Archive for August 23rd, 2011

Aug 23 2011

Surviving The 2011 Virginia Earthquake

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Well, that was an interesting day, to say the least. Like everyone else in and around DC this afternoon I was at my office desk working when I felt a shimmy run through my office. The first pulse was not enough to pull me immediately from my computer, but I looked out across the hall […]

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Aug 23 2011

Obama’s Support Collapses With Voters

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As I said many times, credibility is a fragile and fleeting resource in politics. Once you lose it, it tends to collapse rapidly, with only a few groupies hanging on as the rest of the voters move on. Obama is now in that kind of complete collapse, which is not surprising after his tone deaf […]

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Aug 23 2011

Wisconsin Unions Can’t Support Themselves

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[H/T to Ann Althouse for Picture] It turns out one of the strangest and clearly useless ‘unions’ I have ever heard of is now defunct – thanks Governor Scott Walker and the GOP legislature. It turns out that in Wisconsin, a program to help financially struggling but promising students become Teaching Assistants was co-opted by […]

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