Congressman Roy blunt raised raised $1.44 million in the second quarter of this year. His (presumed) Democrat opponent Jean Carnahan raised just over $1 million. Blunt now also leads the important cash on hand race $1.7 million to $1.3 million. All of this of course assumes that Congressman Blunt doesn’t have a primary. Should there [...]
Archive for July, 2009
The folks over at the Washington Post have done a very good job of putting together a chart on what health care reform means to the people that matter: the consumer. They have it broken out into the different groups of how you get your health care coverage (or lack thereof). (Click to enlarge) Read [...]
So, Krugman got his panties in a wad over a blog post written by Greg Mankiw (that I linked to in yesterday’s must reads). Well, let’s just say that the term dog pile comes to mind in the response. Robert Book (the author of the study that Mankiw linked), jumped out first with a post [...]
The Congresscritter who sponsors this legislation would assure themselves of my vote (I would say for life, but they could pull a Sanford). [E]very product whose ingredients benefit from a subsidy should include the following language on the label: “This product has been subsidized by the U.S. government at taxpayer expense. For more information, please [...]
There has been much talk that there needs to be a bail out for the nation’s news papers. Why? It’s clear that although their profits and revenues are falling dramatically that they are still profitable. They must not be in that much trouble. h/t Matt Welch
Social Cost – John Goodman Social cost is the sum of all the individual costs. That is, it’s the cost to me plus the cost to you plus….. etc., summing over 300 million people. In doing the summation, we can’t omit whole groups of folks. Although this may come as a surprise to some, doctors [...]
McArdle on Krugman: But when I look at the graph, it looks to me as if the stimulus was supposed to affect the unemployment rate immediately. Specifically, it was supposed to dramatically lower the rate of increase in unemployment immediately. By now, at the beginning of Q3, unemployment was supposed to start falling. But unemployment [...]
…using LEGOs! Thanks to Political Math for another fine video.
I saw this chain email shared on Jules Crittenden‘s site and had to share it too. When in England, at a fairly large conference, Colin Powell was asked by the Archbishop of Canterbury if our plans for invading Iraq were just an example of empire building by George Bush. He answered by saying, ‘Over the [...]
