Bravo to our Navy, our SEALs, and to Captain Phillips.
NY taxes now #1.
Mr. Silver says of the coming tax hikes: "We've done it before. There hasn't been a catastrophe." Oh, really? According to Census Bureau data, over the past decade 1.97 million New Yorkers left the state for greener pastures -- the biggest exodus of any state. New York City has lost more than 75,000 jobs since last August, and many industrial areas upstate are as rundown as Detroit. The American Legislative Exchange Council recently said New York had the worst economic outlook of all 50 states, including Michigan. And that analysis was done before these $4 billion in new taxes. How does Mr. Silver define "catastrophe"?
I think he could more accurately say that it hasn't been a catastrophe for the politicians.
Move along. Nothing to be learned here.
A history of the computer mouse. h/t, Thompson
Turns out that all of that about the evil Bush power grabs was insincere electioneering. Gee, who knew?
Daniel Hannen MEP on the Brit NHS:
Imagine that, in 1945, we had created a National Food Service. Suppose that, in the name of "fairness" and "need and not ability to pay", sustenance had been rationed by the state. Conjecture that every citizen had been allocated one butcher, one baker, one café and so on. We all know where that would have led: to bureaucracy, to duplication, to surpluses in one field and scarcity in another, to racketeering, to hunger. No one, not even Prescott, is suggesting that we socialise food distribution - even though food is at least as basic human need as healthcare. As those Americans of whom you seem so contemptuous might put it, John, go figure.
Chris Dodd's "Banking for Change" does seem like an unfortunate choice of campaign motto
More on China's excess of males
The NYT, Obama, and the UN Human Rights Council
The Blago case: Biz as usual?
The AP is sword-rattling towards the internet. I agree with the article that the relationship is symbiotic.
The Left hopes the New America will no longer be exporting democracy. I understand Realpolitik, but it hardly seems like something to be enthused about.
What is it about Europe and free speech?
Proposed: the right to sue the Fed gov for the weather
