Maddow About the Damned Dam? - Arthur Herman - National Review Online

Maddow About the Damned Dam? - Arthur Herman - National Review Online

 

Those little things like facts always seem to get in libs way.

Maddow About the Damned Dam?
Big projects are best built by big business, not Washington.

Hoover Dam has become something of a liberal icon these days. President Obama points to it as an example of the sort of federally funded projects that once “unleashed all the potential in this country” — potential that his next round of stimulus will unleash again. MSNBC commentator Rachel Maddow has pointed to the 726-foot-high, 660-foot-wide dam as proof that some projects are just too big for private enterprise. “You can’t be the guy that built this,” she tells the TV screen. Only government can, is the implication.

Shelby Steele: Obama and the Burden of Exceptionalism - WSJ.com

Amen!!!

Shelby Steele: Obama and the Burden of Exceptionalism - WSJ.com

Post-'60s liberals, with the president as their standard bearer, seek to make a virtue of decline.

• By SHELBY STEELE

If I've heard it once, I've heard it a hundred times: President Obama is destroying the country. Some say this destructiveness is intended; most say it is inadvertent, an outgrowth of inexperience, ideological wrong-headedness and an oddly undefined character. Indeed, on the matter of Mr. Obama's character, today's left now sounds like the right of three years ago. They have begun to see through the man and are surprised at how little is there.

US Inflation Rate: Inflation Using Volcker-Era Methodology Nearing 10% - CNBC

Once again, the devil is always in the details.

 

US Inflation Rate: Inflation Using Volcker-Era Methodology Nearing 10% - CNBC

Published: Tuesday, 12 Apr 2011 | 5:18 PM ET

After former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker was appointed in 1979, the consumer price index surged into the double digits, causing the now revered Fed Chief to double the benchmark interest rate in order to break the back of inflation. Using the methodology in place at that time puts the CPI back near those levels.

Inflation, using the reporting methodologies in place before 1980, hit an annual rate of 9.6 percent in February, according to the Shadow Government Statistics newsletter.

20 Days of Left-Wing Thuggery in Wisconsin: When Will Obama, Democrats, and MSM Call for Civility? - Big Government

For the Democrats of Wisconsin, “This is what Democracy looks like!!!”

20 Days of Left-Wing Thuggery in Wisconsin: When Will Obama, Democrats, and MSM Call for Civility?

by John Nolte

Below, you’ll find a compilation of 20 days worth of the death threats, vandalism, and intimidation practiced by pro-union thugs opposed to Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s budget repair bill. Wisconsin is my home state.

Dayton's News Source :: Top Stories - Civil Service Board Announces Police Recruit Scores

So, how do you find more blacks that can pass a civil service test?  Low “passing” to a grade equivalent to an “F” or a “D”.  Sweet!!  So says Eric Holder and the Big “O”.

 

Dayton's News Source :: Top Stories - Civil Service Board Announces Police Recruit Scores

DAYTON -- The Dayton Police Department is lowering its testing standards for recruits.
It's a move required by the U.S. Department of Justice after it says not enough African-Americans passed the exam.    
Dayton is in desperate need of officers to replace dozens of retirees.  The hiring process was postponed for months because the D.O.J. rejected the original scores provided by the Dayton Civil Service Board, which administers the test. 
Under the previous requirements, candidates had to get a 66% on part one of the exam and a 72% on part two.
The D.O.J. approved new scoring policy only requires potential police officers to get a 58% and a 63%.  That's the equivalent of an ‘F’ and a ‘D’

Pimco’s Gross Eliminates Government Debt From Total Return Fund - Bloomberg

Read the headline very slowly – the world’s LARGEST bond company is DUMPING US debt.  First step towards the fire exit!

 

Pimco’s Gross Eliminates Government Debt From Total Return Fund - Bloomberg

By Susanne Walker - Mar 9, 2011 1:09 PM CT

Pacific Investment Management Co.'s Bill Gross. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg

Bill Gross, who runs the world’s biggest bond fund at Pacific Investment Management Co., eliminated government-related debt from his flagship fund last month as the U.S. projected record budget deficits.

iowahawk: Longhorns 17, Badgers 1

Interesting stats – Wisconsin (union) vs. Texas (non-union).  Worth your time just to see how things work out when data is treated in an honest, forthright manner.

 

iowahawk: Longhorns 17, Badgers 1

Please pardon this brief departure from my normal folderol, but every so often a member of the chattering class issues a nugget of stupidity so egregious that no amount of mockery will suffice. Particularly when the issuer of said stupidity holds a Nobel Prize.

As The Saudi Tanks Roll To Bahrain | RedState

Yes, absolutely true.  We are about to pay a terrible price in the energy sector, which will most certainly spill across our economic landscape.

 

As The Saudi Tanks Roll To Bahrain | RedState

Sadly, President Obama, is worse than evil. He suffers from the Peter Principal and Peter Pan Syndrome in vicious synonymy. He has neither the professional experience in national policy, nor the intellectual honesty to deal in fairness with adverse facts. Data that contraindicates his ideological fantasies that command and control economics can work simply doesn’t exist in his magical world. In Obamaland, political oratory marks the very day on which the levels of the oceans begin to recede.

Financial terrorism suspected in 2008 economic crash - Washington Times

Why is this just news now??  This was talked about quite a bit in early October 2008.  It had to do with a targeted run on “money markets” and then was simply squelched.  It always seemed like the Bush administration knew more but thought it was too risky to tell the common folk.

A few links:

””Money Market Run” – 9/17/2008

”Run Ends on Money Market Funds” – 9/29/2008

”How the World Almost Came to an End on 9/18/2008” – 2/8/2009

There are more, but this was no surprise to the old or new administration.

 

Financial terrorism suspected in 2008 economic crash - Washington Times

Pentagon study sees element

By Bill Gertz

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The Washington Times

8:54 p.m., Monday, February 28, 2011

Evidence outlined in a Pentagon contractor report suggests that financial subversion carried out by unknown parties, such as terrorists or hostile nations, contributed to the 2008 economic crash by covertly using vulnerabilities in the U.S. financial system.

YouTube - Democrats Applauding Their Own Obstructionism

Democrats have had a real fondness for hammering Bush on the deficit.  It’s getting harder, especially since the Obama administration will have added 4.5 TRILLION to it by the end of FY2011.  However, Bush actively tried to trim back expectations of what a government can do and to present realistic arguments on the future of Social Security in particular. I have been looking for this particular piece of video for a bit.  Notice the reaction of the Democrats to his chastising them for their defeat of his proposed Social Security reforms.  Yet today, his words ring true as the “trust fund” is in deficit and all Social Security spending is via direct tax collection and borrowing, a mere 5-years into the baby boom bubble.

Wind Energy, Renewable Energy [Michigan Capitol Confidential]

Wind power, that’s what we need more wind power!! 

 

Wind Energy, Renewable Energy [Michigan Capitol Confidential]

By Jack McHugh | Feb. 9, 2011

A recent article in Slate by Robert Bryce describes how Texas has more wind generator capacity than any other state — around 9,700 megawatts. But last August, when state electricity demand set a one-day record of 63,494 megawatts, all those windmills contributed just 500 megawatts, or about 5 percent of their rated capacity.

Mexico's Gun Supply and the 90 Percent Myth | STRATFOR

Facts pertaining to the MYTH!

 

Mexico's Gun Supply and the 90 Percent Myth | STRATFOR

February 10, 2011 | 0951 GMT

By Scott Stewart

For several years now, STRATFOR has been closely watching developments in Mexico that relate to what we consider the three wars being waged there. Those three wars are the war between the various drug cartels, the war between the government and the cartels, and the war being waged against citizens and businesses by criminals.