Barack Obama schooled all of us free-enterprise fanatics with "You didn't build that." We would have nothing -- nothing! I tell you -- without the ministrations of a benevolent and aggressive government. And for those of you who think the current darling of the Democratic Party would be less economicallty incomeptent than Obama, consider this:
An interesting observation, but one that I think strains the metaphor a little: How we 'won' in Vietnam, but are losing at home.
Awww, the fragile flowers; did their feelings get hurted?
Republican Senate candidate Joni Ernst skipped out on a scheduled meeting with The Des Moines Register on Thursday, prompting criticism from one of the paper's leading political columnists.
At slate.com, the "Dear Prudence" column gets a Halloween letter:
The more I think about this, the sillier and more trivial it seems:
The free ride will soon be over for low-speed scooters in Indiana.
Drivers of moped scooters with engines of 50 cubic centimeters or less will need to buy license plates and take a street sign test at the Bureau of Motor Vehicles beginning next year.
Huh. Apparently, you can call a terrorist a terrorist instead of "a suspect in an alleged incident of workplace violence."
Speaking for the first time since a gunman attacked parliament earlier today, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper called the week’s multiple assaults “a grim reminder that Canada is not immune to the types of terrorist attacks we have seen elsewhere around the world.”
We're just finding this out now? Evidence supports officer's account of shooting in Ferguson, The Washington Post is reporting:
If you've been in an office very long at all, you've undoubtedly had to endure more than one brainstorming session, those gatherings that usually produce little more than a stiff breeze. "Remember, there are no stupid ideas!" Remember that?
That's not the way creativity really works. Here's Isaac Asmimov, in a recently discovered, until now unpublished essay:
Back in December of 2013 I wrote a piece called “Why One Six-Year Presidential Term Would Be Good for America.” At that time President Obama was struggling, wrapping up his fifth year in office with three long years to go.
Michigan now has a "right to try" law for terminal patients:
This seems quite reasonable to me, but I suspect we're so deep into the welfare-state mentality that it will seem cruel and coldhearted to a lot of people:
WASHINGTON – Indiana will begin cutting off food stamp benefits next year to tens of thousands of people who fail to get a job or train for work.
I love lists like this -- "A complete list of every president's favorite drink" -- because they make our chief executives seem almost human instead of the narcissistic, ruthless tyrants they actuall are. I note there doesn't seem to be a teetotaler teetotaler among them, although a few had pretty much quit drinking by the time they got to the White House -- Eisenhower, for ecample, because of his several heart attacks and George W. Bush because his acknowledged alcoholism. I love this story about Richard Nixon:
Early voting has grown so much that Election Day is becoming Election Month. That's making campaigning more complicated and expensive. And then there is this problem:
It appears that the pretentious, save-the-earth weenies are closer to world domination than I had supposed:
Whole Foods plans to start rolling out a system that ranks fruits and vegetables as "good," ''better" or "best" based on the supplier's farming practices.
CDC Director Thomas Frieden has "expressed regret" (love those weasel words) that he kept saying "Hey, we can handle this Ebola thing" when we clearly weren't ready for it:
Finally, they've come up with a name for our war/not war in Iraq in Syria, and it's exactly the kind of name you would expect for a futile, politically driven operation by an utterly incompetent administration:
More than two months after the U.S. first launched airstrikes against the Islamic State, the military mission has a name: “Inherent Resolve.”
