Ah, a deal: does it even matter?

After reading Mark Steyn at his most scathing, no: The Democrat model of governance is to spend $4 trillion while only collecting $2 trillion, borrowing the rest from tomorrow. Instead of “printing money,” we’re printing credit cards and pre-approving our unborn grandchildren. To facilitate this proposition, Washington created its own form of fantasy accounting: “baseline budgeting,” [...]

Debt kabuki and Noonan regret: It’s Saturday laundry

Harry Reid and his cronies will shred the Boehner bill and stick it not to “the rich” but to the rest of us. How? Ed Morrissey explains the CBO process of scoring, and how Reid has figured the expiration of Bush tax cuts and the absence of an alternative means tax (AMT) patch will pad the coffers: Total [...]

Well, just confiscate their money why dontcha

After all, corporate greed is evil: As Republicans and Democrats continue to work towards a compromise to the country’s debt ceiling crisis, the U.S. Treasury Department said on Thursday that Washington now has a total operating balance of only US$73.768-billion. Meanwhile, Apple currently boasts a cash reserve of US$75.876-billion, as of its most recent quarterly earnings [...]

The progressive problem with blaming the rich folks for not paying their “fair share”

Finding out they’re the rich folks. Megan McCardle writes: I know a very large number of east coast progressives who are outraged when they suddenly discover that middle-class ol’ them, who doesn’t even have enough money to repair the cracks in the ceiling after property taxes and school bills and one not-very-nice vacation to Nova Scotia, [...]

So “paying the military and their families for sixty years when they only serve 20″ is unsustainable, eh?

That’s the attitude of the Defense Business Board which advised gutting the current military retirement system for a “fair” one that trims the budget by a mere $254 billion. Funny, that’s how I feel about folks on life-long welfare or hipsters on food stamps who didn’t serve that “meager 20″ in fighting in war zones, [...]

Better than auto-correct: spell check

It doesn’t get better than this. WordPress just suggested “demonizing” in lieu of “feminizing,” most likely at the suggestion of The Other McCain. Heh.

In the name of science (as if the Pill hasn’t contaminated enough lakes and streams)

They can’t stop until people aren’t fertile. From the NYT, the chase for testicular toxins: The most studied approach in the United States uses testosterone and progestin hormones, which send the body signals to stop producing sperm. While effective and safe for most men, they have not worked for everyone, and questions about side effects [...]

DOD recommends “radical” overhaul of military retirement

From the Army Times: A sweeping new plan to overhaul the Pentagon’s retirement system would give some benefits to all troops and phase out the 20-year cliff vesting system that has defined military careers for generations. In a massive change that could affect today’s troops, the plan calls for a corporate-style benefits program that would [...]

Perry of Paint Creek

Good news to get through the debt drudgery: Perry “all but certain” to declare in second half of August. This provides great insight into Perry’s character: The first place you need to go to understand Perry is Paint Creek, where he grew up. Paint Creek is not a town. It’s a watercourse that runs through the cotton [...]

Why is it easier to procure “medical marijuana” than raw milk?

Drug vs nutrition. Government gone wild. Lew Rockwell has the skinny on a state-by-state analysis of how to obtain raw dairy. Here in Colorado, green crosses dot the streets advertising “real doctor on premises” to write that ‘script for MMJ. But in order to buy raw milk, I have to buy a share of the cow and [...]