Random Stuff

Some random articles of interest from the Journal:

• How Congress Can Stop the EPA's Power Grab - WSJ
• Obama's Detainee Mess - WSJ

Budget related news:

• Confessions of a State Stimulus Czar - WSJ
• The Right Way to Balance the Budget - WSJ

High Taxes Equals High Emmigration

Results of the census are in and its not good for tax loving liberal states.

• States Taxing Themselves To Death - DickMorris.com
• Take My Congressman--Please - WSJ

Something else that I find completely ironic. We now, thanks Julian "Douchebag" Assange, have access to hundreds of thousands of classified documents that were never meant for public eyes. Now, admittedly, I have not heard of any seriously damning reports that gave away vital intelligence, but it certainly destroyed our diplomatic standing across the globe. This all strikes me as silly considering we cannot even see President Obama's birth certificate. I'm not saying he's not an American citizen, but something as simple as a birth certificate should easily be produced. Which brings me to this article on Hawaii's governor. He wants to see what can be done to divulge more information on Obama's birth. One statement caught my attention:

"What bothers me is that some people who should know better are trying to use this for political reasons," Abercrombie told the Los Angeles Times last week. "Maybe I'm the only one in the country that could look you right in the eye right now and tell you, 'I was here when that baby was born.'"

Here's the problem. That statement is completely ambiguous on 2 accounts. First, he refers to "that baby." In context we are to assume that means Obama. But in the vain of Bill Clinton, he could easily parse that to mean anyone. The second thing, let's assume Obama really was born in Indonesia or Africa or wherever the conspiracy theorists think he was born. Assuming that to be true, is Abercrombie's statement false? NO! Its still true, all he is saying is that HE was in Hawaii when Obama was born... wherever that was.

More Elected Official Incompetence

State governments continue to spend money like drunken sailors (no offense to drunken sailors) and push our commitments further and further into the future. It's just despicable. The second link below is a direct result of the nonsense in the first.

• State House Shell Games - WSJ
• A Nation in Motion - WSJ

So, is there an area that the government hasn't taken over completely or at the least heavily regulated in the last 2 1/2 years? Wall St, student loans, the auto industry, 1/8th of the economy with ObamaCare, and now the internet. This is absolutely insane.

• The Net Neutrality Coup - WSJ

The Washington DC Cesspool

I was mentioning today that we are currently in a time known as a "lame duck" Congress. I heard that a Gallup poll from last week showed that the 111th Congress has an approval rating of just 13%, the lowest in Gallup history. In light of that, can't we just call them the "lame" Congress?

So, in that vein of ineptness, less see why their rating is so low. Maybe this has something to do with it:

• The Wind Subsidy Bubble - WSJ
• Republicans Kick the Spending Dope - WSJ

Oh, and you thought the Congress was bad. Well, its not limited to elected officials. Its a blight upon the whole city apparently.

• The FCC's Threat to Internet Freedom - WSJ
• FCC Dems Narrow Net-Neutrality Gaps - National Journal

This article about made me puke. Obama is an absolute foreign policy imbecile.

• WikiLeaks, Honduras and the U.S. - WSJ

Now This Is Hope

ObamaCare took another blow today in Virginia. Let's hope the remaining dominoes fall in like manner:

• ObamaCare Ruled Unconstitutional - Bloomberg
• FLASHBACK: When Pelosi Asked about Consitutionality - CNS News
• Court Strikes at Health Law - WSJ

UPDATES 12/24/10:

• Congress's Monstrous Legal Legacy - WSJ