Via Matthew Yglesias, we see this tibit of idiocy: The Bush administration ruled today that United States computer chip makers and catfish farmers were subjected to unfair foreign competition and ordered stiff tariffs on imports of South Korean computer chips and Vietnamese catfish. The Commerce Department rulings upheld, with minor adjustments, preliminary tariff determinations that …
Republican Stupidity
Orrin Hatch Has Lost His Mind
I am about a step away from moving to Montana and living in a shack in the woods. I can no longer take the incessant stupidity emanating from both sides of the aisle in the House and Senate. We don’t deserve to have these people as leaders. How did this happen? At any rate, here …
Idiotic Recall
I hate this idea. Impeachment of Clinton for lying under oath was one thing (and TROLLS- do not try to turn this thread into a Clinton impeachment discussion), but simply deciding that you don’t like a governor and trying to have a ‘re-do’ strikes me as overtly partisan and a subversion of the process (I …
Jerks
With all the talk about Hillary Clinton, I should point out that immature, childish, jerk-like behavior is not limited to Democrats: Idaho Sen. Larry Craig cleared the way for the Senate to approve the promotions of 127 Air Force captains and majors, but will continue to stall promotions of higher-ranking officers in a showdown over …
Why I Don’t Trust Government, Part 1228236
My advisor in grad school once told me that you “can give a monkey a hammer, but you can’t be sure he’ll use it on nails.” So it seems with our Justice Department: The Justice Department has begun using its expanded counterterrorism powers to seize millions of dollars from foreign banks that do business in …
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Information, Please
One of the most annoying things about this administration is that they have been so wildly successful at slowing the flow of information. Mike McCurry and company would have loved to have had this amount of success. The problwm with this isthat it leaves the rest of us in the dark, and no one knows …
Barnett on Bennett
Randy Barnett hammers Bennett. And he is right. I can’t even decide what to quote. Go read the whole thing.