Liberal Hypocrisy Case # 6,783,914

Mark Perry reports:
Even though the Palins ($294,000) earned only about half the income of the Bidens ($569,000) in 2006 and 2007 combined, the Palins gave almost 6 times as much to charity ($8,205) in those two years as the Bidens ($1,375).

Hat tip: Greg Mankiw

If you subtract Girl Scout cookies and the $4 Biden tipped a bum (forgive me, a down trodden, vicitim of white, capitalist oppression) at the train station, the Bidens only gave $371.

UPDATE: A commenter posts that this item is incorrect because the Palins only donated $825.

That is partly correct. The Palins donated $825 in noncash/ check charitable contributions in 2007. In 2006, they made $630 in noncash/check charitable contributions. When added to their $2,500 cash/ check charitable contributions in 2007 and $4,250 in 2006, the grand total of the Palins charitable contributions for 2006 and 2007 was $8,205.

The devil is in the details.

Source:
http://www.johnmccain.com/palinfinancial/

I'm Happy

From the Filing Cabinet:

Conservatives are more happy than liberals.

It basically boils down to this:

Conservatives are happy because they believe their hard work ethic and responsibility are the determinants of their outcomes and futures. If you work hard and do the right thing, good things will come. More conservatives are also married and religious.

Liberals see themselves as victims of the world around them. Nothing is their fault- it's all the sytem, man. So they sit at home in their mothers' basements blogging away about their collective (pun, intended) misery and posting vapid comments on nutroots message boards. So they're unhappy and deranged- that probably explains why more of them aren't married.