“Is this a Town Hall or a Potemkin Village Hall?”
#askObama
h/t AtlanticJim
El Rushbo In Joplin, Missouri
The World Is Being Run By Crazy People
The unmatchable Thomas Sowell;
In the course of any given year, Congress votes on taxes, medical care, military spending, foreign aid, agriculture, labor, international trade, airlines, housing, insurance, courts, natural resources, and much more.
There are professionals who have spent their entire adult lives specializing in just one of these fields. The idea that Congress can be competent in all these areas simultaneously is staggering.
In related government enacted stupidity;
Loose Lips Akerson — a telecom exec who is the latest CEO to come through GM’s revolving executive-suite door — let fly that he would like to see the “federal gas tax boosted as much as $1 a gallon to nudge consumers toward more fuel-efficient cars.” […]
Akerson knows full well that the reason GM and Chrysler have paid off their government loans early is because fuel prices have declined, boosting the SUV market and their high per-vehicle profits. America’s low gas prices and high disposable income are why companies like Fiat are so desperate to enter the American market — because they make more money here on Jeep Grand Cherokees than on fuel-taxed, econobox Fiat 500s.
This kind of nonsense has earned Akerson scorn among auto insiders. “This is Dan Akerson live and in living color, folks,” writes veteran industry executive Peter De Lorenzo on his blog, “bringing his remarkable arrogance and nuanced cluelessness to bear on key product decisions that will affect GM’s competitive stance for years to come.”
Righteous Indignation
Adam Carolla interviews Andrew Breitbart. (audio file)
h/t Robert W.
Well, Darn!
Legal experts believe that Madam Justice Rosalie Abella, the only left-leaning judge on the court, is now doomed to perpetually find herself on the wrong end of 8-1 court decisions.
“Translation? The government wants a bigger piece of our pie here.”
Keynes Vs Hayek, Round 2
“People aren’t chessmen you can move on a board.” Enjoy!
Alberta Ardvark Gets Results!
It’s Like A Barbara Walters Interview
With G. Gordon Liddy. (h/t Cliff)
Happy Earth Day!
O, happy happy official Earth Day! And I can’t think of a better way to kick it off than to remember the founder of Earth Day, Ira “The Unicorn” Einhorn- now better known as Inmate #ES6859 at Houtzdale State Correctional Institution in Pennsylvania.
Game Changer
The True Finns are an anti-immigration party, wary of the influence of Brussels. A measure of their rise is that at the last election they secured just 4% of the vote. Yesterday they got 19%, which put them in third place. They expect to be invited to talks about joining a coalition.
Unlike other countries in the eurozone, Finland’s parliament has the right to vote on EU requests to bail-out other countries. Potentially the strong showing of the True Finns could delay the rescue plan for Portugal.
“This is a big, big bang in Finish politics,” Jan Sundberg, a professor from Helsinki University, says. “This is a big, big change.”
Sun News Launch
Just 8 hours to liftoff! (Heh. They’re actually running a countdown clock…)
Update: Sun News website, where it states a “watch live” option is coming soon.
Bought And Paid For
Top US political donors from 1989-2010.
Confessions Of A Greenpeace Dropout
The Frontier Centre For Public Policy is hosting a series of luncheons with Dr. Patrick Moore. Info at the links.
April 11, 2011 — Saskatoon
April 12, 2011 — Regina
April 13, 2011 — Winnipeg
Eat The Rich
Prince Arthur Herald
The Prince Arthur Herald is “a recently-launched, conservative student newspaper based out of McGill University, and is the only publication of its kind in Canada.” Check them out!
Related – At Montreal’s McGill University, jihadi death threats are protected speech. Looks like the Herald arrived just in time!
“this General Assembly will not be intimidated by nomadic bands of professional agitators.”
Tennessee is not Wisconsin.
The Things They Don’t Tell You On The CBC
Because that would mean replacing “right wing” with “top ranked”;
The University of Pennsylvania’s Global Go-To Think-Tank Index, a recently released global survey of close to 1,500 scholars, policy makers, and journalists, ranked the Fraser Institute No. 1 among 97 think-tanks in Canada, for the third year in a row. The report also named the Fraser Institute as the only Canadian organization in the Top 25 leading think-tanks in the world in 2010, out of a global group of 6,480 think-tanks.
YNoKyoto
The overwhelming veto-proof, bipartisan vote today means that New Hampshire is now on a path to doing something that looked impossible just a couple years ago — repeal a cap-and-trade program. In the process, it could deal the death blow to cap and trade both regionally and nationally.
Related: “No, thank you, I would like one for free.”
h/t Maz2