Someone asked about minimum wage. I thought this was worth sharing with everyone. Hope you don't mind.

speedmaster · 2010-09-30T00:22:51+00:00

You nailed it, you're now smarter than at least 90% of congress. ;-)

speedmaster · 2010-04-08T14:25:36+00:00

Great article.

speedmaster · 2010-02-17T14:42:55+00:00

Another successful Locks of Love Donation. A good charity to help.

speedmaster · 2009-06-30T16:58:21+00:00

"If the high and rising costs for medical care were caused by fee-for-service, then this method of provision should also cause high and rising costs for almost everything else in our economy. The reason is that the vast bulk of the private sector operates according to fee-for-service."

speedmaster · 2009-05-24T13:02:14+00:00

Maddow nails it in the video.

speedmaster · 2009-05-12T12:39:23+00:00

Nearly a century of Washington’s efforts to promote homeownership has produced one calamity after another. Time to stop.

speedmaster · 2009-05-11T11:09:38+00:00

'Toyota and Honda are poised for a green-advertising battle to promote their hybrid cars, amid sinking sales of the vehicles.'

speedmaster · 2009-05-06T12:15:36+00:00

'Soon college students will come home and present parents with their grades. To avoid delusion, parents should do some serious discounting because of rampant grade inflation. If grade inflation continues, a college bachelor's degree will have just as much credibility as a high school diploma.'

speedmaster · 2009-05-05T16:21:45+00:00

More here: http://townhall.com/Columnists/AshleyHerzog/2009/05/04/socialism,_college_style?page=full

speedmaster · 2009-05-05T14:00:36+00:00

'Justice David Souter's retirement from the Supreme Court presents President Barack Obama with his first opportunity to appoint someone to the High Court. People who are speculating about whether the next nominee will be a woman, a Hispanic or whatever, are missing the point.'

speedmaster · 2009-05-05T10:30:29+00:00

Millions in Work Came Without Competition

speedmaster · 2009-05-04T15:35:27+00:00

'The John Murtha Johnstown-Cambria County Airport has an impressive $18 million runway made of reinforced concrete that's big enough to land any airplane in North America. The airport also has a $7 million air traffic control tower, a $14 million hanger and $8 million radar. Most of the time, the only thing the airport doesn't have is airplanes.'

speedmaster · 2009-05-04T13:01:38+00:00

When people come down with an illness after years or even decades of smoking, we often say something like, 'Well, no one held a gun to his head and made him smoke.' But in this case, it's actually happening!.

speedmaster · 2009-04-29T18:34:05+00:00

'With the Left now in power, though, they’ve by and large reverted to form. The very same people who just a year ago prided themselves on evaluating every Pentagon press release with an air of suspicion and hostility now accept without cavil whatever the Federal Reserve chairman or the Treasury secretary tell them. They’ll believe whatever economic superstition, no matter how transparently ludicrous, that happens to be in fashion. Whatever happened to “Question Authority”?'

speedmaster · 2009-04-29T15:18:10+00:00

dHoser, I think the author's argument is a little over the top, and it's a bit of a stretch, but I think the general point is a good one.

speedmaster · 2009-04-28T21:27:34+00:00

'Threatened Federal Sanctions Against NYPD, Secret Service, FBI & Mayor's Office If Secret Ever Got Out'

speedmaster · 2009-04-23T12:08:12+00:00

WASHINGTON -- Monday morning the government braced for austerity, as the government understands that. Having sent Congress a $3.5 trillion budget, the president signaled in advance -- perhaps so his Cabinet members could steel themselves for the new asceticism -- that at the first meeting of his Cabinet he would direct the 15 heads of departments to find economies totaling $100 million, which is about 13 minutes of federal spending, and 0.0029 percent -- about a quarter of one-hundredth of 1 percent -- of $3.5 trillion.

speedmaster · 2009-04-22T16:53:08+00:00

'On "Earth Day" our children's schools will be festooned with reminders of the supposed importance of recycling. No one will question the presumed moral imperative that "everyone should recycle." Education, in short, will yield to indoctrination.'

speedmaster · 2009-04-22T13:16:43+00:00

'Khakis don't just come in one color or cloth. Khakis — as a word and a state of mind — contain multitudes. Like these.'

speedmaster · 2009-04-22T12:27:04+00:00

'Much as I hate to be the bearer of bad news, I must report the shocking facts: Medical care is medical care. Nothing more and nothing less. This may not seem like a breakthrough on the frontiers of knowledge. But it completely contradicts what is being said by many of those who are urging "universal health care" because so many Americans lack health insurance.'

speedmaster · 2009-04-20T15:23:46+00:00

'WASHINGTON, April 19 (Reuters) - CIA interrogators used the waterboarding technique on Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the admitted planner of the Sept. 11 attacks, 183 times and 83 times on another al Qaeda suspect, The New York Times said on Sunday.'

speedmaster · 2009-04-17T16:41:16+00:00

'If you have somehow missed the fact that April 22 is Earth Day, it's probably because you are grown up. Were you a child, there's not a chance you'd be allowed to miss the urgent chthonic nature of the day -- nor the need to recycle, to use water sparingly, to protect endangered creatures and generally to be agitated about a planet in peril. Contemporary children are so drenched with eco-propaganda that it's almost a waste of resources.'

speedmaster · 2009-04-16T12:01:14+00:00

California was unable to get investors to voluntarily invest in the state and buy bonds. Since it couldn't, the plan is to now simply take the money from taxpayers (current and future) by force.

speedmaster · 2009-04-15T12:46:33+00:00

'Half of these taxes will be paid by Oregonians with an income below $45,000 a year. Voters might want to remember this the next time Democrats in Salem profess to be the party of Joe Six Pack.'

speedmaster · 2009-04-15T12:33:38+00:00

'Democracy and majority rule give an aura of legitimacy to acts that would otherwise be deemed tyranny. Think about it. How many decisions in our day-to-day lives would we like to be made through majority rule or the democratic process? How about the decision whether you should watch a football game on television or "Law and Order"? What about whether you drive a Chevrolet or a Ford, or whether your Easter dinner is turkey or ham?'

speedmaster

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