Saturday, February 11, 2012
McArdle on birth control backtrack
Megan McArdle sums up Obama's birth control flap. People are still mad about it.
Friday, February 10, 2012
Gasoline consumption is falling and that predicts a decline in economic activity
Why is gasoline consumption tanking? Retail gasoline deliveries are below 1980 levels and going south.
Obama the back tracker
Obama will backtrack on birth control rule that has created a firestorm among Catholic and other religious organizations.
Rand Paul blisters Obama
Rand Paul to Obama: "Do you hate all rich people, or just rich people who don't contribute to your campaign?" He also asked, "Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs?"
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Maybe I could get the federal government to pay my cell phone bill
Ann Althouse has this post: "Do you enjoy paying other people's cell phone bills?" A federal program spent $1.6 billion of your tax dollars to pay for free cell phones and the monthly bills of 12.5 million wireless accounts. I've wondered why everybody seems to be talking on a cell phone.
Well, you're going to be paying for somebody's mortgage and health care as well as cell phone.
Well, you're going to be paying for somebody's mortgage and health care as well as cell phone.
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio, Republican Senator from Florida, is a powerful conservative leader who will be president one day, and soon.
“Unlike any leader in modern American history, we are led today by a president that has decided to pit Americans against each other,” Rubio thundered. “The basic argument he is making to our nation is that the reason why some of us are worse off than we used to be is because other people are doing too well. That the only way for some of us to do better is for some people to do worse.”
The No Child Left Behind Law is being left behind
The No Child Left Behind law initiated under George Bush was intended to bring students up to par in reading and math, but it has been a failure, and now states are being let off the hook.
In Colorado, Bridget Cole, a 4th grade teacher who was eating an egg salad sandwich with a group of student on a field trip to the Colorado state Capitol, said she was relieved to hear the news out of the White House.
"No Child Left Behind never changed how I taught. I know what my kids need. It's easier for me to see where my kids need to be rather than pay attention to what the federal government tells me my kids need to be," Cole said.
Big government goes too far, again
Catholic official to Obama: Stop "intruding into the internal life of a church."
No fun on a LA county beach
Don't go on a LA county beach and throw a football or Frisbee. Or even let your kids dig a hole in the sand more than 18 inches deep. You'll get socked with a $1,000 file. My advice: Don't spend your vacation in California.
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