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How Did Dingy Harry Get Rich As A Public Servant?
Real Clear Politics: Harry Reid’s Long, Steady Accretion of Power & Wealth Last month, as the Senate was busy negotiating the final details of its Ukraine aid package, Majority Leader Harry Reid became temporarily distracted with a campaign finance issue. … Continue reading
If they’re so great, why do we need a law to make people buy them?
From the list of Shit That Pisses Me Off: The incandescent light bulb isn’t dead Reports were greatly exaggerated Perhaps you’ve heard the news: the incandescent light bulb is dead. “When the ball drops on New Year’s Eve, the year … Continue reading
No Vans Land
Hot Air: Before there was Uber, there was Hector Ricketts’ Community Transportation Systems, Inc. Uber has snagged tons of press and unlikely allies as the San Francisco-based high-end car service app clashes with powerful union and bureaucratic forces in every … Continue reading
Posted in Blue Model Fail, Capitalism, Corruption, Crony Capitalism
Tagged Blue Model Fail, Corruption, Crony Capitalism
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The Moral Equivalent Of War?
Jonah Goldberg: The Hollow Core of Obamaism Longtime readers of mine will recall that one of my bugaboos is the liberal obsession with the “moral equivalent of war.” Ever since William James coined the phrase, liberalism has essentially become a … Continue reading
Boomtown is full of rats
‘Boomtown’ Special Angers, Resonates with Americans Fox News will re-air “Boomtown” on Sunday at 9 p.m. EST and 9 p.m. PST. “Boomtown” is a one-hour investigative special that assails Washington, D.C.’s permanent political class for “extracting” taxpayer dollars from Americans … Continue reading
SHOCKER – ABC’s Brian Ross does some real reporting
When I caught this story last night I was so shocked I almost swallowed my bubblicious. But I wasn’t surprised by the hypocrisy – I’ve known for a while that the Obama Democrats are thoroughly corrupt – I was shocked … Continue reading
Posted in Corruption, Crony Capitalism, Disingenuous Democrats
Tagged Corruption, Crony Capitalism, Disingenuous Democrats
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20/20 CDS
Matt Stoller has it: Bill Clinton’s $80 Million Payday, or Why Politicians Don’t Care That Much About Reelection “There was a kind of inflection point during the five-year period between 1997 and 2003 — the late Clinton and/or early Bush … Continue reading
The way to hell is paved with good intentions
Via Hot Air: Preschooler’s Homemade Lunch Replaced with Cafeteria “Nuggets” A preschooler at West Hoke Elementary School ate three chicken nuggets for lunch Jan. 30 because a state employee told her the lunch her mother packed was not nutritious. The … Continue reading
OWS & Crony Capitalists – A love story
Via small dead animals
Posted in Crony Capitalism, Occupy Wall Street, OWS
Tagged Crony Capitalism, Occupy Wall Street
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Mama Grizzly
Sarah Palin: How Congress Occupied Wall Street Politicians who arrive in Washington as men and women of modest means leave as millionaires. Why? Mark Twain famously wrote, “There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.” Peter Schweizer’s new … Continue reading
Posted in 2012 Elections, Crony Capitalism, Occupy Wall Street, OWS, Sarah Palin, Uncategorized
Tagged Crony Capitalism, Occupy Wall Street, Sarah Palin
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Throw Them All Out
Via c4p, Newsweek/Daily Beast is featuring Peter Schweizer’s expose of rampant Congressional Insider Trading and Crony Capitalism. All perfectly legal (for them, they make the rules, after all) and all highly unethical. In the Spring of 2010, a bespectacled, middle-aged … Continue reading
The Crawdad Hole 