http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSax5A36Q0Y&feature=player_embedded America’s infrastructure is in awful shape at the worst possible time. One of the key bridges in the New York metropolitan area is the Tappan Zee Bridge, connecting Westchester and Rockland Counties. The Tappan Zee, which already has exceeded its 50-year-shelf life, serves 179,000 vehicles a day, including trucks that deliver crucial goods and services […]
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Sheer Naked Politics
Have Russian politics ever been boring? Can you imagine trying this in, say, Iowa?
Read the rest of this entry »Kitchen-Table Economics
Associated Press had a good piece over the weekend on the debt crisis, equating the nation’s challenges to that of family households. It helps drive home the severity of the nation’s spending problem, which, just a few months ago, many on the Left were arguing does not exist. Definitely worth a read.
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Great piece by Jeff Jacoby in The Boston Globe about The Fluorescent Light Bulb Industry Scam of 2011 going into effect in December. That’s when perfectly good, reasonably-priced incandescent bulbs will begin to be outlawed to boost/mandate fluorescent bulb sales. The new law was driven entirely by fluorescent light manufacturers. Writes Jacoby: “Defenders of the ban insist that moving to compact fluorescent will save money in […]
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Met an inn owner in Bartlett Village, NH this morning –a British expat who abandoned New York City with his wife after 9-11 for a new life in the woods. He had been a banker; she an advertising executive. This particular morning they were flipping omelets –good ones –pouring coffee, and generously advising guests […]
Read the rest of this entry »Gallup Shocker
A just-released Gallup Poll has President Obama losing to a generic Republican 47-39. No wonder Mr. Obama is getting testy.
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http://youtu.be/mBm0J4vqY8g?t=41s Nancy Pelosi probably wants this one back.
Read the rest of this entry »I Don’t Get Bastille Day
I have always wondered why the French celebrate Bastille Day with such zeal. The occasion marked the beginning of the French Revolution, which led to one of history’s mass genocides. Up to 40,000 Frenchmen (and women) were beheaded in The Reign of Terror, with neither charge nor trial, before hysterical, blood-thirsty crowds. A mob mentality overwhelmed the French nation necessitating a counter-revolution to […]
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Today’s headlines focus on President Obama’s walk-out (from his own office) of deficit negotiations with House leaders yesterday. But a potentially more consequential story today, by New York Times reporter Kevin Sack, questions not Mr. Obama’s temper, but his truthfulness. It is the type of story easily remembered in the voting booth by undecided voters. Mr. […]
Read the rest of this entry »Bettors Sour on Debt Ceiling Deal
More than half of bettors on the Dublin-based InTrade Predictions Market are waging that a deal to raise the U.S. Federal Debt Limit will not be penned by July 31st. Just 40% of bettors are bullish that a deal will get done by then (that percentage dropped eight points in the three or four minutes […]
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