What numbers are you looking at? People are not buying. Government numbers are “adjusted for seasonal factors but not for price changes.” Seasonal changes are meaningless when you are looking at year-to-year […]

Did you read the part of the report which said that the reduction of this year’s deficit was “mostly as a result of higher-than-expected revenues and an increase in payments to the Treasury by Fannie Mae and […]

You’ve probably worked for 501(c)(3) organizations which may not engage in politics at all, and you are referring to periodic reviews.

The present issue is with the approval process for new applications for […]

Or put a comma in the one sentence they did write.

I don’t think that “in deep crisis,” which would imply impending explosion of disaster, is quite the right term; more like “descending into irrelevancy.” He certainly has dropped the charm offensive in favor of a […]

From a method to “cool homes by extracting energy from water piped through underground lines” he leaps to the magical “Solar Trap” which is presented in this article with no description other then the […]

In most cases a person attempting to “defend himself” with a gun that he purchased for the purpose will either be unable to fire or will miss, and in many cases will have the gun taken away from him and he himself […]

So what? Obama was born in Kenya.

“Slightly more voters say they’ll vote Democratic in the 2014 congressional elections than Republicans, bucking a historical trend of the president’s party losing seats in his sixth year, a new poll Wednesday […]

Brings to mind a movie I saw some time ago. Young man dreads coming out to his father and finally does so. His father replies, “I’m relieved to know that you are aware of it.”

No, but it is eight years away from its hurricaine, as opposed to six months, or fifteen years. Comparisons are tricky things. What did Roatan look like six months after its hurricaine?

I’m not sure I get your point. You talk about our seeming inability to rebuild after 9/11 and Sandy and follow with, “And then, there’s Roatan,” comparing us to an island which you describe as “aging and decaying […]

Over at various Obamabot sites they are filled at glee with how screamingly funny and politically devastating Obama was. I watched the whole thing and, like many others in the real world, thought he was just […]

What determines the ordering of posts on the Agonist? We have a post dated 4/22 at the top, followed by one dated 4/20, then 4/23 and another from 4/20. Most blogs have the newest post at the top, but here we must […]

Aurora, Sandy Hook, Tucson and Columbine were all violence with guns, while Boston was a bomb attack. Not saying that justifies use of the word “terrorism,” in my mind it is insufficient for that, but it does make […]

Well, if they ask the British, the reply will be short and brutal. “Just get slaughtered on the way out.”

Indeed, but all of this was resolved by ACA, the greatest liberal legislation to pass since FDR freed the slaves.

Wait. Maybe not. There was that deal with the drug companies prior to legislative process that […]

“he is widely admired for easing the Iraq insurgency and extricating the country from a disaster.” Oh please. The surge was political nonsense. He took advantage of buying off the Sunni tribesmen of Anbar […]

“#2 – Intelligence – he has that.”

Not as much as he is credited with. Much of his work is cribbed from the work of others, and he takes credit for accomplishments of his subordinates. I have spoken to two […]

“…the city actually acknowledged responsibility for the actions of its police officers.”

I’m not sure that can actually be said to be the case. They settled a lawsuit, accepting a penalty in lieu of pursuing […]