What socialism hath wrought upon wretched Venezuela: What has Chávez bequeathed his fellow Venezuelans? The hard facts are unmistakable: The oil-rich South American country is in shambles. It has one of the world’s highest rates of inflation, largest fiscal deficits, and fastest growing debts. Despite a boom in oil prices, the country’s infrastructure is...
Happy Sequester Day!
Yes, it is a truly tiny baby step toward fiscal responsibility, but even that’s worth celebrating given what we usually get from these clowns in Washington. Watch Obama’s stunning flip-flop in the video below. He goes from threatening to veto any bill that undoes the sequester to acting like these tiny cuts are the...
Life imitates (bad) art
You know how cars unrealistically explode in movie accidents? Well, it happens in real life too:
[Police] said [rapper Kenneth] Cherry and the occupants of the Range Rover had left the Aria resort hotel and were heading north on Las Vegas Boulevard at 4:20 a.m., an hour when the casino marquees shine brightly but the gambling thoroughfare is largely empty. At Harmon Avenue, occupants inside the Range Rover opened fire on [Cherry's] Maserati, police said.
The silver-gray sports car, which was struck several times, sped into the intersection at Flamingo Road, ramming a Yellow cab, officials said. The taxi exploded, killing the driver and a passenger. Four other vehicles in the intersection were also involved in the crash and explosion, but police offered no details.
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SotU: A meaningless ritual
Mark Steyn makes comparisons: When the Queen or her viceroy reads a Throne Speech in Westminster, Ottawa, or Canberra, it’s usually the work of a government with a Parliamentary majority: In other words, the stuff she’s announcing is actually going to happen. That’s why, lest any enthusiasm for this or that legislative proposal be...
Just when I thought the era of fun TV was over…
This year brought two great shows, The Americans and Continuum.
Why Ken Cuccinelli will be Virginia’s next governor
It is better to be lucky than good. He’s lucky and good: The Washington Post keeps waiting for the time when Cuccinelli will be sunk. It never comes. “He doubts the science of global warming,” wrote the paper in a 2009 editorial, endorsing his opponent in the attorney general race. “He peddles outmoded, half-baked and prejudicial theories about...
Hopey-changey millenials getting crushed…
By hope n’ change: A comprehensive new Harvard University report on Americans under 30, the so-called Millennials, shows that the economy is having a crushing impact, with just 62 percent working, and of those, half are toiling at part-time jobs. The report, released by Harvard’s Institute of Politics, paints a depressing economic portrait of...
California school district builds brand new high school it doesn’t need and can’t afford
San Diego Union-Tribune: A number of teachers and parents are asking the Carlsbad Unified School District to delay the planned August opening of Sage Creek High School, arguing that it will strain resources and isn’t needed at this time. “This new high school is just going to be a ruination of the district,” said...
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