of minorities?
It is somewhat comforting to note that people change over time.
Posted in Politics on Feb 18th, 2008
What else can be said of Mike Luckovich other that he is a comic genius.
Signe Wilkinson seems to be following in his footsteps.
Politicians as Locusts
Posted in Politics on Jan 4th, 2008
Mike Lukovich is the finest political cartoonist working today. I can’t stop laughing.Today’s effort by Glenn McCoy was not so bad, either.
Bad Hollywood Script or Texas Politics?
Posted in Politics on Jan 3rd, 2008
Under Pressure, Prosecutor in Texas Won’t Run Again | New York Times
The following quote from the beleaguered Texas prosecutor proves that Texas politics has earned every bit of mockery that it has received.
Mr. Rosenthal has sought to keep the e-mail messages sealed, citing “zones of privacy” carved out by the United States Supreme Court in [...]
The Economics of Health Care
Posted in Politics on Dec 16th, 2007
I Am Not a Health Reform | New York Times
The most bizarre aspect of the current American “debate” on health care reform is the fact that the only people who talk about the economics of health care are the “liberals”. In this opinion piece, two Harvard researchers emphasize the horrific waste that characterizes the current [...]
Crime and the Punishment of Municipalities
Posted in Politics, Primordial Soup, Science on Nov 18th, 2007
Detroit declared most dangerous US city | Yahoo! News
The American obsession with rankings and the “competition” that rankings are believed to spur is so fervent, so strong and so overwhelming that any ranking–no matter how unscientific, how thoroughly biased or how flawed–is bound to get press. The college football and basketball rankings, the US News [...]
Battle Fatigue
Posted in Politics on Nov 7th, 2007
2007 Toll A Record For U.S. In Iraq | washingtonpost.com
The statistics in this article are encouraging, but hardly indicative of any comfortable end to hostilities in Iraq. What Lt. Col Dale Kuehl says of the cost at which the current scenario has been achieved expresses the fundamental problem of cost that nobody wishes to address.
“I [...]
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