AP: Shovel-Ready Projects Accomplish Bupkis
That’s nada, bupkis, zippo, as in next to worthless.
And this is coming from the Obama-loving AP:
WASHINGTON - Ten months into President Barack Obama’s first economic stimulus plan, a surge in spending on roads and bridges has had no effect on local unemployment and only barely helped the beleaguered construction industry, an Associated Press analysis has [...]
Van Jones: How the Times missed the story
Kyle Smith devotes a hilarious New York Post column to the New York Times’s dereliction in the case of Van Jones. The Times somehow missed the controversies that preceded and led to Jones’s departure in part because, well, they were a little short-staffed in the Washington office. Smith writes:
Granted, the Times must devote [...]
Our Take on That Whole Big Sarah Palin Thing with Ace of Spades and Ed Morrissey, as Filtered Through Our Man Karl
Karl — that Hot Air guy who sometimes throws a crumb or two to Patterico (and never even once to me, the villain!) — reposted on Patterico’s Pontifications what he had already reposted on Hot Air (with some commentary in the identical posts): Ace of Spades’ comment in one of the threads of his [...]
1934 All Over Again
Many of you have no doubt seen this cartoon that appeared in the Chicago Tribune in 1934. It is complex in a way that few contemporary cartoons are, but otherwise it could have been printed today: “Spend! Spend! Spend under the guise of recovery–Bust the government–Blame the capitalists for the failure.” Click to [...]
