Next move, seize private retirement accounts.

Democrats in the Senate on Thursday held a recess hearing covering a taxpayer bailout of union pensions and a plan to seize private 401(k) plans to more "fairly" distribute taxpayer-funded pensions to everyone.

Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), Chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) ( Read more... )

Larry Kudlow writes...

Somewhere in this massive immigration deal there’s a big increase in the number of visas for high skilled, well-educated individuals. Sen. Lieberman told us on the show last night that it would go from 65,000 to around 180,000. That’s a good thing.

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The only downside on this as Ramesh Ponnuru told me is that immigrant ( Read more... )

16-year-old blogger comes out to his parents, who enroll him in Refuge. He manages to post the "rules" of the program. Yet another example of people trying to create their own theme park where the laws of nature are discarded for their own fantasy ideal.
Poor kid.
I notice the 'tyranny' tag is immediately becoming one of my favorites. Ironically, I ( Read more... )

So the Schiavo autopsy is in, and of course it confirms what I and a whole bunch of examining doctors were saying all along. "The brain weighed 615 grams, roughly half of the expected weight of a human brain," he said. "This damage was irreversible, and no amount of therapy or treatment would have regenerated the massive loss of neurons."
But ( Read more... )

I've been reading things about the Soviet Union under Stalin, what really happened in China under Mao, and what's still going on in North Korea and Cuba and Zimbabwe under their respective dictators, and it strikes me that all of these dictators are really just attempting to turn their entire nations into theme parks for their own personal ( Read more... )

Yet another reason I don't follow objectivists in idolizing businessmen. SHANGHAI, China (AP) -- Chinese bloggers, even on foreign-sponsored sites, had better choose their words carefully -- the censors are watching.
Users of the MSN Spaces section of Microsoft Corp.'s new China-based Web portal get a scolding message each time they input words ( Read more... )