Category Archives: Bad Ideas

No. Not Everyone Can Do Political Theory

Posted on January 28, 2011 by Rich Horton

This one is going to hurt the old brain. It begins with CNN publishing the following opinion piece from a law professor improbably named Carl T. Bogus: There’s no right of revolution in a democracy “A well regulated Militia, being … Continue reading →

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Hey, It’s Green To Recycle

Posted on January 26, 2011 by Gaius

It seems Obama borrowed heavily from failed Michigan governor Jennifer Granholm in his SOTU speech. In fact, he echoed whole trains of thought from a speech Granholm gave five years ago – before her policies drove Michigan into the ditch … Continue reading →

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Negative Returns

Posted on January 25, 2011 by Gaius

Amity Shlaes: Private-sector jobs will be created. That’s the argument President Barack Obama will present tonight in his State of the Union address to justify his plan for any federal spending increases. The president will pay lip service to the … Continue reading →

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Hey, Where Did The Stimulus Go?

Posted on January 24, 2011 by Gaius

Essentially nowhere. John F. Cogan and John B. Taylor explain the details in a rather long but extremely readable analysis over at Commentary. I’ll send interested readers over there to read the whole thing, since excerpting it would not do … Continue reading →

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Our Chinese Friends

Posted on January 23, 2011 by Gaius

So, the White House could not even vet the music selected by the Chinese pianist who performed at the state dinner for the Chinese president? It would appear that they could not be bothered to do so and allowed a … Continue reading →

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“…The Bureaucracy Always Expands. It Never Contracts…”

Posted on January 20, 2011 by Gaius

The words of David Williams, vice president of policy for watchdog Citizens Against Government Waste. He is commenting in a story from Fox News that reports that there are some 1,000 government “advisory committees” with some 74,000 members burning up … Continue reading →

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Damage

Posted on January 19, 2011 by Gaius

Sally Pipes in the New York Post: Repeal of ObamaCare can’t come soon enough — as several damaging provisions are set to take effect this year. For starters, it has effectively stopped the construction of physician-owned hospitals throughout the country. … Continue reading →

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ObamaFraud

Posted on January 18, 2011 by Gaius

The true costs of ObamaCare are staggering: The fantasy of deficit reduction from the ACA is also built on a $410 billion tax increase over the coming decade, and a flood of revenue in the years after built on cynically … Continue reading →

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Something To Think About

Posted on January 18, 2011 by Gaius

Thomas Sowell: Politics being what it is, we are sure to hear all sorts of doomsday rhetoric at the thought of cutbacks in government spending. The poor will be starving in the streets, to hear the politicians and the media … Continue reading →

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Backfire, Part The Third

Posted on January 17, 2011 by Gaius

Something you have seldom seen here at the Crabitat, a link to a Fox News story (its not that I don’t sometimes read Fox – or even watch the odd newscast from them. I just have very rarely actually linked … Continue reading →

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Backfire, Part Two

Posted on January 17, 2011 by Gaius

Mickey Kaus: Why would Republican politicians ever fall into this “too hot” trap? Because hot rhetoric gins up their base. But now that they’ve won the House in an off year election, GOP pols don’t need to please the base … Continue reading →

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Tax Hikes

Posted on January 16, 2011 by Gaius

Americans for Tax Reform have compiled a comprehensive list of tax hikes included in ObamaCare: Next week, the U.S. House of Representatives will be voting on an historic repeal of the Obamacare law.  While there are many reasons to oppose … Continue reading →

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Blame Derrida!

Posted on January 12, 2011 by Rich Horton

It should be clear, by this point, to any rational person that the Left in this country has simply lost its collective mind. The “reality based community” has been hysterically shrieking for the past five days how Jared Loughner was … Continue reading →

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Camp Obama

Posted on August 30, 2010 by Gaius

Apparently, Kathleen Sebelius is either completely ignorant of the connotation or simply does not care. Because she cheerfully announced that the administration has a lot of “reeducation” to do on the won’s health care “reform”. With a number of polls … Continue reading →

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The Hamas Seal Of Approval

Posted on August 16, 2010 by Gaius

Hamas has come out solidly in favor of the “Ground Zero Mosque”. A leader of the Hamas terror group yesterday jumped into the emotional debate on the plan to construct a mosque near Ground Zero — insisting Muslims “have to … Continue reading →

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