Breakfast Links

Posted by Jeff Carter
on July 28th, 2011

Air Force Academy cadets have the flu. Having both experiences in my life, Air Force Academy Cadet (service #841188, still have my combat boots and shoes) and the stomach flu I assure you I would rather go through the rigors of basic training than run back and forth to the bathroom. How do you puke at attention?

It ticked me off when people compared McCain’s USNA record to Obama’s academic record. There is no comparison between a military academy and any other school. Academies are exponentially more difficult.

Re-election desperation time for the one. Anyone But Obama.

What they really want is to dictate to us all.

Ycharts adds dividend tracking data to its sight. This is cool. Pro version only $40 bucks a month. Cheap too.

It was government distortion, not banks that lead the economy into the ditch. Banks were the trailer on the truck.

The virtues of no imagination. great quote-”Modern leftists lack the courage to imagine and work towards a world in which they are not particularly important. Instead, they are moral cowards like Milton’s Lucifer who would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven. They would rather live as the highest status members of an impoverished and authoritarian society than live as ordinary members of a wealthy and free society.”

Here is a balanced editorial on the debt crisis. And being wishy washy on this issue will accomplish nothing. The choice is end entitlements as we know them, or significantly raise taxes. Raising taxes will do nothing. But, we can deliver the same entitlements in a different format to accomplish the same goals.

Speaking of cutting spending, from Powerlineblog

The experience of a start up company, Feefighters, using Facebook ads. If you have a small business, you ought to give them a call. Save you 50k in processing fees.

Transparency is good. This is why Sarbox is such a crappy law. We would know more about more companies if they went public. Incentives are misaligned. Now Dodd-Frank will make it worse.

An example of how to destroy jobs. Regulation.

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