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Last Video for a While: Jon Stewart Rips Federal Budgeting

Jon Stewart conducts the best interviews. He’s funny but asks significant questions. Here he is interviewing the director of the Office of Management and Budget, Peter Orszag. (The interview was back in April.) The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Peter Orszag Pt. 1 www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political […]

How Can Any of You Take Voting Seriously At This Point?

Jon Stewart nails it: The Democrats not only control the White House and both houses of Congress, they have a supermajority and they still aren’t doing anything that American voters thought they were signing up for in 2006 and 2008. (And don’t gloat, Republicans: Remember when you blamed the Reagan deficits on those dastardly Democrats […]

Evangelicals Don’t Want Obama Messing With Their Kids!

It’s not a matter of politics, it’s because they really don’t want the kids to view the president of the United States as some kind of supreme leader, the way they do in totalitarian countries. (Video HT2LRC) This video disgusts me as both an American citizen and as a born-again Christian.

It’s Only Money

Krugman has left cap and trade for the moment to deal with government budget deficits. The man is fearless; look at his nonchalance in this post when he writes: “Finding 1 percent of GDP in higher taxes and/or spending cuts shouldn’t be that hard — and won’t be, if America has a sane political scene […]

The Coming Marijuana Legalization

Of all the predictions I’ve fired off on this blog in its short life, the one I’m most comfortable with–in terms of the risk/reward tradeoff in terms of geeconosphere reputation–is that the Obama administration will greatly liberalize the marijuana market. You’ve got hit shows about a white, upper middle class mom who sells pot, and […]

Curse Those Subprime Loans!

I was getting my car fixed up for the road trip to Greenville, SC tomorrow (Mises Circle on Saturday), and I was the only customer near the TV. So I flipped through the channels and decided CNBC was the least of 46 evils. They kept giving snippets of Bernanke’s testimony to some Congressional committee. The […]

Flu Vaccine Bask

Once again I ask (not beg) Free Advice readers for their help: What are the best websites giving pro and con arguments for the H1N1 vaccine? I was on a plane recently next to a woman who oversaw emergency planning for hospitals in San Diego (I think), and she was telling me matter-of-factly that I […]

Ron Paul on The Daily Show

I was literally taking planes, trains, and automobiles today. There was a Fox Business Live spot for me to discuss a new IER study, so I canceled my outbound flight from Baltimore, caught the MARC train down to DC, did the interview, then a private car took me back to Baltimore for a later flight. […]