WHY DO WE ELECT IDIOTS

WHY DO WE ELECT IDIOTS WHO DON’T UNDERSTAND ’ECONOMICS’ ‘BUSINESS’ OR ‘LABOR’ REALITY? Brown seeking to raise minimum wage to $10.10 More than one million Ohio workers would be impacted by proposed legislation to increase the federal minimum wage, according to Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) FREEDOM IS SLAVERY Martin Wolf here is responding to the charge, made conspicuously by Naomi Klein [also Pres. Obama, Mayor Bloomberg & Michelle Obama], that corporations’ advertising and logos impose – or are a sign of – some sort of slavery over consumers: This charge – that corporations own customers – is another example of the lie that freedom is slavery. We are free to make choices, however. Insisting upon anything else demeans us. It is because we are free that corporations need to seduce us. Logos exist, therefore, not because corporations are strong, but because they are so weak. YOU CAN TRUST THE GOVERNMENT WITH YOUR INFORMATION: Missouri Secretly Shares Entire CCW List With Feds Against State Law. ED MORRISSEY ON Obama’s Budget Failure. “Let’s start with the bottom line. Obama proposes to spend $3.78 trillion dollars in FY2014, the highest level of spending ever.” “THIS’LL PLAY WELL WITH HIS BASE: The Hill: Gun control legislation gets a big boost from Sen. Toomey.”. Idiot Republican thinks he can cooperate with Obama Administration regardless of the wishes of those who elected him. OBAMACARE UPDATE: Smoking Is a ‘Preexisting Condition.’ It’s as if the whole thing was just a scam intended to kill private insurance or something. QUOTE OF THE DAY: Most of the rhetoric from the anti-gun fringe in the past few months is coming from babbling idiots who don’t know the difference between a rifle stock and a penny stock. It is impossible to craft “sensible” legislation regarding a topic about which one has no knowledge whatsoever. IOWAHAWK: Yours, Mine, And Ours. One of the creepier features of lefty language is the application of possessive pronouns. “My” is for rights (real or imagined), “your” is for responsibilities, “our” is for the stuff in my bank account they want to take. Unless it’s the case of “our responsibility” in which case they actually mean “your responsibility.” As the old saying goes, “what’s mine is mine, what’s yours is negotiable.” Nowhere is this linguistic claim-jumping more bloodcurdling than when they apply it to actual human beings: “our workers,” “our seniors,” and especially “our children.” Oh, Melissa Harris-Perry? I have a rule. Unless you’re my wife, there ain’t no such thing as “our children.” MICHAEL WALSH: Perils Of A Politically Correct Pentagon. “The brass at the Pentagon seems hell-bent on turning the world’s most powerful military into an arm of the PC Police, a fresh field for ‘politically correct’ bureaucrats.”