Unca Darrell

MAY 7 / Quotation of the day

OUR CULTURED cousins, the Europeans -- role models for higher Dems -- hate math. So last weekend they . . .  

MAY 4 / Numbers

 $57,420,181,300,000

America's "total debt" at 12:06 p.m. CDT yesterday. That's $692,192 per family. Total debt is the combined debt of households, businesses, financial institutions, and local, state, and federal governments. It includes the national debt mentioned below.  

This number is scary enough, but it omits something that makes it scarier still: . . . 

APRIL 26 / Click . . . click . . . click . . .

THAT'S THE SOUND of the political ratchet moving America inexorably in the only direction in which the political ratchet works: toward welfare statism, and the cliff of fiscal disaster.

MAY 12 / Promises, promises, promises

EXCELLENT STUFF, as usual, from Robert Samuelson:

APRIL 11 / Steyn on U.S. insolvency

PRESIDENT OBAMA has run up more debt in three years than President Bush did in eight, and he plans to run up more still -- from ten trillion in 2008 to fifteen-and-one-half trillion now to 20 trillion and beyond. Onward and upward!

The president does not see this as a problem, nor [does] his party, and nor do at least fortysomething percent of the American people. The Democrats' plan is to have no plan, and their budget is not to budget at all. . . .

 

APRIL 6 / Numbers

Bogus numbers

Argentina's official inflation rate -- between 5 percent and 11 percent a year -- is a made-up number. It is so unreliable that the Economist now refuses to include it in economic tables. The real rate is at least twice what the government reports.

We are tired of being an unwilling party to what appears to be . . .

 

FEBRUARY 25 / Common sense has visited the Chronicle

The real question: Will common sense be invited to hang around?

James A. Baker, III, recently chatted up the brass, editorial writers, and others at the Houston Chronicle, offering something exotic, even foreign, to the Clever Ones at that newspaper: common sense. And the Clever Ones, believe it or not, were enraptured.

Good for them.  

FEBRUARY 10 / Unintended humor from the Clever Ones

THE SAME NEWSPAPER that endorsed Barak Hussein Obama for president . . . that cheered as that selfsame president spent every dollar he could beg, borrow, or tax . . . that has acquiesced in the ruination of the generations . . . that regularly mocks American citizens who object to all this . . . . yes, that newspaper . . . (let me catch by breath here) . . . 

That newspaper cannot possibly understand what hoot, a howl, an absolute laughfest it is to encounter an editorial like this one: 

 

JANUARY 18 / Is America in decline?

FOR MORE than two centuries, even before the formation of the United States, the answer has been no. To ask the question was a fool's errand. Despite recession and depression, despite wars and rumors of war, despite bad presidents and worse legislators and judges, despite it all, the longer trajectory was ever upward. Choose your own measure. Material prosperity. Life expectacy. International power. Better prospects for women and racial minorities. Up, up, up.

But is that still true?

DECEMBER 13 / The sky is falling. Let's . . .

. . . think really, really hard about it.

The Houston Chronicle supports Obama, Occupy, virtually every proposal from the left to take more dollars from taxpayers (or borrow it from our grandchildren) and spend it on God knows what, and, of course, most all proposed new state and federal regulations. But once a month or so, the most conservative guy . . .