President Obama announced earlier this evening that he’d come to a deal on extending much of the current tax structure for two years. The deal reportedly includes: The current tax rates for all income levels are extended for two years. The payroll tax is cut by 2 percent for 2011. Unemployment insurance benefits will continue […]
Via Reason magazine’s “hit & run” blog comes yet more evidence that California politicians must expect to be getting a bailout from the feds. California's high speed rail project could be shaping up as the awesomest catastrogeddon of 2011. The California High Speed Rail Authority is committed to breaking ground on a leg of the […]
A few quick things that may interest you from the past week: MSNBC’s Contessa Brewer likens Don’t Ask-Don’t Tell to Jim Crow laws. There’s certainly a case to be made for repeal (though I think the current system works well), but Brewer doesn’t make it. If she really thinks repeal will cause no problems, then […]
If you think little changes can solve this, your name is Paul Krugman. In other economic news: “Surprisingly,” the unemployment rate climbs to 9.8 percent and if the tax cuts aren’t extended before the lame duck session ends, expect the market to tank.
Really deep. President Obama? He’s a blue dog Democrat. Methinks that term doesn’t mean what he thinks it means.
I would normally respond to this in the comments, but I think this is a probably a good opportunity to lay out where I stand on freedom of the press vs. national security. First, John’s comment: Thank you Mr. Freedom of the Press. Can we also shut down the NYT website? Not many people are […]
A couple of points on the latest round of Wikileaks disclosures: PFC Bradley Manning is apparently the source of most, if not all, of the material Wikileaks has published – including documents on the Iraq and Afghanistan wars that has endangered the lives of civilians who’ve helped U.S. and NATO troops in those countries. Manning […]
Max Boot comments on the latest Wikileaks document dump over at Commentary Magazine’s “Contentions” blog and questions the American media’s patriotism – specifically The New York Times – when it comes to aiding and abetting serious damage to U.S. national security. There was a time when editors and reporters thought of themselves as citizens first […]
Holding those in power accountable is no longer the exclusive domain of the media, whistleblowers or inspectors general. Via The Atlantic magazine’s saner blogger, comes this surveillance video of a woman apparently getting some passive-aggressive harassment at the hands of some TSA officials in Phoenix. If the video is what it purports to be, there […]
While updating the site, I ended up testing the link to Hoystory’s Kindle page and discovered that Fred Coulter had uploaded some screenshots he took 9 months ago from his kindle. That’s right. Hoystory at #3. Followed by The New York Times at #7.