Category Archives: National Issues

Bankrupting A Nation

Today, if accounts are cor­rect, Pres­i­dent Obama will sign a bill that in name is called “Amer­i­can Recov­ery and Rein­vest­ment Act of 2009” but in truth is prob­a­bly the begin­ning of the bank­ruptcy of the United States. It is a bill that no Con­gress­man or woman read in full, that con­tains over fif­teen hun­dred pages …

February 17, 2009 – 9:35 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in National Issues | Comments (0)

Why Can Just Anyone Have 14 Babies

Look, I know we need to err on the side of cau­tion in most fer­til­ity cases but I think it’s clear to any ratio­nal human being that this woman is men­tally deranged and shouldn’t be allowed to have kids. On top of that, her idiot fer­til­ity doc­tor should be dis­barred, tarred and feath­ered and then …

February 10, 2009 – 9:58 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in National Issues | Tagged , | Comments (2)

Can You Cure An Addict By Giving Him More Drugs?

Only if you want to kill him. Car­o­line Baum dis­cusses this very topic on Bloomberg. Imag­ine a doc­tor who, faced with an alco­holic, diag­nosed more alco­hol as a treat­ment. A doc­tor like that would be thrown out of the med­ical pro­fes­sion and right­fully so. Yet, our polit­i­cal lead­ers, when faced by a cri­sis cre­ated by …

January 28, 2009 – 10:09 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Economics, National Issues | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Is Selling Porn Worse Than Robbing People?

The Jus­tice Depart­ment thinks so. Here, we have a police offi­cer who bribed His­pan­ics to give him money in exchange for not arrest­ing them. He gets 1 year of home arrest while a man sell­ing tapes show­ing con­sent­ing adults hav­ing sex to con­sent­ing adults gets 33 months in prison. The police have one task and …

December 15, 2008 – 10:28 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in National Issues | Tagged | Comments (0)

Dumb and Dumber

via Tom Toles at The Wash­ing­ton Post

October 8, 2008 – 3:12 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Economics, National Issues | Tagged , | Comments (0)

The Rich Get Richer

Not that we need any­more depress­ing news about the econ­omy here at The Exper­i­ment (we haven’t bought scotch in months, at $60 a bot­tle, it’s a lit­tle rich for us right now) but some­times, things need to get seen. Remem­ber the $85 bil­lion with a b bailout of AIG that was all the rage lately? …

October 7, 2008 – 11:55 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Economics, National Issues | Comments (0)

Countrywide: Helping People Stay In Homes They Can’t Afford Since 2008

A story: once there was a cou­ple who got engaged and decided to buy a house. This was in the fall of 2004 when the hous­ing mar­ket was peak­ing and fab­u­lous homes could be bought with no income ver­i­fi­ca­tion and mag­i­cal choose your own pay­ment plans. This cou­ple qual­i­fied for one of these fab­u­lous homes …

October 7, 2008 – 10:17 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in National Issues | Tagged , | Comments (4)

When The Government Gambles

It’s all good. When you do it, it’s 2 years in prison for you, mis­ter. Some day, I’ll be too cyn­i­cal to be amazed by the audac­ity of our hyp­o­crit­i­cal lead­ers but I’m not there yet. It takes a lot of balls to out­law online gam­bling in a bill that specif­i­cally allows for the cre­ation …

November 14, 2007 – 8:40 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in National Issues | Comments (0)

Justice Served

My day just perked right up when I read this. I love it when ass­hats like Fred Phelps get their teeth kicked in. (Hat Tip: Stub­born Facts)

November 1, 2007 – 8:13 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Culture, National Issues | Comments (0)

New Lows

The Demo­c­ra­tic Party and Moveon.org have sunk to new lows in their race to the bottom.  The New York Times fol­lows closely behind.  Our polit­i­cal process has become extreme and inca­pable of involv­ing gray areas of discussion.  Both par­ties are at fault here.  But the Democ­rats and their hard left anti-war, pro-defeat base are clearly …

September 11, 2007 – 7:58 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in National Issues, Politics | Comments (0)