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Pull the other one, it’s got bells on it.
Uncle Sam has recovered $4 billion of the estimated $60 to $90 billion in Medicare fraud, and claims bragging rights. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius touted the Affordable Care Act as one of the toughest anti-fraud laws in history. “The days when you could just hang out a shingle and start billing the Read more
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Brains per buck
The Center for American Progress has mapped every school district in the nation according to educational return on investment. How does your school district measure up? Tip from Joanne Jacobs. Read more
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“Kick me” Obama strikes again
Barack-O’s guest pianist played him for a chump. Can we swap him for some Chinese who don’t insult us to our faces? Update (25 January). Tommy Vietor, official White House Thumbsucking Doubletalker, explains to the hoi polloi that it was not an insult. Yeah, piss on my leg and tell me it’s raining. Too bad, Read more
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Doing jobs that white people can’t do
Hide the white man and you are in the Left’s blind spot. Read more
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Uh, I left my homework in my other backpack…
…I left my wallet in my other pants…I left my birth certificate in the Hawaiian archive. We may have busted our budget, but the last presidential election has guaranteed the nation an inexhaustible supply of shuck and jive. No wonder some folks become “Birthers.” Read more
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Why Texans think Californians are stupid, #3
Governor Moonbeam has appointed Linda Ronstadt as California’s official Secretary of Song. Tip from American Digest. Read more
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Time to cut the federal budget, Exhibit #1
HHS ponied up $766,000 to open an IHOP in a tony DC neighborhood? Hope and Change, indeed. make your own poster here Tip from the Instapundit. Follow his link to a good summary about that corn likker they’re putting in your gasoline. Read more
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OK, I’m done talking about AGW
Dr Richard Lindzen cooks the goose of the Climate Changers: Inevitably in climate science, when data conflicts with models, a small coterie of scientists can be counted upon to modify the data. Thus, Santer, et al (2008), argue that stretching uncertainties in observations and models might marginally eliminate the inconsistency. That the data should always Read more
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$5 gas?
Lots of bloviating (and wisecracking) about “What Would Happen If You Woke Up To $5/Gallon Gasoline?” over at The Truth About Cars. The answer is much simpler than anyone has mentioned. Not a g*ddamned thing. It was $4.989 a gallon when you went to bed, a$$hole, and nothing besides another record wave of home foreclosures Read more
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Oh dear, am I too minimalist?
Here’s a lady who has the very definition of a princess problem: “I was stressed that I was not up on Food Network enough to get the high-brow insider references.” I’d say you’re a bit far from total minimalism if you’re living on a farm with access to the Food Network. Rule of Thumb among Read more
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