Best N.H. Dem Debate Performance In my opinion, the award goes to Peter Jennings, who displayed masterful control of himself by maintaining a perfectly straight face while asking the following: JENNINGS: Reverend Sharpton, I’d like to ask you a question about domestic policy, if you don’t mind… [G]ive us a little bit about your views […]
Membership Has its Privileges Especially when you’ve been around for a while. Earlier, I pointed out that the per capita earmark is only slightly higher for Red states than Blue states. At the time, I speculated that the Republican districts within states were getting the majority of the pork. For example, perhaps Sugarland (Tom DeLay) […]
100,000 There’s a slight chance that Angry Bear will get its 100,000th visitor sometime today; more likely, the meter will turnover sometime this weekend. 100,000 is not too bad for a bit under a year. If you’re excited by Angry Bear history, my first post was on 2/14/03 (my girlfriend was out of town then; […]
Public Service Announcement Scammers get better all the time. Everybody knows not to answer an email with their account information. But many might think it’s safe to visit PayPal’s website in response to an apparent email from PayPal. In any event, in the latest scam, the actual link is to pcypal.com, but the text is […]
Surprising In the last post, I mentioned that “I’d like to see a break down by district and party.” So I got the state-by-state data from Taxpayers for Common Sense and then aggregated to get a Red/Blue state breakdown of the earmarks: Surprisingly, the difference is actually very small, about 2.4% more per capita for […]
Omnibus Spending Bill Passes From CNN: WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate overcame Democratic delaying tactics Thursday and sent President Bush an overdue $373 billion bill financing a vast swath of government and bearing a bushel of victories for the White House. Senators approved the measure 65-28 a month after House passage. The bill finances agriculture, […]
Cheetos of Mass Destruction Well, not exactly. But Slacktivist does provide a great illustration of how the validity of a noun decreases with the number of adjectives appended to that noun. Patrick Hayden has another amusing take on WMDRPAs. AB
Health Savings Accounts Mark Schmitt has the definitive explanation of why HSAs are a bad idea: What the administration is doing, first with health savings accounts, which are now the law, and then with this [catastrophic insurance] proposal, is to confer enormous tax advantages on a type of insurance that is already advantageous, but only […]
More Then and Now Tonight’s Daily Show cited this quote from the 2002 SOTU (after 9/11 and, apparently, after there were already solid plans for invading Iraq): To achieve these great national objectives — to win the war, protect the homeland, and revitalize our economy — our budget will run a deficit that will be […]
Why Can’t I Come up With These? TBogg on Sen. Kennedy’s obvious disapproval of the SOTU: —Although I enjoyed Ted Kennedy and his head-shaking, I think making jerk-off motions with his fist while rolling his eyes would have been more effective. AB