This is nuts. The economy may be rebounding a bit days before we go mortgage the next two generations with debt at the alter of liberal pork spending: Sales at U.S. retailers unexpectedly halted a record six-month slide in January, an advance that may not be sustained as job losses climb. The 1 percent increase […]

As Embryonic Stem Cell Research continues to flail away (while wasting money and killing viable young human beings) Adult Stem Cell Research keeps making stunning medical breakthroughs. News is out that an AIDS patient stricken with Leukemia was cured of both by an experimental Adult Stem Cell therapy: A German AIDS patient was able to […]

Oh for Pete’s sake, is this all we get from all the Chicken Little cries emanating from DC? It includes Obama’s signature “Making Work Pay” tax credit for 95 percent of workers, though negotiators agreed to trim the credit to $400 a year instead of $500 — or $800 for married couples, cut from Obama’s […]

Not sure why it happened, but apparently a Russian and US Satellite collided over Antarctica on February 10th. Word is (no formal announcements) that the US satellite was an Iridium communications satellite in Low Earth Orbit, the Russian satellite was one of the vaguely named Cosmos satellites, which could have been one of Russia’s reconnaissance birds. What […]

Final Update: Jennifer Rubin has probably summarized the result of the stimulus bill the best today: The president seems likely to win the battle but lose the argument — and the war. The battle is the stimulus bill which passed the Senate on Tuesday and will clear the conference committee this week. But the argument […]

Folks, We are quite aware we are having site issues. Seems we are getting slammed by search bots who are thrashing the server. We attempting to find some fixes. Sadly, we may need to expand this little operation, which is beginning to get a little expensive. Not sure if we will have to suffer through […]

  Someone explain to me again why I have to mortgage the finances of my children and grand children for this insane stimulus bill – which does everything BUT stimulus? What is the emergency here – when this is what we are buying! But the money won’t just go to buy fuel-efficient hybrids such as […]

Major Update: Finally, the Washington Post has exposed the major fraud behind the fake panic to get a bill quickly, when in fact we could wait weeks since the Federal Acquisition infrastructure is in no position to absorb this much spending all at once: The Obama administration’s economic stimulus plan could end up wasting billions of dollars […]

OK, I find it very disturbing when I think I understand the top issues of the day, and then I found out I was in the dark and off the mark by a factor of ten. And when we talk bailout bills being off by 10 is scary. First we had the bank bail out […]

Kim Priestap over at Wizbang has a great clip of Milton Friedman explaining to a liberal media elite the truth about capitalists and politicians: Still very much true – if not more so. H/T reader Frogg