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Friday, September 25. 2009

Friday links, updated

Anti-trust suits: Most are brought by busted businesses, not crusaders. Hmmm.


Hominids rock! The Anthropocene.


How big is the Commerce Clause?


Mr. Clean Government: Reid blocks ACORN probe


Nobody really cares too much about major health care changes. (Except the Dem pols who want the power). So if people aren't demanding it, what's the big rush? Betsy


Related: Sliding polls on the O on health and war


Repubs definitely have a chance to take back the House. Hopey-changey.


Gov Paterson: Our taxes have cost us jobs and driven people out of the state. Absolutely right.


Supporting Whirled Peas. "President Obama yesterday did his best impression of a high-school sophomore participating in his first Model UN meeting, retailing pious clichés he learned from his pony-tailed social studies teacher."


Related from Powerline: Obama - too foolish even for the WaPo


Related, Giuliani warns re "dangerous moral equivalence"


WH met with 60 artists prior to NEA call, to support Dem policies. This stinks, but the NEA shouldn't exist anyway. Michelangelo did just fine without it.

Posted by The News Junkie in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 09:04 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)

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Re New York's taxes: a little while ago, before the administration of Paterson in NYawk or His Hopeful Changeness in DC, there was a debate over school funding. Part of the debate model was that increasing taxes would drive out those who had large but not ridiculous incomes, leaving a shrinking tax base until the base collapsed. It was poo-pooed at the time.
The time was 1972. The result has happened in places like NYawk and Mattatusets. It didn't happen in a single catastrophe, so the progressives missed it. But happen it has.
#1 Geoff Brown on 2009-09-25 09:49 (Reply)
The big rush is that we're experiencing a slow motion coup d'etat.
#2 ahem on 2009-09-25 16:34 (Reply)

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