Category Archives: Politics

Baby Steps

This week, President Obama proposed regulatory changes that would limit big banks, implicitly those that received the guarantee of a government backstop during the crash last year, from investing for profits using their own hedge-funds or proprietary trading desks. This would be an excellent first step in reining in the power that the JP Morgans

Jon Stewart Tells Keith Olbermann What For

Keith Olbermann is a prick, that’s really all you can say. But Jon Stewart says it far better than I ever could. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c

Every Day It’s Some New Broken Promise

Hitler parodies never ever ever get old. Change we can believe in and all.

Political Discourse Olberman Style

Man, the leftist elites are flipping out. It must be hard waking up to the realization that democracy involves “the people” and not “you telling the riff-raff what they ought to do”. Congratulations to Scott Brown this morning but more importantly, congratulations to the people of Massachusetts who went to the polls in unprecedented numbers

Let’s Not Canonize The Wicked

Big Media is falling over itself trying to canonize the Lion of the Senate, Ted Kennedy, who died this week. But let’s not forget the man let a woman die that could have been saved while he tried to save his political career from the fallout. Apparently, he liked to joke about it. If that’s

We’re In The Very Best Hands

After solving all the nation’s really hard problems this morning, Democratic Senators lead by Chuck Schumer had plenty of time on their hands and decided to save the world from people who text while they drive. Thank God the economy, health care and world peace all got knocked out in that work session this morning.

The Natives Are Definitely Getting Restless

When avowed liberal talk show host Jon Stewart starts doing segments called “That’s Great, Now Fix The Economy”, I think it’s a pretty good sign that the honeymoon period is over. Hope and Change and all that jazz. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c That’s Great Now Fix the

From The Law Of Unintended Consequence Department

Back in May, Congress passed a bill that prevented credit card companies from raising interest rates for cardholders unless the cardholder’s payments were 60 days overdue. They did this under the guise of protecting the consumer against the capricious and evil credit card companies, apparently forgetting in the process that credit card companies and consumers

WalMart Is Changing The World

The business world is slightly kerfluffled this morning concerning WalMart announcing that they fully support President Obama’s healthcare initiative that would require employers to provide health insurance for all employees. Of course, if you look at this from WalMart’s view, this makes total sense. The people who run the company aren’t dummies which is apparent

Smoot-Hawley Couldn’t Have Been That Bad, Right?

Tyler at Marginal Revolution channels Matt Yglesias one of the more odious portions of the Waxman-Markey bill recently passed in the House, specifically the threat of tariffs on countries who don’t play along with our unserious climate change game. Even Obama says trade protections are a bad idea in this little game. For those not