Monthly Archives: January 2009

The Best Judge of How to Spend Your Money

By patrick | Published: January 26, 2009
While defending the current stimulus plan, Paul Krugman makes a ridiculous argument. [W]rite off anyone who asserts that it’s always better to cut taxes than to increase government spending because taxpayers, not bureaucrats, are the best judges of how to spend their money. Here’s how to think about this argument: it implies that we should shut down [...]
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Children of Hamas

By patrick | Published: January 26, 2009
I must have been sick on “army crawl day” in grade school. When people tell you that both sides in the middle east conflict want peace, show them what Hamas is teaching their kids.
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The Next Right Same as The Old Right

By patrick | Published: January 25, 2009
I was hoping that the post “Putting the ‘Next’ Into ‘Next Right’: Retooling vs. Restructuring” would offer a proper defense of capitalism. This is the issue that lost McCain the election and the Right needs to be “retooled” to understand and explain the moral right to free markets. Unfortunately, I found the same consequentialism that [...]
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MSM Still Dying

By patrick | Published: January 25, 2009
The internet has already overtaken newspapers and the protracted demise of the medium is given another nudge as internet giant Google ends its print ad program. In the last few months, we’ve been taking a long, hard look at all the things we are doing to ensure we are investing our resources in the projects that [...]
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Former French President Fails to Surrender to Poodle

By patrick | Published: January 22, 2009
He never stood up to “unpredictable animals” prone to “frenzied fits” and “vicious, unprovoked attacks” before. I wonder why he started now? Maybe it’s never too late to become a calm, assertive leader. Former French President Jacques Chirac was rushed to a hospital after being mauled by his pet dog who is being treated for depression, [...]
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Just a Theory in Mississippi

By patrick | Published: January 22, 2009
Representative Chisim of Mississippi has proposed “an act to require the state board of education to include certain language explaining that evolution is a theory in the inside front cover of certain public school textbooks.” Check out the PDF here or there. The State Board of Education shall require every textbook that includes the teaching of [...]
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Vietnam Thinking

By patrick | Published: January 21, 2009
William McGurn says that Bush’s Real Sin Was Winning in Iraq. Mr. Bush’s disfavor in Washington owes more to his greatest success. Simply put, there are those who will never forgive Mr. Bush for not losing a war they had all declared unwinnable. Here in the afterglow of the turnaround led by Gen. David Petraeus, it’s easy [...]
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Washington Is Killing Silicon Valley

By patrick | Published: January 21, 2009
This WSJ article from before the holidays shows the effects only government can have on an industry. According to the National Venture Capital Association, in all of 2008 there have been just six companies that have gone public. Compare that with 269 IPOs in 1999, 272 in 1996, and 365 in 1986. That’s quite a change and [...]
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Don’t Go Nowhere Y’all

By patrick | Published: January 20, 2009
Did you see the Grammys tonight? I did. After grabbing a quick bite and watching last night’s 24, I flipped over to ABC to find the self-love so typical of celebrity and so typical of award shows. P Diddy, Sting, Mary J.; everyone was there to pat themselves on the back and get screen time. [...]
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Riding the Bike at 15° Below

By patrick | Published: January 16, 2009
It was a chilly day to ride the bike into work. And I had to walk through snow for nearly a mile of the 8 mile journey. But it gave me a chance to try out a mask I got for snowboarding which worked well, and the scene was so nice I had to stop [...]
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