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Left Business Brain


What’s good for the goose (Obama) is good for the gander (Walker)
What’s good for the goose (Obama) is good for the gander (Walker)
President Obama came to Wisconsin last week to visit padlock manufacturer Master Lock, a company that recently returned 100 jobs to the U.S. from China. Since China’s border has traditionally been a bleak event horizon from which no gainful employment can escape, you might say the president was touting a small economic miracle. Full Story full story
Really, Republicans? Rick Santorum?
When I was a teenager, I took the city bus to school almost every day. All of us who rode the bus knew that if we were last to climb aboard, we’d likely have to sit next to the “CIA Lady,” so named because she habitually nuzzled up to whoever her unlucky chairmate was that day and, in conspiratorial sotto voce tones, told him all about the CIA’s ongoing and poisonous plot against her. Full Story full story
Don’t be fooled: Middle-class earners and small business owners are the real job creators
In 1914, a pinko commie socialist class warfarist named Henry Ford went out of his way to acknowledge what every society has known deep down since humans first left the primal hunter-gatherer lifestyle behind and started doing specialized tasks for their friends and neighbors – too much income inequality among a given population is a bad thing. Full Story full story
Political ads crowd out common sense and commerce
Gird your loins, batten down the hatches, hide the children, stock up on Dramamine, and take your eccentric uncle’s Cold War-era survival bunker out of mothballs. If you can afford it, put your head in cryogenic freeze in anticipation of the day when there’s a cure for Newt Gingrich. Political ads are about to flood the airwaves, and television will soon see its full potential realized, nourishing our minds and entertaining us with all the exquisite grace and power of Carrot Top doing prop comedy at a Scientology convention. Full Story full story
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