Storm Pulse is a way to track the various weather events. Update: P Jackson of Housing Wire is writing for CR with this Calculated Risk and commenting on oil and insurance matters. (rdan-CR link fixed)

Continuing a series from Marginal Utility, link here:

Awhile back we had a series of posts about the causality of Social Security’s ‘unfunded liability’ in response to a comment by Jim Glass over at Andrew Bigg’s. The first post was XXXVI: $17 Trillion Backwards Transfer. Andrew answered back with Responding to Angry Bear: Where does the $17 trillion deficit come from? to which […]

Mark Thoma started a chain of posts on the efficacy of tax cuts that bears watching as research becomes published. Following the money apparently is more possible in this day and age. Richard Serlin (first here) followed up with two posts, the second here. Don Pedro of Economists4obama says in comments: I want to point […]

by cactus The Efficiency of the Private Sector Recently, the wife and I moved to a new state. When you do that, you need to get a new driver’s license, plus re-register your vehicles. The whole process, including taking the written (well, computerized) exam, from the moment we walked in until the moment we walked […]

Maybe this link has good enough real video information and transcripts on many issues…it does need filling in a bit for a national race. Any more credible collections put together? Update: Rdan just voted this post the best of Palin series on the internet.

hat tip to Movie Guy Here is part of what Presidential candidate Obama said on Friday about the Republican Vice Presidential candidate: Senator Obama called Governor Palin from his campaign bus on Friday afternoon (local time) and spoke with her for “several minutes,” campaign spokesman Robert Gibbs said.”He told her she would be a terrific […]

hat tip CoRev The famous Olympic skier Picabo Street (pronounced Pee-Ka-Boo) is not just an athlete…she is now a nurse currently working at an Intensive Care Unit of a large metropolitan hospital. She is not permitted to answer the hospital telephones any longer. It caused too much confusion when she would answer the phone and […]

Without further comment, since I’m trying to avoid figuring out how stupid the McCain Machine thinks female voters will be, even as their house organ (CNN) continues to declare that Obama is “not ready.”