Author Archive: Sarah Hoyt

HOW THIS ADMINISTRATION PLAYS THE NUMBERS: Why January is always a bad month for job growth.

What did the seasonal adjustments do to the January gain? If you look at the raw data provided deep inside the Labor Department’s Web site, you’ll see that there were 141.123 million jobs in the US in January compared with 144.112 million in December.

J. M. NEY-GRIMM: Winter Glory.

WE’RE NOT RENTERS.  THIS LAND IS MY LAND: Mrs. Clinton’s Ode to Serfdom.

Terry Shumaker, former U.S. ambassador to Trinidad (I wonder what that gig cost him) and current abject minion in the service of Mrs. Clinton, quotes Herself telling an audience in New Hampshire: “Service is the rent we pay for living in this great country.”

SOMETHING NICE AROUND HERE: Denver Celebrates Broncos’ win.  (And no, I’m not out in the middle of that.  I’m not that young, if indeed I ever was.)