Maggie's Farm

From Insty:

ERIC S. RAYMOND: Timing the Entitlements Crash. "The fundamental problem is that income-transfer programs (and the interest service on the debt purchased to keep them running) are spending wealth in higher volumes than the economy can actually generate, and demand for that spending is rising faster than the economy is growing. Thus, raising tax rates is no longer a way out, if it ever was." Remember, if something can't go on forever, then it won't.

Mainstream? This is truly ugly, and desperate.

Sarah is bad for your mental health.

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McCain's campaign and the OODA loop

Paglia and David Thompson on Palin.

If you like Michigan's economy, you'll love Obama's.

Obama's big blunder.

Does the idea of American exceptionalism sum up this election?

The economy pessimists are driven by politics, not facts

What's the oldest item in this campaign? Obama's ideas

Mankiw: How come so many libs don't give to charity

Sowell begins his The Vision of the Left thus:

Conservatives, as well as liberals, would undoubtedly be happier living in the kind of world envisioned by the left.

Read the whole thing.