August 2nd, 2011

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The Necessity of the Fight

Here’s something no one wants to talk about, whether Republican or Democrat. Well, I should not say no one, but pretty much every Republican and Democrat who participated in the terms of the debate over the debt ceiling has ignored this. Government spending is going above 25% of GDP. Tax revenue, up until the last [...]

Morning Briefing for August 2, 2011

RedState Morning Briefing For August 2, 2011 Go to www.RedStateMB.com to getthe Morning Briefing every morning at no charge. I’ll be filling in for Neal Boortz again today. You can listen live from 8:30 a.m. to 1p.m. by going to http://wsbradio.com and call in at 1-800-WSB-TALK. — Erick 1. The Necessity of the Fight 2. [...]

Tech at Night: Anonymous still in trouble, Lessig and Stallman defend Swartz, Pickering deceives, USF

Frogmarch watch continues. Even as Anonymous has desperately tried to enlist unions into its anti-Paypal Jihad, Paypal funnels information to law enforcement to help catch the terrorists. I don’s use that word lightly, either. But when the gang is attempting to intimidate law enforcement, possibly as an answer to another high-profile arrest, I believe Anonymous [...]

WSJ Misses the Mark on Oil Markets and the SPR

An article by Sarah Kent in Monday’s Wall Street Journal, “Traders Eye Oil Tanker Play”, (full text requires subscription*) purports to explain current action in the oil market, as 30 million barrels of crude oil are due to be released from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) before August 31. … While they fall short of [...]

Is Gov. Steve Beshear (D, KY) extorting campaign contributions?

(Via Instapundit) That’s the rather bombshell allegation being made today; the gist is that Rodney Young (a retiring psychologist for the Department of Juvenile Justice has reported that his colleagues were the target of an attempt to extort $500 contributions to Steve Beshear’s re-election campaign, with the threat that they could lose their jobs if [...]

Barack Obama is Keyser Soze

Playing off of Francis’s timely post, I think we should start considering Barack Obama the Keyser Soze of American politics. He’s got the Democrats to take the fall with the base, convinced Obama is an inept negotiator. He’s got the GOP befuddled thinking they’ve had some success. Meanwhile, Obama himself gets several loose ends sewn [...]

Debt Deal & the Balanced Budget Amendment

Because a Balanced Budget Amendment (BBA) is the only type of budget reform capable of binding future Congresses, it is disappointing that the pending debt ceiling bill does not contain the Boehner bill’s requirement that a BBA be approved by Congress and sent to the states.  However, there is some good news for BBA supporters [...]

RIP: Neo-Keynesianism, 2007-2011.

If there has been one positive result from the recent knife fight in an alley that has been our debt ceiling debate, it’s come from watching the self-appointed Smartest People In The Room come to the belated realization that they’ve been out-maneuvered by a bunch of hobbits. No, don’t take it from me: listen to [...]

Obama is the Big Winner in the Debt-Ceiling Debate

This isn’t Monday-morning quarterbacking. For one thing, it’s not football season yet. For another, the game wasn’t played on Sunday afternoon. It’s been going on for weeks, with twists and turns more reminiscent of comic opera than football. Even so, today’s media game has been all about deciding who got the better deal. Many of [...]

Why there is no left-populist movement.

Peter Beinart doesn’t understand why the Tea Party gets to be the populist movement transforming American politics, instead of whatever latest cargo cult on the Left is these days.  In the spirit of bipartisanship – with ‘bipartisanship’ being defined as ‘kicking progressives in the teeth for the amusement of the crowd’ – I shall deign [...]