No Show Today

There will not be a show today.  I will return after Thanksgiving.

 

Congress’ Joint Economic Committee claims that the cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is about $1.6 trillion over six years.  Just for comparison, Social Security and Medicare cost about $1.8 trillion every year.

 

President Bush vetoed a spending bill yesterday, accusing Democrats of spending like “a teenager with a new credit card.”  Too little, too late for Republicans in 2008.

 

As if Mercer’s campus outrage towards me wasn’t enough, now Hispanics in Chandler, Arizona are upset over an accurate description of a rapist.  Why?  Because he was described as a Hispanic, which is racial profiling.

 

Here’s a column in the Wall Street Journal about all of this “income inequality” BS.

 

Tales from socialized medicine:  Only with government health care would there be cockroaches on operating tables and women having miscarriages in hospital bathrooms.

 

Four-month-old babies are attending gym classes in London now.  Probably so that they will be eligible for health care; remember, fat people are the ones who lose out in the rationing.

 

Iranian police have issued a list of “vices” such as makeup as part of a morality crackdown in that country.  No wonder most of their internet searches are about sex.

 

Dick Armey writes that Hillary will win because the Republicans have forsaken their limited-government principles.

 

Gas prices are going up.  Why?  Because the greedy OPEC cartel refuses to increase output.  They say an output increase is not necessary.  Why again is oil not pumping out of Iraq?

 

John Edwards has a new redistribution of wealth scheme:  this time, he wants to force employers to give their employees eight weeks of paid time off each year.  I think Edwards should just move to France.

 

Warren Buffet is on his GDS high-horse again, this time supporting the estate tax.

 

A teacher in Spokane, Washington remains on the government school payroll a year after being caught twisting the nipples of teenage boys in the school bathroom, among other offenses.

 

Some members of the Georgia House want to remove “Crazy Aunt” Cynthia McKinney’s name from a stretch of I-285.

 

Women have given up Tupperware parties in exchange for Taser parties.