Maggie's Farm

Rejection Therapy

Rejection is good for personal growth and humility.

Sullivan: There was no housing bubble. One quote:

You borrowed against your house to send your kid to college. Your kid now lives in your basement eating Cheetos and downloading porn all day instead of out in the workforce, sitting at a desk eating Cheetos and looking at porn on company time as God and Nature intended. But that's a college education bubble. A college loan bubble. You borrowed against a useful and valuable thing, your house, and your children learned Ida Tarbell's bra size, but nothing useful enough to make them employable in a recession.

Surber: An epidemic of epidemics

Each one requiring a government program.

Jay Cost: The Latest Sign of the Dem-Pocalypse

Life in the sticks: More on the South Fulton FD Brouhaha

Poverty Pimps

A culture of lying in the Middle East.

It's multicultural to understand that not all people share our values. Truth is far from a universal value, even in the West.

Freedom of speech on trial in the Netherlands

Higher-Ed-Bubble Update: Pansexuality Edition

WSJ: ObamaCare and the Election - The GOP needs to raise the health-care stakes in 2010, and beyond

Sowell: Red Herring Politics: Part II

Postcards from Vermont

I don't get why VT politics are so different from NH.

Via Neo's Left and right, Britain and here:

Not everyone believes Obama is a Marxist. Coming from England he seems pretty right wing to me.

The Battle for America 2010: Labor Unions Looking to Rescue Feingold in Wisconsin

Poll: Sarah Palin Favorable Rating Just 22 Percent.

The media's Newt Treatment worked on Sarah, but it almost always works on anybody who is targeted. I think she should have run for the Senate.

Gallup Finds U.S. Unemployment at 10.1% in September, Underemployment, at 18.8%, is up from 18.6% at the end of August

Rove: Democrats and 'Poisoned' Politics - Incumbents launch personal attacks to divert attention from the economy's poor performance.

Delaware:

If these polls even come close to measuring the sentiment of Delaware voters, then Coons, an out-and-out leftist, will waltz into the Senate and begin serving at the beginning of the November lame duck session.

This did not have to happen.