Too fat to work? They look like half the people at Disney World.
Soros' Media Matters is leaning hard on CNBC.
Reaching the beginning of the end of the recession? More at Financial Times
What is the extent of the urban heat island bias in land temperature measurement?
Tax my products, please, at WSJ. A quote:
The U.S. government mandates fuel-economy standards that force Detroit to make cars Americans don't want to drive. When Detroit loses money on those cars, Washington throws taxpayer dollars at its mistake, and the car makers demand a tax increase that would prod Americans to buy the unpopular cars that Washington mandates. As for what the American consumer or taxpayer wants -- or can afford in today's economy -- who cares? Welcome to government-run energy policy.
Obama's $100,000 bonus from AIG
More new evidence that intelligence is inherited (h/t, Gene Expression)
Cap and trade would be the largest tax ever
Afghanistan: "far from a catastrophe." Max Boot et al
Cosmetic surgery down in sagging economy
ACORN to participate in Census. That is unreal. Somewhat related: Do you know what OFA is? A quote from Am Thinker:
...we have a Movement -- this is their term, not mine -- organized by, and loyal to, a sitting President. Pledge canvassers, armed with your name, will ask you to pledge loyalty to the President too. A president whose term has already become a permanent campaign, is signing up ground forces in a mass organization pledged to personal loyalty to their Leader.
Does anyone know of any historical precedents for this in the United States?
On Social Security, he said "changes will be necessary" to the nation's retirement program. He emphasized, however, that the single most important thing the U.S. could do to put itself on a firm financial footing is to reform health care.
Pure baloney. There is no linkage there, unless they just repeat it often enough somebody might buy it.
More on the bonuses from the
Financial Post. “To use a current cliche, frequently deployed to humiliate bankers and CEOs: He doesn’t get it. Barack Obama, that is. He just doesn’t get it, and nor do millions of others who are following the U. S. President on his long destructive march against bankers and corporate executives for their alleged ‘recklessness and greed.’ . . . The leading government-created disaster behind the financial crisis is U. S. housing policy and the multi-trillion dollar securitized mortgage market created by the U. S.-government backed mortgage agencies known as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. In comments in 2007, Mr. Bernanke reported that the two agencies, with $5.2-trillion in mortgage obligations, posed a systemic risk."
A British family of four claims they are too fat to work. Together they weigh over 1,150 pounds. And they’re in the news because they claim their welfare benefits, equivalent to about $41,000 a year, are not enough to live on: The Chawners, haven'
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