Big Shock: Suddenly Deficit Spending Doesn’t Bother Krugman, Now That Democrats are in Power

John Hawkins notes Paul Krugman doing his usual double standards:

“[Robert] Rubin was one of the ablest Treasury secretaries in American history. But it’s now clear that while Rubinomics made sense in terms of pure economics, it failed to take

Stanley Kurtz makes an important point about Clinton and Obama, in the upcoming election in ’08, in light of the death of Gerald Ford, and the retrospectives that spring from it….

It’s clear in hindsight that Ford would have been

Jim Angle, last night:

Iran’s status as a Persian Gulf power fueled by oil revenue could collapse without any push from the U.S. or other nations. That according to a new study from the National Academy of Sciences which says

I mentioned a few days ago that Hillary was using Obama as a sheild, that the two of them were going to take all the air out of the Democrat primary races… but that she was going to need some

Former President Gerald Ford has died:

RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. (AP) – Former President Gerald R. Ford, who declared “Our long national nightmare is over” as he replaced Richard Nixon but may have doomed his own chances of election

Bruce has been playing this Predictions game for couple of years now, and it’s mildly amusing so I’ll give it a shot, again.

*Iraq- Direction:

Now that the Democrats have their way and have power to enforce their misbegotten policies,

Well, yes, for a large part, that’s kinda what it feels like. we just kinda slap it into the deep freeze until needed, sometime in November of next year, sorta like Austin Powers.

A short one, tonight, I’m not really

You’re right, Billy…   she’s not a genius.

OTOH, since both DavidL and myself have been saying the same thing for months now, perhaps Coyote will call US Geniuses, as well? The Blog could use the publicity…. (Chuckle) I mean, for

When a firebrand liberal judge makes pronouncements about those he or she sees as being to the right of him, the usual suspects will laud him or her as a ‘visionary’ and a ‘person of courage’.  THey’ll have no problem

It is a vast conspriacy. 

On Christmas Eve, I blogged about the “Female pay disparity :”

Fact, there is a pay disparity between males and females.  On average men earn more per hour than women. 

Myth, this disparity is

And here, dear reader, is why we fight; It’s the only thing they understand.

MOGADISHU, Somalia -AP- Islamic fighters attempting to wrest power from Somalia’s internationally recognized government retreated from the main front line early Tuesday, witnesses said, a day

Henke (who, with sanity kicking in, I find myself reading less of these days), notes Ted Rall, (whom I try to read never), calling for the banning of the Republican party.

Yeah, you’ve read correctly. Says Rall:

It’s

First of all, a progress report:

“Elephant”, my new server, (actually, my old one, reborn) which has had a heartbeat for a day or two, now is up and talking to the rest of the network. Even better… the 50

James Brown, the dynamic, pompadoured “Godfather of Soul,” whose rasping vocals and revolutionary rhythms made him a founder of rap, funk and disco as well, died early Monday, his agent said. He was 73. Brown was hospitalized

A Christmas Day message:  economic freedom means economic growth.   Not really a new message, but a message to which liberals are deaf.

From the Wall Street Journal:

In 2005, per capita personal income grew 31% faster in the 15