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Occupied Wall Street, Unoccupied Brain

Pretty much everyone has seen or heard about the mob of malcontents camping out near Wall Street.  Well, attention was their goal, so far as I can tell.  The mob was not very strong in working for any specific change, and their communication skills were and are execrable.  The people saying these ‘occupy’ stunts are [...]

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The Maynards Take Manhattan

Is it just me or does it seem like this scene is more autobiographical than comedic when it comes to wide swaths of the Occupy Wall Street set:   People keep saying there’s common ground between the Tea Party and the Freebaggers.  That conservatives should engage them to work on shared goals.  Somehow I see [...]

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Another “Unexpected” Economic “Coincidence”

Private Sector Employment Tanked coincident with passage of Obamacare.

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The MSM have become Geese

A word of advice to our friends in the MSM: put down the crack pipe and seek professional help.

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Jobs and Politics

Earlier this week, I heard a couple radio guys discuss the rumored severance package for talk show host Conan O’Brien for an estimated thirty million dollars. “If I got a…

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Gut Renovation

Jim Geraghty's got an interesting piece up today at the Campaign Spot: We find ourselves dealing with the frightening realization that with the Obama administration, there is no plan B….

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Jobs in Stimulus Mirror are Much Smaller than They Appear

It seems that we have been getting bogus data on the number of jobs "saved or created". From the AP, emphasis mine: A Colorado company said it created 4,231 jobs…

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Puffery

This just in–not only is the federal government no good at "creating or saving" jobs with tax dollars, but they're also no good at counting the scant few jobs that…

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But at What Cost?

According to the NY Times (emphasis mine): Businesses that got stimulus contracts directly from the federal government reported creating or saving 30,383 jobs so far, according to data published Thursday…

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