Brewers 13, Reds 1. (Wow.)
Cubs 2, Giants 0.
The Brewers’ magic number is now 11. Any combination of Brewer wins and Cub losses adding up to that number will ensure that the Brewers end the season with a better record than the Cubs.
Both teams have 11 games remaining.
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Posted in Sports
Tagged baseball, brewers, cubs, losing teams, missing the playoffs, mlb
Via Wayne Pugh. Original here.
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Posted in Political Animals
Over at the AmSpec blog, I describe a kerfuffle in Germany over schnitzel taxes:
Gerhard Kaltscheuer owns a restaurant in a working-class neighborhood in Hammerbruecke, Germany. His schnitzels are especially popular — except with German tax authorities.
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Posted in Economics, International, Taxation
Tagged food, Gerhard Kaltscheuer, Germany, saxony, schnitzel, tax policy, taxes
Reds 4, Brewers 3.
Giants 1, Cubs 0.
The Brewers’ magic number is now 12. Any combination of Brewer wins and Cub losses adding up to that number will ensure that the Brewers end the season with a better record than the Cubs.
Both teams have 12 games remaining.
The Small Business Administration released a new study today. “The Impact of Regulatory Costs on Small Firms,” by Nicole V. Crain and W. Mark Crain, updates previous studies of the same title from 2005 and 2001.
From the introduction (p. 6):
The findings in this report indicate that in 2008, U.S. federal government regulations cost an estimated $1.75 trillion, an amount equal to 14 percent of U.S. national income. When combined with U.S. federal tax receipts, which equaled 21 percent of national income in 2008, these two costs of federal government programs in 2008 consumed 35 percent of national income.
And keep in mind that those numbers are for 2008. With government spending now closer to 24 percent of GDP, the federal government’s current share of the economy is around 38 percent.
State and local spending and regulations, of course, cost extra.
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Posted in Economics, regulation
Tagged crain, deregulate to stimulate, federal regulations, liberate to stimulate, mark crain, nicole crain, nicole v. crain, over-regulation, regulation, sba, studies, trillions, w. mark crain
This is priceless.
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Maybe they got the idea for this segment from a recent CEI video:
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The Brewers lost to the Reds yesterday. The Cubs had the day off. The Brewers’ magic number remains 13. Any combination of Brewer wins and Cub losses adding up to that number will ensure that the Brewers end the season with a better record than the Cubs.
Both teams have 13 games remaining.
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The Brewers were mathematically eliminated from the playoffs with last night’s 9-2 loss to the Giants. I’ve long gotten used to my beloved Brew Crew missing the playoffs. That’s why this despairing fan has set up secondary goals, such as beating the arch-rival Chicago Cubs.
Fortunately, this goal is still doable. The Brewers are 69-79 entering tonight’s game. The Cubs stand at 68-81. That puts the Brewers’ magic number at 13. Any combination of Brewer wins and Cub losses adding up to 13 will ensure that the Brewers end the season with a better record than the Cubs.
This blog will be keeping tabs, and hoping for the best.
The American Spectator has kindly asked me to contribute to their blog. My first post ran today. It’s about Boston’s proposed ban on non-diet soda sales in government buildings. Read it here if you like.
Blogging at this site will be unaffected.
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Posted in Nanny State, Publications, regulation
Samuel Burgos is 8 years old. One day he brought a toy gun to school in his backpack. That got him expelled from his Miami school for two years. Toy guns violate his school district’s zero-tolerance policy for weapons.
The district offered to place Sam in a correctional school; his parents opted to home-school him instead. His father told the local NBC affiliate, “I can’t sit here and allow them to send my kid to a school where students have committed actual crimes,” Burgos said. “He hasn’t committed a crime.”
Sam misses his friends. And he may have to repeat the second grade. All because common sense has gone missing from Broward County’s schools. That’s what makes the school board’s response especially galling:
The school board says it’s common sense to know that this kind of item can’t be allowed on school campus and that responsibility also falls on parents to know what their children have in their backpacks.
The Burgos family has suffered enough. Toy guns are not weapons. They are toys. The school board should exercise a bit of common sense and reinstate Sam immediately.
Posted in education, Nanny State, Regulation of the Day
Tagged broward county, common sense, education, florida, guns, miami, public schools, toy guns, zero tolerance, zero tolerance policies
Inertia Wins! 