Thursday, March 31, 2011
Sunday, March 27, 2011
2010 Census: Growth Above Average in No Income Tax States and Right to Work States
Michael Barone: The lesson is that high taxes and strong public employee unions tend to stifle growth and produce a two-tier society like coastal California's.
The eight states with no state income tax grew 18 percent in the last decade. The other states (including the District of Columbia) grew just 8 percent.
The 22 states with right-to-work laws grew 15 percent in the last decade. The other states grew just 6 percent.
The 16 states where collective bargaining with public employees is not required grew 15 percent in the last decade. The other states grew 7 percent.
The eight states with no state income tax grew 18 percent in the last decade. The other states (including the District of Columbia) grew just 8 percent.
The 22 states with right-to-work laws grew 15 percent in the last decade. The other states grew just 6 percent.
The 16 states where collective bargaining with public employees is not required grew 15 percent in the last decade. The other states grew 7 percent.
Friday, March 18, 2011
Tokyo power company has been faking nuclear safety reports for years
Bloomberg: The unfolding disaster at the Fukushima nuclear plant follows decades of falsified safety reports, fatal accidents and underestimated earthquake risk in Japan's atomic power industry.
Thursday, March 17, 2011
The problem with prescriptions for OTC products
WSJ: Patients are demanding doctors' orders for over-the-counter products because of a provision in the health-care overhaul that slipped past nearly everyone's radar. It says people who want a tax break to buy such items with what's known as flexible-spending accounts need to get a prescription first.
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The IRS eventually decided the cards could be used—as long as the pharmacist labels and processes the over-the-counter item exactly like a prescription.
That had another unintended effect. Thousands of over-the-counter products now must pass behind the pharmacist's counter when the customer pays with the special debit card.
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Big Brother in school
Daily Caller: Education Department officials are threatening school principals with lawsuits if they fail to monitor and curb students’ lunchtime chat and evening Facebook time for expressing ideas and words that are deemed by Washington special-interest groups to be harassment of some students.
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Monday, March 14, 2011
Obama’s Social Security Hoax
Krauthammer has a nice explanation of the fictional Social Security "trust fund".
OPEC joins Pimco in cutting US dollars
Bloomberg: Oil-exporting countries are cutting holdings of U.S. government debt as energy prices rise, helping depress the dollar, the worst-performing major currency of the past six months.
Monday stuff
What Pi Sounds Like. (Today is Pi Day)
Gallery of Decorated Gas Tanks.
Infographic: "The Science Behind Traffic Jams"
How to Make a Laser From a Gin and Tonic.
Giant shoe car.
Five things you never knew about Pac-Man.
Science headline of the day. Maybe this will fix the problem.
Gallery of Decorated Gas Tanks.
Infographic: "The Science Behind Traffic Jams"
How to Make a Laser From a Gin and Tonic.
Giant shoe car.
Five things you never knew about Pac-Man.
Science headline of the day. Maybe this will fix the problem.
Evolving Surface of a 3D Fractal.
Thank God for evolution.
In international arms sales news, Lockheed Martin Tried to Trade F-16s for Frozen Chickens.
Export hopes for urine-boiled eggs.
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Run, Democrats, run
Dr. Milton Wolf: You’d run too if you had to defend the failures of big government.
"The free market is the most powerful engine of human prosperity in the history of mankind and today’s Democrats stand desperately in its way to appease those who are enriched by big government at the expense of everyone else. It’s not by coincidence that the most prosperous and powerful nation the world has ever known grew out of the cradle of democracy. Freedom, after all, is the core of the free market. It’s the freedom for you to control your own resources and with them, your destiny. It’s the understanding of a simple concept that you can spend your own dollars more effectively than the government can spend them for you."
Water injected into troubled nuclear power plant to avert disaster
Japanese authorities scrambled Sunday to avert a nuclear disaster, injecting seawater into overheating reactors and relieving the pressure inside at a nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture that was hit and shut down by Friday's devastating earthquake.
Salman Khan: Let's use video to reinvent education
Video: Salman Khan talks about how and why he created the remarkable Khan Academy, a carefully structured series of educational videos offering complete curricula in math and, now, other subjects. He shows the power of interactive exercises, and calls for teachers to consider flipping the traditional classroom script -- give students video lectures to watch at home, and do "homework" in the classroom with the teacher available to help.
The White House's Green-Jobs Fantasies
John Stossel: Anyone who understands basic economics already knows that President Obama's $2.3 billion green-jobs initiative was snake oil. Now, thanks to Kenneth P. Green, we have statistics as well as theory to prove it.
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Michelle Malkin's Cousin Marizela Perez Still Missing
Michelle has a update with more pictures She has been missing in Seattle since Saturday and was last seen at the University District Safeway.
Updated flyer information:
MISSING PERSON
Name: Marizela Perez
Date Missing: Saturday March 5, 2011
Last Seen: 1-2 P.M. at the Safeway in University District (4732 Brooklyn Ave NE Seattle, WA 98105) (this is CONFIRMED)
Possible Routes: Sound Link Light Rail stations, downtown/Chinatown areas, UW Seattle campus, U-district
Description – Asian female, 5’5” tall, 110 lbs, skinny build, asymmetrical bob with short bangs and brown/red highlights hairstyle, tattoo on left inner arm with the words ‘lahat ay magiging maayos’ (Tagalog, meaning ‘all will be well’), last seen wearing a dark hooded jacket, denim jeans, light brown suede laced boots, possibly wearing green eye contacts, possibly carrying a denim drawstring bag with rainbow butterfly screenprint (not the plaid backpack that was before mentioned) with a Macbook Pro laptop, taking medication for depression
Please contact if you have any information regarding this person:
Edgar: 609 – 646 – 0905
Jasmin: 609 – 742 – 2360
Mel: 206 – 760 – 1822
Joy: 609 – 742 – 2336
Out of control gov't spending
Comments and links at Reason re Rand Paul's speech from yesterday. "We’re not even really cutting spending. What we’re talking about is cutting the rate of increase of spending. The base line of spending is going to go up 7.3 % according to the CBO. We’re talking about reducing that increase to 6.7% increase. We’re talking about cutting the rate of increase of government"
Read the whole thing.
Socialized Medicine: Theory Versus Practice
Dr. Paul Hsieh: "Nowhere is the gulf between theory and practice more clear than in socialized medical systems around the world. Why is this the case, and what can Americans learn from this?"
Monday, March 7, 2011
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