Daily Archives: August 25, 2009

Gee, What If They Aren’t Un-American?

Posted on August 25, 2009 by Gaius

This is fairly shocking. The New York Times discovers that a lot of people who oppose ObamaCare are not raving lunatics – something the Times has not exactly been reporting before now. There are (as many of us have said … Continue reading →

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The Mandate Of Heaven

Posted on August 25, 2009 by Gaius

If you come here to the Crabitat and never actually click through to a linked article I post about and call a must read, I’d ask that you consider clicking through this time. This essay by Fouad Ajami in The … Continue reading →

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Pay No Attention To That Deficit Behind The Curtain

Posted on August 25, 2009 by Gaius

Economy: bad. Revenues: worse. Outlays: enormous. Deficit: exploding. Unemployment: thermonuclear. Answer? Spend even more, according to Barack Obama’s budget director, Peter “Pills All Around” Orszag. U.S. unemployment will surge to 10 percent this year and the budget deficit will be … Continue reading →

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After The (Fender) Bender

Posted on August 25, 2009 by Gaius

Comes the hangover. Car dealers are bracing for the hangover after their taxpayer-funded sales bender. Sales of automobiles are expected to plummet now that the cash for clunkers spigot has been turned off. After the heady rush of Clunkers sales, … Continue reading →

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