Author: Fuzzy Curmudgeon

Jim Geraghty at NRO with the scoop on how the Dumbs are trying to hose the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
Sen. Roberts sounds like he would have made a great Majority Leader.

…would be doing the people in these places a favor.
(But Iraq needs to go first.)
Link via the Professor.

Collegiate themed caskets.
Make mine pine, thanks.

Doctor says I’m a fine specimen of over-40 humanity. Blood pressure acceptable, back getting better, need to lose weight. No damn sense of humor about weight in the medical profession.
Anyway, between that and installing the new laser printer, I’ve not had time to do much else today.
Oh, and in the process of installing the LJ, I knocked the power cord loose from the Linux box, which is why the blog has been down for a few hours — I just noticed it when I sat down and tried to log in. Oh well.

…too busy today. Go take a look at this blog while you’re waiting for more from my keyboard.
I might post later but I might not.

Scalia is speaking out about these recent stupid church/state decisions.

Although the Constitution says the government cannot “establish” or promote religion, the framers did not intend for God to be stripped from public life, Scalia said Sunday at a religious ceremony.

Absolutely.

Jonah in defense of the Skeptical Environmentalist.
I read this book, cover to cover, and it made a GREAT deal of sense to me. I wish my dad had lived long enough to read it, because he would have been nodding thoughtfully throughout, and saying, “I was saying that thirty years ago but nobody would listen to me.”
Global warming, my ass. I still remember global cooling. And where I live at the moment, I’m a lot more ready to believe the latter than I am the former.

Essentially the theme of this article by David Hogberg.
The man is not stupid. He’s got a Harvard MBA, and no matter how little I think of Harvard, that’s not an easy thing to get. Moreover, as far as I’m aware, your Daddy can’t buy you one…yet.

I don’t understand how educated people can sit there and have the gall to say that a “tax break for the rich” won’t help those of us in lower tax brackets.
Sure, I’d love to see my income tax decrease to like 15%. But that wouldn’t put any new jobs on the market.
The only way you put the economic blender on puree at this point is to let the people who make most of the money (and pay most of the taxes) keep more of what they make. Otherwise there’s no incentive for rich folks to go out and create jobs for people like you and me — and if they create enough of those jobs, then it becomes possible to lower taxes for the rest of us.
This is just simple Reaganomics. It worked in the 1980s and it would work now, but a shrill and vocal minority conveniently forgets about that, just like they forget that without Reagan’s tax cuts, the 1990s boom probably wouldn’t have occurred.
What really worries me is that the Fed is going to continue to cut rates, making it less and less desirable for Joe Blow to save money (and frankly at rates under 1%, it makes no sense for me to keep money in savings except insofar as it keeps me from having to pay bank fees every month), rather than pressing for cuts in the higher tax rates (and abolition of capital gains taxes). You need look no farther than Japan to find an economy where it has been painfully discovered that lowering interest rates to zero doesn’t cause stimulation. Japan has other problems that contribute to its sagging economy but certainly they’ve proven that zero interest rates doesn’t cause anyone any joy, nor does it give anyone incentive to invest.
The thing to do now is cut taxes for the rich — the people who create companies and jobs. Because if you cut my taxes, I guarantee I won’t be spending the savings to give anyone work.

That’s what J.C. Adams did. Steven Den Beste has the best comments I’ve seen so far on this.
(Steven also has some great points about the North Korean situation.)