Hostess: A Lesson In Blaming Unions For Your Failures
Twinkie the Kid couldn’t lasso up a sustainable business plan Hostess Brands, the makers of Twinkies, Ho-Hos, Wonder Bread, and Drake’s Cakes, announced this morning that it will be shutting down its...
View ArticleA Proper Hostess Gives Everyone The Finger On The Way Out
When I previously wrote about the tragic, private equity driven bankruptcy of Hostess Brands — a bankruptcy that Hostess tried to publicly blame on a labor union to divert attention from its efforts to...
View ArticleThe Dumbest Thing I Heard This Week
The Wall Street Journal is a loyal cog in the Rupert Murdoch conservative propaganda machine. Many mornings I find that their columnists have almost magically concocted responses to the prevailing...
View ArticleBreakfast in America: December 10, 2012
Bill O’Reilly says something statistically insignificant about “right-to-work” states. Except this figure is driven entirely by North Dakota’s energy boom and the agricultural sector states. Fun...
View ArticleWeekly Podcast: Fiscal Cliff Vacation
That’s right, we’re not going to talk at all about fiscal cliff at all this week. Joe, Nick, Allison and Kathryn discuss Jim DeMint’s departure from the Senate and the role the Heritage Foundation...
View ArticleBreakfast in America: December 12, 2012
Enjoy 12/12/12…it’s the last repeating date until 1/1/(210)1 Is America moving to the Left? I say it’s a bit much to take “tolerance at the margins” as a sign of serious change. Fiscal cliff update:...
View ArticleMichelle Malkin Overplays Her Disingenuous Hand
Michelle Malkin is that special brand of talking head capable of making Ann Coulter seem like William F. Buckley. I’m not sure whether she is so closed-minded that she doesn’t understand the simple...
View ArticleHistory Can’t Keep Up With These Rewrites
So conservatives love them some Governor Rick Snyder of Michigan right now. He just made Michigan a “right to work” state. They can’t get enough of him. Did he veto voter screening legislation? Did he...
View ArticleWeekly Podcast #56: Ugh Are We Really Talking About 2016?
Joe, Nick, and Allison gather to discuss the most recent BLS jobs report and what it means for the economy. Spoiler alert: Ben Bernanke is not doing his job correctly. They also turn to a discussion of...
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