Posts Tagged ‘Hotair’
49% Say Tax Cuts Help The Economy
49% Say Tax Cuts Help The Economy Sign up for free daily updates Saturday, April 21, 2012 Voters’ perceptions that tax cuts are beneficial to the economy have fallen under 50% for the first time in almost four years. But support for government spending remains low. Forty-nine percent (49%) of Likely U.S. Voters now say, generally speaking, tax cuts help the economy. A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey finds that 22% say tax cuts hurt the economy, while 18% say they have no impact. Another 10% are not sure. (To see survey question wording, click here.) (Want a free daily e-mail update? If it's in the news, it's in our polls). Rasmussen Reports [...]
Bank of America tells gun manufacturer it no longer wants their business?
I’m thinking there has to be more to this story, not because I doubt that there are lefty corporate execs who find guns and gun owners loathsome but because from a business standpoint this is the highest of high insanity. My strong suspicion from years of following news on the right is that gun enthusiasts are the single most passionate interest group in conservative America. The barest whiff of some form of new regulation becomes an instant sensation online. If I ran a business they’d be the very last lobby I’d want to cross, just because they’re ready, willing, and able to organize a mighty effective boycott. Surely BOA, a company that’s headquartered in a southern city, knows the shinolastorm they’d be inviting if they pulled something like this. And yet, here we [...]
Democrats debut compelling, forward-looking new message
Via Powerline. Remember that story about how Obama’s campaign was looking for a new slogan? I think they’ve found it. Note that this is the bumper sticker they’re giving away free when you sign up on their site. Of all the messages they could have chosen — “Universal health care, finally,” “Bin Laden is dead and GM is alive,” “End the war on women,” or even the basic “Four more years” — they zeroed in on … this. Either they’re awfully cynical about the sort of branding that appeals to their base (and by “cynical” I of course mean “savvy”) or they’ve targeted this slogan as the one they most want to see on car bumpers coast to coast. There’s a nifty metaphor for public disillusionment with Obama. From Hope and Change in ’08 to “at least [...]
Hot girls with problems identify new problem: Total lack of musical ability
Believe it or not, my friends, this inane palate cleanser got more traffic yesterday than any other post on the site. Do you know how much it hurts to realize that? I sit here for hours on end sweating over deadly serious subjects like Obama eating dogs and yet a throwaway post about random Internet silliness cleans up in page views. But okay. If that’s what you want, that’s fine. No more posts about Obama chowing down on Chow Chows. From now on, we’re keeping it light. Two clips for you here of the Web’s newest superstars, who are keeping their identities semi-secret in order to minimize the ridicule they have to deal with, I guess. Exit question per the CNN clip: So this is kinda sorta a joke to them, yes? Quote: “Well, we enjoy writing funny lyrics and songs and we decided [...]
Video: Obama dog-eating meme reaches its inevitable conclusion
A meme’s not really a meme on the Internet until it gets its very own “Downfall” parody so here’s the “dogeater-in-chief” gag being enshrined in the pantheon before your very eyes. I’m expecting a “Hitler reacts to that terrible ‘hot girls’ song” clip to hit YouTube too before the week is out so keep watching this space for that. Over at HuffPo, Columbia University prof Lincoln Mitchell is taking the “Romney put Seamus in a kennel on the roof” story … very seriously indeed: For many voters, treating a dog this way is unimaginable and could only be done by somebody who has a problem empathizing with others. For these voters it is not hard to make the leap that the kind of man who could hose off the sick, family dog and keep driving is also the kind of man who [...]
The most atheist country in the world is…
…no longer a country. The surveys found: Atheism is strongest in northwest European countries such as Scandinavia and the former Soviet states (except for Poland). The former East Germany had the highest rate of people who said they never believed in God (59 percent); in comparison, 4 percent of Americans had that response. The country with the strongest belief is the Philippines, where 94 percent of those surveyed said they always had believed in God. In the United States, that response came from 81 percent of the people surveyed. Although by most measures, belief in God is gradually declining worldwide, it is increasing in Russia, Slovenia and Israel. In Russia, comparing the difference between those who believe in God but hadn’t previously, and those who don’t believe [...]
Romney: This election is about jobs, not about Obama eating dogs
C’mon. It’s a little bit about Obama eating dogs. The data doesn’t lie, my friends. The sad truth: A few more months of weak job growth and The One might actually prefer an election about dog-eating. Mitt Romney today asserted that the general election will be about “jobs not dogs,” when asked by a radio host today about the media’s focus on his former dog Seamus and the president’s admission that he once ate dog meat. “This campaign is ultimately going to become about jobs not dogs,” said Romney in an interview with Bill Cunningham on WLW radio in Ohio. “You recognize of course that some members of the media, and certainly the DNC and the White house itself are going to do everything in their power to divert the attention of the voter from the failure of the president [...]
Bad news: Obama used to eat dog meat; Update: Romney, Obama staff now arguing over dog-eating on Twitter
By popular request. If the Party Of Ideas™ is actually going to devote a chunk of this campaign to something as stupid as this, I guess we’ll have to play ball. Jim Treacher, who’s having endless fun with it, flags the key passage from “Dreams from My Father”: With Lolo, I learned how to eat small green chill peppers raw with dinner (plenty of rice), and, away from the dinner table, I was introduced to dog meat (tough), snake meat (tougher), and roasted grasshopper (crunchy). But wait, wasn’t he just a kid at the time, partaking in the normal culinary customs of Indonesia? Well, guys, that’s what campaigns are for — to hash out the important issues. Like this one. Incidentally, there’s a method to the Democratic madness here. From Byron York’s recent piece: In late [...]
Important reminder: Hot girls have problems too
Via BuzzFeed, HuffPo, Gawker, and various other blogs and Tumblrs, I’m thinking this will reach 10 million views on YouTube by, oh, say, noon on Thursday. How bad is it? Bad enough that the producers felt obliged to issue a disclaimer: Old Bailey Productions did not create any of the audio or lyrics for this video. We produced the video as a favor for a younger sibling of one of our friends. People are comparing them to Rebecca Black but “Friday” was an earnest if painful attempt at homemade tween pop. This is more a case of kidding on the square — I think. It almost seems designed to go viral: Two rich girls in the Hilton/Kardashian mold (they’re in a limo, no?) singing an impossibly dumb song about how hot they are? Pure magic. I’m surprised Paris and Kim didn’t think of [...]
Video: Do women earn less than men?
Happy National Equal Pay Day! Yes, it’s a holiday — and Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz has already marked the occasion with an unsubtle jab aimed at GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney. The National Committee on Pay Equity (yes, that exists, too) started Equal Pay Day in 1996 to call attention to the gender wage gap. Here’s the idea: It would take the average working woman all of 2011 plus 2012 up to today, April 17, to earn what the average man would earn in just 2011. That proves that women often occupy lower-paying jobs than men — but does it really prove that women don’t receive equal pay for equal work? Not necessarily. As LearnLiberty’s Steve Horwitz explains in this video, four crucial differences in the way men and women approach [...]
