Dear Mr. Actor 212,

Thank you for contacting the Federal Reserve, and for your helpful comments, which we will place in our round, digital “suggestion box.” Currently, Chairman Bernanke is working on individual […]

Here’s what I take from that. Nelson employs a logical fallacy–argumentum ad auctoritatum, an argument from authority, vouching that the two “loyal readers” are credible, and that their credibility should be […]

That Washington’s Blog post is really stellar. I’d second Don’s recommendation for anyone seeing this to go over there and read it. An executive summary is basically that all of the economic statistic indicators […]

WaPo: 56-0 vote “Controversial.”

Hilarious.

Like <60 votes to overcome a filibuster = "Senate Democrats couldn't get a majority."

Felix Salmon opines that this bringing of the IMF to conclusion wasn’t arrived at after measured deliberation. If that’s the case, the negotiators might be realizing the inevitable, throwing up their hands, and […]

Is this not complete madness? Folly?

This must surely be calculated. What “solution” will they be peddling tomorrow for the catastrophe they’re causing today?

All this tells us is that Obama and the Republicans have agreed to cut Social Security through the sneaky “Chained CPI” and that Obama hasn’t gotten any concessions whatsoever. In this fashion he hopes to portray […]

You’re right. He didn’t lift a finger. These things don’t just happen without planning or consultation though. Same cast of public/private military/intelligence Bush Administration leftover trolls would pop out of […]

In a live address to the nation on Tuesday, Maduro said the US embassy military official was being expelled from the country for seeking out active Venezuelan military officials to propose “destabilisation […]

Atheists don’t get the social benefits of belonging to a congregation. This can be isolating and make simple things difficult: need the advice of a lawyer, plumber, neurologist, electrician? Can’t afford marriage […]

Credit where credit is due.

You can’t negotiate sequestration with the GOP, persuade your political allies in the House and Senate to vote for it, and sign it into law with accolades about “reaching across the […]

All the lefties I know—and they’re almost universally Obama supporters—keep going back to him and making excuses for him. He’s like a local oyster bar where you’re virtually assured to get hepatitis on top of […]

Maybe the first step should be to stop flogging for the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Constitutional Law Scholar, crypto-Republican Barack Obama who frustrates each and every one of your fine sentiments and good intentions.

That’s my favorite suggestion.

Time Magazine has proven to be an unreliable and compromised news source over and over again the past decade at least. You should read it with the skepticism due to Pravda. When it comes to their journalism, […]

If I were implementing sequestration, the first thing I would do is severely reduce staffing of air traffic controllers and security screeners at Dulles airport and every airport south of the Mason-Dixon line. […]

It’s interesting to see what the Press Corps thinks is important. It would appear that their frustration was caused by the fact that they lost a day or weekend to their families without having something to show […]

It’s all good as long as there are no government regulations that hinder freedom-loving fracking development on the site. Hopefully it will be downwind of a Koch brothers-owned coal-fired uranium enrichment plant. […]

Doesn’t help if you fire everyone who disagrees with you or presents you with evidence contrary to your fondest wishes. It appears to be a common problem for celebrities and thei entourages, kings and their […]

Obama’s first executive order on November 7, 2012:

Approve construction of the environmentally devastating Alberta tar sands pipeline.