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- 12 May 2008
- 12:07pm EDT
- Politics
- This post contains political opinions. Reader discretion is advised.
fifty-seven, count 'em, fifty-seven
When Bush says it, he’s stupid. When Hillary says it, she’s being devious. When Obama says it, he’s joking. Or sleepy. Or being too deep for you to understand, because he is the Messiah, and you are not.
Add a few more states arbitrarily? Yes we can!
(h/t Hotline On Call)
- 9 May 2008
- 7:49pm EDT
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Or, “evil father invokes Godwin’s Law”. Ugh.
- 7 May 2008
- 7:41pm EDT
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As Lifehacker puts it, “MTV, but with music you like.”
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Photos of people watching an opera, complete with awesome shading. (via Kottke)
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Neat, except for the driving hazard that would naturally result from having to scroll up on your little wristlet device. But, hey, anything for the original hipster GPS.
about those tax cuts for the rich.
Note to Demo-gogues: capital gains taxes are not just something discussed by hedonistic billionaires, twirling their Snively Whiplash moustaches while lighting their cigars with the flaming corpses of impoverished children.
Indeed, Mr. Obama should reconsider his belief that capital gains are mostly the province of the wealthy. Millions of middle-class Americans do in fact realize investment gains annually. In 2005, according to IRS data, 47% of all tax returns reporting capital gains were from households with incomes below $50,000, and 79% came from households with incomes below $100,000.
Populism seems to hurt pretty much everyone except for politicians.
- 6 May 2008
- 7:48pm EDT
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PA state troopers arrest an Amish man for selling raw milk without a license, and for transporting it across state lines. A regular unpasteurized terrorist, this one. If these dairy fundamentalists are not stopped, there could be udder chaos!
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People who are dyslexic in one language might not be in another.
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The Indian government’s universal education program ends up in fraud and corruption. But if we keep throwing money at it, magical bureaucracy fairies will suddenly cause rainbows and sunshine to fly out of HRD ministry arses. Still think that 6% of GDP
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Eminent Mid-East scholar Bernard Lewis launches ASMEA, a rival to his old organization, MESA, when the latter swerves off the road of academia and into the swamps of polemic.
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Kraft had to change the sugar content, form, and packaging of Oreos before they caught on in China.
- 2 May 2008
- 7:39pm EDT
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It’s official: everything that is uttered by someone born west of Jerusalem is imperial. Even if it’s true, and even if the speaker is brown.
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“Social conservatives fret that too many immigrants will have America slouching toward Guatemala. The bigger concern is that too few immigrants will have us slouching toward France.”
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Okay, so you have to import cheerleaders in India. I accept that. But the REDSKINS? Why not just bring in the Hoggettes?
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Dems destroy student loan market, and then ask the feds to clean up the mess. I want THAT party to manage my economy!
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I suppose this makes the esteemed economist an “imperialist” now, as he’s not condemning the proletariat to a few more decades of poverty.