Dec
15

Grassley: I’m not backing down on FCC holds until I get the LightSquared documents

"I guess this makes me part of the 99.6 percent."


It didn’t take long for Sen. Charles Grassley to comment on the floor of the Senate about his holds on two presidential nominees for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), holds he placed in order to pressure the agency to produce documents on the LightSquared project. Grassley has tried for seven months to discover why the [...]

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Oct
18

Celebrated redistributionists discover healthy respect for private property

The way of the world.


The lesson in this story, besides that irony is often delicious?  Redistributionism always looks better when you don’t own anything yourself (via JWF): Occupy Wall Street protesters said yesterday that packs of brazen crooks within their ranks have been robbing their fellow demonstrators blind, making off with pricey cameras, phones and laptops — and even [...]

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Jul
31

Minority Rules: Scientists Discover it Only Takes 10% of the Population to Change the Beliefs of Society

In this visualization, we see the tipping point where minority opinion (shown in red) quickly becomes majority opinion. Over time, the minority opinion grows. Once the minority opinion reached 10 percent of the population, the network quickly changes as the minority opinion takes over the original majority opinion (shown in green). Image credit: SCNARC/Rensselaer Polytechnic … Read more
Jul
29

Senate Democrats’ press conference: These wingnuts sure are obstructionist

Blame.


Alternate headline: “Democrats surprised to discover Senate’s filibuster rule.” You know, I actually had a glimmer of sympathy for Reid last night when the GOP was obsessing over Boehner’s bill knowing full well that it would be instantly dead in the Senate. It was a waste of precious time with the ceiling deadline looming, but [...]

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Sep
23

Kansas: Waking up to discover the mortgage market was a giant criminal enterprise