Wal-Mart has just announced a plan to sell 30 day prescriptions of 291 generic drugs for $4. I’m sure there are already a number of commentators who are bemoaning this move as a wily trick to boost Wal-Mart’s profits and hurt their competition. Of course it is! By selling generic drugs at cost, Wal-Mart hopes [...]
Archive for November, 2011
If you’re unfamiliar with CENTCOM (Central Command), it is the division of the American military responsible for much of Northern Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia (i.e. the places where this War on Terror is ostensibly being waged). Well, two teenagers with a stolen car managed to bust down the gate of CENTCOM’s headquarters [...]
Mikhail Gorbachev regrets not using violence to hold the Soviet Union together in its last days. From Reuters: Gorbachev had earlier said that the destruction of the Soviet Union in late 1991, spearheaded by [Russian President Boris] Yeltsin, was an unnecessary shock to the nation rather than a help in achieving liberal goals. “Yeltsin should [...]
Over the weekend I had the privelege of watching George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic perform at a small venue in central Missouri. It was the most amazing show I’ve ever seen, and I think I can safely say, in the words of Dr. Sam Loomis, George Clinton “isn’t even remotely human.” They played for six [...]
It is nearly an article of faith among many liberals and leftists that the reason the oil market is due to a natural consolidating tendancy in the free market. After all, Exxon-Mobil is the biggest publicly traded company in the world with $412 billion in capitalization, and the market created it (which is debatable), so [...]
Benjamin Franklin famously said that “[b]eer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.” Well, it also may be proof that He wants us to be rich. From the Forbes blog: Drinkers earn 10 to 14% more money at their jobs than nondrinkers–and men who drink socially, visiting a bar [...]
I highly reccomend this animation on string theory–and the ten dimesions it implies–to anyone with any interest in theoretical physics or anyone who just likes trying to wrap their mind around seemingly impossible concepts. Via Marginal Revolution.
Immigration restrictionist par excellence Mark Krikorian (because when you think Anglo names you think Krikorian) worries that if the United States doesn’t “win” in Iraq we could be inundated with Sunni Muslim refugees after the Shia take over and send out the death squads. He’s right to worry, but it doesn’t really matter if the [...]
I was thinking today about people who, like Pat Robertson and Clydeen Tomanio, believe that God made George Bush president. Well, let’s take all the assumptions of Christianity and assume that God made Bush president. Biblically speaking, this does not put the president above reproach. The God of Abraham made David king of the Israelites, [...]
Today, by way of a declassified October 2005 CIA document, we recevied more confirmation of what most informed people in the world already knew: there was no evidence of a relationship between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda, including Zarqawi. White House press secretary Tony Snow rightly said the report was “nothing new” and added: “In 2002 [...]
