More football advertising today. This time, Obama’s hitting the broadcast networks. I’ve seen the Clinton “choice” ad and the Obama “Forward” ad both on CBS. Gives me hope that Iowa might shift from toss-up to leaning Dem whenever someone gets around to polling us again. I know that there are polls being done–I’ve responded to three phone polls just this past week–but apparently not any publicly published ones.

What is par­tic­u­larly amaz­ing is that not only do tax cuts demon­stra­bly lead to eco­nomic col­lapse, but tax increases clearly lead to growth.

Correlation is not causation. That argument is post hoc, ergo propter hoc. Not to say that tax cuts lead to growth, either, but I wouldn’t say tax cuts demonstrably lead to economic collapse. We had many tax cuts before Reagan that did not lead to collapse.

I expect our conservative friends to ignore the chart. You can find the full article here.

Hmmm interesting idea to hit football games. I’m sure the Romney campaign will jump on that as well. It will give them a chance to froth at the mouth about the Fed. I bet there are a fair number of unempoyed or underwater folks watching. Some of them might like the idea that some is actually being done that might help down the road.

http://soldiersystems.net/tag/recoil/

Scroll down for the whole sordid story. Long story short — editor of a firearms magazine makes a comment that a weapon which is already illegal in the United States should remain so, generating a firestorm of hatred for him and his magazine, causing most of his advertisers to pull out and resulting in his being forced out as editor. This entire thing reminds me of the firearms industry executive who was fired in 2008 for donating to the Obama campaign, or the flap with Jim Zumbo before that.

The thuggish behavior of the “black rifles” community in support of their 2nd Amendment rights is probably the greatest single threat to those rights that exists. As much as I love guns, I’d also love to see some of those people cry.