Quebec Has Helicopters for Pepe Le Pew But Not for Emergency Patients
Authorities in the province of Quebec, Canada, seem to care more about the well-being of skunks and power lines than the well-being of patients with life-threatening health…
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Soros Critiques Obama’s Bank Policy
The preeminent funder of the American left, financier George Soros, an early supporter of President Obama, is now hitting Obama from the left. In an interview with Yahoo! Finance, Soros…
What Price, Solidarity
(Labor Watch, April 2009 PDF here) President Barack Obama says that his administration is committed to reviving the nation’s economic prospects and securing…
HuffPo and ACORN to Crash Tea Party?
Jeff Poor of NewsBusters reports that the Huffington Post and radical activist group ACORN are planning to infiltrate Tax Day “tea parties” protesting out-of-control government spending. “Only eight days…
NACA: Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America ACORN’s Rival in Shakedown Tactics
(Organization Trends, April 2009 PDF here) Did liberals cause the mortgage meltdown? The Left blames the recession on capitalism and laissez-faire. But…
Too Crazy to Fail
The governments of Iran and Venezuela have joined forces to create a joint bank aimed at promoting their exports, Reason’s Hit and Run blog reports. At the ribbon-cutting in…
Obama’s Grab-Bag Socialism
Edward Hudgins has a good article called “Obama’s Grab-Bag Socialism” at the Atlas Society website. Although comparing Fascism and socialism is often like discussing how many angels can dance…
Mr. Jefferson
A variation on Simon and Garfunkel’s “Mrs. Robinson” by The Mike Church Show Band offers apt commentary on America’s current political situation: (Hat tip: Doug Bandow of AmSpecBlog who got…
Statistical Voodoo Practitioner Tapped for Census Post
A practitioner of the statistical voodoo known as “sampling” has been selected by President Obama to head the Census Bureau, which is poised to carry out the decennial census next…
Government-Paid Lawyers Gone Wild
Attorneys working for the taxpayer-funded Legal Services Corporation may soon be free to litigate in an effort to make government bigger, writes John Carlisle, director of policy at the…