The irony is more than I can stand. You must read this.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324669104578203613386495482.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_AboveLEFTTop


I got the first $50 bucks for his legal defense fund.

This is exactly why the gun nuts will correctly fight new gun control measures.

E. J. Dionne does us all the favor of coming right out and saying that banning assault rifles is the objective. Thus his mention of Australia. That is what they did in the 1990s. We owe him for his honesty. But note the picture of the Australian buy back program below. See your assault weapon/rifle there? Sure you do. It is your shot gun you use to go duck hunting.

Nobody needs an AR-15 or a 30 shot clip. But depending on how you define functionality, you might be talking about my hunting shot gun......."I'm not talking about your hunting guns"....oh yes you are. And that is a huge mistake.



http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ej-dionne-jr-will-we-forget-newtowns-kids/2012/12/19/c1384f52-4a13-11e2-ad54-580638ede391_story.html

Merry Christmas to all. A modern nativity story.

http://www.flixxy.com/digital-christmas-story.htm

Nominal GDP targeting in a nut shell.

http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/monetary-policy-should-target-nominal-gdp-growth-by-jeffrey-frankel

This is surreal.

http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-poverty-trap-in-france.html

Hmmmm...this is an interesting connection of the dots.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324001104578161501124560508.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_AboveLEFTTop

Duck and cover in LA.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323981504578175210970899962.html#mod=djemEditorialPage_t

Who said dat?

"Our true choice is not between tax reduction, on the one hand, and the avoidance of large federal deficits on the other. It is increasingly clear that no matter what party is in power, so long as our [needs] keep rising, an economy hampered by restrictive tax rates will never produce enough revenues to balance our budget—just as it will never produce enough jobs or enough profits."

We need more cowbell.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323981504578175693687046384.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop

Don't like French taxes? Move 4 furlongs into Belgium.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324024004578172970654005206.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_AboveLEFTTop

Look at the map....it is hilarious the way the French (and Californians, New Yorkers, et al.) think.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estaimpuis

2001 versus 2010...Note: too much bread, wine and cheese makes you a fat bastard.