Building a Better Burrito with Healthy Immigration
January 4, 2012 at 12:05 pm | Posted in Pajamas Media | Leave a commentTags: Chipotle, Free Market, illegal, Immigration, tea party
Crappy service from saracastic disinterested losers is only funny in the movies.
by Walter Hudson – PJ Media
EXCERPT:
One of my worst pet peeves is bad food service, particularly at a fast-food restaurant. The difference in price between fast food and a sit-down family restaurant is often negligible, and the quality is generally inferior. So the value in fast food compared to other options is entirely in its being delivered fast and accurately. Yet all too frequently we spend far longer waiting for fast food than it is worth, or pull away from a drive-thru only to discover down the road that our order is wrong.
In my experience, Chipotle has always stood out as a remarkable exception to this trend. The Mexican grill would prefer to be called a “quick-casual eatery,” perhaps in an effort to differentiate itself from the fast-food stigma. Nevertheless, the restaurant chain serves food fast, or at least used to.
Public Broadcasting’s Proxy War Against the Taxpayer
April 28, 2011 at 2:46 pm | Posted in NewsRealBlog | Leave a commentTags: Free Market, Legacy Amendment, minnesota public radio, MPR, NewsReal Blog, NPR, Public Broadcasting, Sales Tax, Socialism
by Walter Hudson, contributed to David Horowitz’s NewsReal Blog
In the great state of Minnesota, we have something called the Legacy Amendment which increased our state sales tax to create a slush fund for all kinds of extraneous goodies related to “outdoor heritage, clean water, parks and trails, and arts and cultural heritage.” The result has been increasingly odious lobbying efforts to claim a slice of that taxpayer pie. Legislators can’t seem to give the money away fast enough. As the state wrestles with a $5 billion budget deficit, funds raised by the Legacy Amendment go to such essential items as paying a science-fiction writer $40,000 to speak to an audience of 500 at a small town library.
Like Frodo’s quest to destroy the Ring, an effort is underway to repeal the Legacy Amendment in the same manner it was created, though a ballot initiative. In the meantime, the slush fund’s beneficiaries continue to squabble over the state’s fiscal crumbs like a hoard of orcs tearing at man-flesh.
Among them is Minnesota Public Radio. In a recent email to members, the public broadcasting organization pleaded for help in pressuring legislators to keep the gravy train flowing.
Hybrid Cars Are “Bull$#!+” Croons Environmental Diva, Cher
November 17, 2010 at 11:00 am | Posted in NewsRealBlog | Leave a commentTags: Burlesque, CFL Bulbs, Cher, Christina Aguilera, environmentalism, Federal Mandates, Free Market, Hollywood, Hybrid Cars, NewsReal Blog, Stanley Tucci, The Concession Stand
by Walter Scott Hudson, contributed to NewsReal Blog
Hollywood has a well-deserved reputation for environmental lunacy. Occasionally though, even in the midst of an otherwise effete rant, nuggets of wisdom can percolate to the surface.
Such was the case with Burlesque co-stars Cher and Stanley Tucci recently. Before prescribing the government do a better job of encouraging environmentally conscious behavior, Cher unwittingly endorsed market solutions.
“I researched all the hybrid stuff and its pretty much all bulls**t,” Cher said when asked about her vehicle preferences. “I was going to get a Mercedes diesel thing, but then thank God I found out there was no diesel places near us, so if there was a fire, I would not be able to get out. There have been 10 fires since I lived in my house in Malibu, and we’ve had to evacuate. It wasn’t safe and if there was a fire, we wouldn’t be able to get out.”
“An Inconvenient Truth” Director Takes on Teachers’ Unions, But Misses the Point
September 27, 2010 at 1:55 am | Posted in NewsRealBlog | Leave a commentTags: Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth, Davis Guggenheim, Economics, education, Free Market, Global Warming, Hollywood, Labor Unions, NewsReal Blog, teachers’ unions, The Concession Stand
by Walter Scott Hudson, contributed to NewsReal Blog
Though Al Gore catches most of the rap, prolific if unfamiliar director Davis Guggenheim shares equal responsibility for what is perhaps the greatest cinematic fraud of our time. Bragging to Cinematical in a recent interview, Guggenheim recalls:
… with An Inconvenient Truth, the percentage of people who thought global warming is real went from something like 30 to 80, and there were a lot of laws passed, and a lot of lives changed. And hundreds of people kept coming to me saying, “My company changed its policies,” and “My daughter made me buy a Prius,” and “I put solar panels on my house.”
Despite the unconscionable bias and rampant inaccuracies which have since been methodically debunked, Guggenheim’s collaboration with Gore may ultimately contribute to the creation of an artificial commodity which will “necessarily skyrocket” energy costs, and subsequently the cost of everything under the sun. Meanwhile, Guggenheim is set to release his next “documentary” film, Waiting for “Superman”. With it, he hopes to accomplish for education reform what he did for the myth of hazardous anthropogenic global warming.
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