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Archive for August, 2009

Forget The Dow, Check The Underwear Index

by Doug Mataconis @ Monday, August 31st, 2009. Filed under Business, Economics, Politics

The key to the future of the economy could lie in your underwear drawer:
For one answer to the nation’s most pressing economic question — when will the recession end? — just take a peek inside the American man’s underwear drawer.
There may be some new pairs there, judging by recent reports from retailers and analysts, and [...]

Pro-ObamaCare Protester Shows Up At Tea Party, Punches Participant In The Face

by Doug Mataconis @ Monday, August 31st, 2009. Filed under Dumbasses, Health Care Reform, Politics

Here’s additional video:

So much for calm rational dialog, huh ?

Chris Wallace: Torture Apologist

by Doug Mataconis @ Monday, August 31st, 2009. Filed under Dick Cheney, Homeland Security, Media, Politics, War On Terror

Fox News Sunday’s Chris Wallace made it pretty clear on Sunday where he stands on the torture debate:

Of course, this is the same guy who got his opinion on the issue from a fictional character:

By the way, I addressed Wallace’s argument about the lack of terror attacks since 9/11 yesterday.

Ron Paul: Death Of Ted Kennedy Could Lead To Passage Of ObamaCare

by Doug Mataconis @ Monday, August 31st, 2009. Filed under Barack Obama, Health Care Reform, Politics, Ron Paul

Boy, I hope he’s wrong about this one:

Denver May Effectively Decriminalize Marijuana Possession

by Doug Mataconis @ Monday, August 31st, 2009. Filed under Individual Liberty, War On Drugs

Get caught possessing marijuana in the City of Denver and you could one day get less than a slap on the wrist:
DENVER – A city panel in charge of overseeing marijuana possession crimes in Denver recommended on Wednesday that the fine for possession be set at $1.
If Denver’s presiding judge accepts the recommendation from the [...]

Was Afghanistan’s Election Rigged ?

by Doug Mataconis @ Monday, August 31st, 2009. Filed under Afghanistan, Foreign Affairs

Increasingly, the answer to that questions appears like it might be yes:
PUL-I-CHARKHI, Afghanistan — A Kabul teacher assigned to run a polling station in this village arrived at 6 a.m. on Election Day to find the ballot boxes already full, well before the voting was to start. When he protested, the other election officials told [...]

Iraqi Air Force Found…..In Serbia

by Doug Mataconis @ Sunday, August 30th, 2009. Filed under Foreign Affairs, Iraq, Serbia

The remnants of Saddam Hussein’s air force have been located in Serbia:
BAGHDAD — Iraqi officials have discovered that they may have an air force, after all.
The Defense Ministry revealed Sunday that it recently learned that Iraq owns 19 Russian-designed MIG-21 and MIG-23 jet fighters, which are in storage in Serbia. The ministry said Iraqi officials [...]

Majority Of Voters Would Vote To Replace Entire Congress

by Doug Mataconis @ Sunday, August 30th, 2009. Filed under 2010 Elections, Congress, Democrats, Politics, Republicans

The latest Rasmussen poll has yet another measure of the public antipathy toward Congress as an institution:
If they could vote to keep or replace the entire Congress, just 25% of voters nationwide would keep the current batch of legislators.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 57% would vote to replace the entire Congress [...]

John F. Kennedy Was A Supply-Sider Who Cut Taxes

by Doug Mataconis @ Sunday, August 30th, 2009. Filed under Economics, History, Politics

His name was Kennedy. He was the preeminent figure in the Democratic Party. And he was a resolute supply-side tax-cutter.
“It is a paradoxical truth,’’ he once told the Economic Club of New York, “that tax rates are too high today and tax revenues are too low and the soundest way to raise the revenues in [...]

Congresswoman Has Constituent Removed By Police At Town Hall

by Doug Mataconis @ Sunday, August 30th, 2009. Filed under Dumbasses, Politics

For the life of my I can’t figure out what this guy, who happens to be a retired police officer, did wrong:

Apparently, the reason he was removed was because he didn’t have a ticket permitting him to speak:
In four short years Carol Shea-Porter has evolved from a rabble-rousing, town hall disrupting anti-war activist who once [...]

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