Monthly Archives: January 2010

25% of all mortgages underwater. Time to either let the market take its corrective course and open up housing to those who couldn’t afford it before or prop up prices to keep preserve the status quo for another few years … Continue reading →

The BBC, bless its black heart, has come up with two exasperated Democrat professors who explain why Americans won’t just shut up and listen to their betters. I’d love to see a follow up story that addresses how college educated … Continue reading →

Obama caves. But where to conduct them? Rush Limbaugh suggests Washington D.C., which seems just about perfect, to me. They want  show trials, they should host them, no?

Good stuff, cheap, if you’re thinking of renovating or building new. Unfortunately, the company’s fired or gotten rid of some of their most knowledgeable people, but if you or your contractor know what you’re doing, you can still make this … Continue reading →

The lady who just yesterday announced that she would only accept a spending freeze if it also applied to the military has no qualms about spending our money on herself, as Judicial Watch reveals. As the result of a FOI … Continue reading →

Nothing much is showing up as under contract this week but things aren’t at all as quiet as  you might think.  In calling around to set up showing appointments for tomorrow I’m hearing of a large number of accepted offers. It’s … Continue reading →

UBS trader quits the business, returns to native Switzerland to build skis. Shockingly, he sounds quite cheerful.

Securitizing mortgage loans, a brilliant idea until we all discovered it wasn’t, aren’t exactly new. Turns out, the same financing was popular in the late 1920s. Funny enough, those came to a bad end too.

Bin Laden blasts America for global warming. On an equally amusing note, Scientific American is out with its February issue poo pooing all this talk about Climategate. Due no doubt to deadline pressures, it missed all the latest developments like the melting … Continue reading →

Yet another head lopped off by our new superintendent. Good. There are a lot of heads still on their owner’s shoulders that deserve to roll, but the new man seems to be getting off to a good start.

Obama’s lie about wanting to reward the hard working and responsible is best exposed by this poor bastard’s complaint from Oregon, which just pushed up taxes on its own hard working citizens: Public Sector v. Private Sector   [Stephen Spruiell] … Continue reading →

“He was supposed to sit there and take it”, the Senator  wails. On a brighter note, Wisconsin is unhappy with Feingold: latest poll shows Tommy Thompson leading him 47-43%. Bye bye, Russ.