Category: Peoples Press Collective

It's for your own good, Fattie

It's for your own good, Fattie. This is the most accurate summary of recent moves by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Cambridge, Massachusetts Mayor Henrietta Davis to limit the maximum size of sodas or other sugary drinks sold within their fi… more »

IBD: Obama's litany of lies

Speaks for itself: http://news.investors.com/article/615581/201206201901/obama-tells-stories-to-support-radical-agenda.htm more »

Another bad day for SEIU

It's been a rough road for public sector unions lately, particularly with their having spent millions of dollars in a losing effort to recall Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker. A Supreme Court ruling released today in the case of Knox v Seiu is, if not a… more »

Bernanke Twists Asset Prices

Yesterday, Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke annouced the Fed's ectension of "Operation Twist" using a justification of weaker than expected economic performance. I, along with a few others affiliated with the Heartland Institute, commented o… more »

The Alice in Wonderland Stock Market

As a financial markets trader, it's hard for me lately not to feel that we're living in a Lewis Carroll-inspired stock market. Stock prices often move counter-intuitively, and with large price swings that have the distinct smell of "momentum traders" ra… more »

Eric Weissmann for Congress

For those of you who are Republicans living in Colorado's 2nd Congressional District, which includes the counties of Boulder, Larimer, Clear Creek, Gilpin, Summit, and Grand, along with the eastern part of Eagle County and the western part of Jefferson… more »

Thoughts on Wisconsin recall results

http://spectator.org/archives/2012/06/06/no-more-excuses more »

Farewell from Rossputin.com

Over the past couple of months, I have taken a few short vacations including missing days, even weekdays, of blogging, something which has been nearly unheard of on these pages since I started this blog in 2004. In the past, on the rare occasion that I… more »

Sullivan silliness

Andrew Sullivan, he of "The First Gay President" fame, has responded to a blog note of mine in which I, tongue in cheek, mentioned understanding "the temptation to waterboard" MSNBC host Chris Hayes who offered the worst of liberal gobbledygook about hi… more »

Domestic terrorists and media silence

Everyone needs to read this: http://spectator.org/archives/2012/05/29/terror-by-any-other-name And this: http://patterico.com/2012/05/25/convicted-bomber-brett-kimberlin-neal-rauhauser-ron-brynaert-and-their-campaign-of-political-terrorism/ more »