Author: Brian Garst

Brian Garst is the Director of Government Affairs for the Center for Freedom and Prosperity, a non-profit think tank dedicated to preserving tax competition and free markets. He also blogs at BrianGarst.com.

The Short-Sightedness Of The Talking Heads

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It’s election season.:  That means every paper, TV news show, magazine, or blog is full of predictions, prognostications and prophesying.:  More often than not, it seems, the talking heads engaging in such speculation are incredibly short-sighted. Take this New York Times article which notes the “double-edged sword” the Tea Party poses to the GOP.:  The […]

 

The Left Lies Because You’re Too Stupid for the Truth

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The Daily Caller recently reported on a twitter exchange between Matt Yglesias, blogger savant at Think Progress, and and Washington Examiner’s Mark Hemingway.:  During the discussion, Yglesias basically endorsed lying and deception as legitimate when used to advance the left-wing agenda. “Fighting dishonesty with dishonesty is sometimes the right thing for advocates to do, yes,” […]

 

This Blogger is Proudly Unlicensed

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Last time I was in Time Square, I passed a couple people selling humorous Barack Obama condoms on a street corner.:  I was amused and proud of everything represented by:  this simple act of commerce: freedom, expression, and capitalism.:  I am sad to learn now that those same individuals might be the ones in this […]

 

Ethics Enforcement Is Rrrrrrrrrracist

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It’s no surprise, in today’s race obsessed political environment, to find yet another instance in which race is being used to deflect from troubling behavior or bad news.:  This time, the entire idea of ethics is being challenged as racist.:  You see, there are just too many black members of Congress being investigated for corruption. […]

 

Faith in Government Regulators is Misplaced

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Shakespeare would likely describe the latest major legislation winding its way through Congress as a piece of legislation crafted by idiots, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.:  Rather than address the systemic distortions created by prior government policies, and which caused the financial meltdown, policy makers are now “[putting] a lot of faith in […]

 

Al Franken’s Bad Judicial Comedy

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Vitriolic left-wing Senator Al Franken has bought into the conservative courts myth.:  This myth is popular only so far as the courts have not yet completely embraced left-wing “progressive” interpretations of the Constitution that in reality render its existance entirely meaningless.:  Rather, such views only dominate academia, the political class and almost all levels of […]

 

Not All Experience Is Created Equal

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Susan Estrich thinks the crop of Republican women winning primaries is problematic because they don’t have enough political experience: Some years ago, the late New York Times and Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist William Safire wrote a great column comparing politicians to plumbers. It was during one of those periods when (like now) experience had become a […]

 

Thoughtless On Discrimination

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Decades of reflexive animosity toward anything that might even be remotely labeled as discrimination has rendered the modern left braindead.:  They no longer have the ability to think critically or debate honestly on policy solutions to social problems involving discrimination.:  Instead, they simply reflexively label anyone who disagrees with their policy as racist/bigoted/homophobe. Rand Paul […]

 

Elites Hate When The People Speak

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Much of the animosity we’ve witnessed directed at the Tea Party over the last year has come from political and cultural elites who find regular people disturbing, if not downright disgusting.:  The peasants, according to elites, are prone to temper tantrums and just don’t get how things work in the sophisticated political world. That same […]

 

Mayors Daley And Nutter Cross A Line

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Despite having some of the most restrictive gun laws in the country, violence in Chicago has gotten so bad that some local politicians are calling for deployment of the National Guard.:  It’s bad enough when gun control advocates can’t recognize the failure of their own policies, but now Mayor Daley has taken the anti-Second Amendment […]

 

Thank You, Mr. President

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President Obama is apparently feeling unappreciated.:  “You would think they’d be saying thank you,” he said about the Tea Party protests at a recent Democratic fundraiser. In his mind, he’s worked hard his first year adjusting taxes for our benefit. And for what? Nary a Tea Party thank you has been offered.:  Instead he’s faced […]

 

Give Patients A Reason To Say No, Not Government

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David Leonhardt of the New York Times discovered in a recent column that health care is not a free and unlimited good.:  Some way or another, a certain amount of demand will not be met.:  People cannot get all that they want because it is a scarce good and is restrained by the same laws […]

 

Lefties Claim They Can’t Find Anyone to Argue That Obamacare is Unconstitutional

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The University of Washington held a “debate” over the constitutionality of the health care bill in which none of the participants argued it was at all unconstitutional. Explaining this farce, the university claimed they couldn’t find any law professors to argue the opposing view. Liberal blogs such as TalkingPointsMemo and Think Progress, the blog for […]

 

And Bullies Bully

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Dr. Clouthier recently reminded us that legislators are prone to legislating.:  They see all problems as solvable via legislation, just as surgeons see all health problems as correctable through surgery.:  But over the last century or so, there’s something else that legislators have also done with increasing regularity: they’ve bullied. Reacting to the recently passed […]

 

I’ll Gladly Take The Constitution Over Precedent

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The LA Times gloats that precedent is against the states seeking to protect their sovereignty in the face of Obamacare unconstitutional onslaught. Reporting from Washington – Lawsuits from 14 states challenging the constitutionality of the new national healthcare law face an uphill battle, largely due to a far-reaching Supreme Court ruling in 2005 that upheld […]

 

Federal Worker Pay Outpaces Private Sector

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The productive sector of the economy is having to shoulder quite the burden when it comes to paying the salaries for their “public sector” cohorts, who USA Today finds are excessively compensated: Federal employees earn higher average salaries than private-sector workers in more than eight out of 10 occupations, a USA TODAY analysis of federal […]

 

Allow Myself To Introduce… Myself

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In my first post here on Right Wing News, I want to thank John for affording me this opportunity.:  I’ve been a long time reader and admirer of his work, and when I saw him at CPAC I couldn’t pass up the opportunity ask about contributing. A little about myself: I am 26 years old […]