Category Archives: National

NYT: Applying Heat To Water Causes It To Boil

I had to crack up at this p. 1 story from the venerable NYT (“Lack of Doctors May Worsen as Millions Join Medicaid Rolls”): Under the health care law, a flood of new patients will soon be covered by Medicaid, … Continue reading

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Blue Laws

A Pizza Hut manager who refused to open his store on Thanksgiving Day gets fired… then, upon bad publicity, Pizza Hut reinstates him. We’re now in the ‘libertarian’ era of stores open on Thanksgiving and Christmas…. and, well, all 365 … Continue reading

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The JFK Mythos

I’ve never really understood the lionization, and near martyrdom status, of JFK. Just because someone gets assassinated doesn’t automatically make them ‘great’. In his latest column, Pat Buchanan addresses the JFK mythos.

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Desert Hot Springs: The Next Domino

The next CA domino to fall: DESERT HOT SPRINGS, Calif. — This financially troubled city declared a fiscal emergency Tuesday in an effort to avert a second federal bankruptcy filing. The City Council voted unanimously to declare the emergency as … Continue reading

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Another One Bites The Dust

… Another domino falls: DESERT HOT SPRINGS, California (Reuters) – A resort town in California warned on Tuesday that it will run out of money by March due to burdensome salary and pension costs and could join other U.S. cities … Continue reading

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CA: Poll Shows GOP Losing Ethnicity, Age Battle

From the LA Times, here’s a harbinger for the rest of the country: Deep inside a new USC/Los Angeles Times poll are details that could make the California Republican Party, and by extension its cohorts elsewhere in the country, fear … Continue reading

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Charles Murray: Uncommon Knowledge Interview

Here’s the full 47 min Uncommon Knowledge interview with the great Charles Murray, discussing how White America is ‘Coming Apart’.

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Why Texas Is Our Future

“Why Texas Is Our Future” (subscription required) is the Time cover story by the excellent libertarian writer Tyler Cowen, proprietor of the influential blog Marginal Revolution: As an economist and a libertarian, I have become convinced that whether they know … Continue reading

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UC Davis Pepper Spray Cop Given $38k in Worker’s Comp for His ‘Suffering’

Why is California broke? Why will the other 49 states soon be asked to bail the state out? Here is but one of the millions of reasons. And here is but one instance of that one reason.

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Wed

So, we’re going to borrow another $1 trillion, which will get spent within a year, without any structural changes to reduce spending. The Democratic Party and Conservatism, Inc must be clinking champagne glasses. What a great day for America.

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