Friday, February 18, 2011

Daily Brief – 2/18/11

The republic can rest easy now -- "Obama's teleprompter escapes budget ax.

FL Students Protest After White Student Chosen to Lead Black Campus Group > Claim it’s not about multiculturalism but experience > Hmmmmmm!

So what’s The Dirty Little Secret About De-Funding Obamacare? > They already have some!

Uh Oh! Gallup polls out with employment and under-employment numbers at least 10% worse than Obama’s BLS! Who’s fudging the numbers?

Looks like bacon is once again the goal as the House funds the failed porculous COPS and Homeland firefighters programs with +$800 million!

Is America’s big stick “old and rotting”, withering in the 20 years since the end of the Cold War?

Why are politicians surprised when their bumbling proves Newton’s 3rd law of motion and the law of unintended consequences?

With Friends Like U.S.A., why does Israel need enemies?

Whatever happened to deflation? You'll remember only a few months ago the Federal Reserve used the fear of falling prices to justify its QE2 program of further monetary easing… The price index is up 1.6% in the last 12 months, but it is also accelerating—up 3.2% in the last six months and 3.9% at an annual rate in the past quarter.

For a sense of the kind of Egypt the Muslim Brotherhood and our liberals want, start with the Brotherhood’s motto: “ 'Allah is our objective; the Prophet is our leader; the Quran is our law; Jihad is our way; dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope."

Gov. Scott turned down Obama’s Florida Railroad Check. Driving to Tampa is cheaper and a whole lot less fiscally dangerous!


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Poke a liberal!

Praise Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet.

Sure, like his Commie predecessor Salvador Allende, he had his faults, but his economic legacy has made Chile the richest per-capita, healthiest, least corrupt country in South America. Liberals hate being told this. Their hero is the "martyred" Allende. But under Allende, inflation was running at 1,000 percent, whereas thanks to free market reforms introduced by Pinochet-taking advice from Milton Friedman's "Chicago Boys"-the Chilean economy thrived. We saw the results of this from two earthquakes-the one in Haiti in January 2010 that claimed nearly a quarter of a million lives; and the one in Chile a month later which, though 500 times more powerful, claimed just over 700 lives. Why? Because rich economies can afford to build earthquake-proof buildings. But impoverished ones dependent for their survival on international aid can't.
   Postcript: When Milton Friedman collected his Nobel Prize, he was heckled by leftists for having advised so repugnant a regime. He wryly noted that he had Given Communist dictatorships the same advice-but strangely no one attacked him for that.

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