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Did you catch the headline? “Tax Rate for New Yorkers Would Top 50% Under Obama“ Under Obama’s proposals, the highest marginal tax rate for citizens of high income-tax states like New York will be close to a punitive 60% – and that’s before you consider sales tax, property tax, gas tax, and other taxes. New […]

I was intrigued by this article in The Atlantic that discussed the housing bubble, and in a sort of Malcolm Gladwell-esque way, suggested that economic “bubbles” might be treated like viruses, and prevented in analogous ways to how we work to contain the spread of diseases. I was of two minds about the premise: on […]

The ACLU sounded the alarm that our terrorist watch list has reached one million names! This is a huge exaggeration that I rip apart with facts in my Pajama’s Media article. Here is a sample: I have given the ACLU credit on this issue; now I will give reasons to be skeptical. The claim that […]

Alas, if great prose was enough to destroy Canada’s corrupt “Human Rights” Commissions (coming soon to a country near you…), we’d have won the fight long ago. Here’s the Newfie Rhodes Scholar, Rex Murphy, slagging the latest outrageous case in his own inimitable way: Incidentally, what are the human-rights protocols governing stand-up comedians in their […]

I caught Bob Novak’s speech at CPAC and was wondering if he would do a very similar speech for this event. As it turns out, he didn’t. He also did a great speech and was extremely well received for anyone considering booking him for a speech. Here are a few nuggets he fed to us […]

(Don’t worry. There are no spoilers in this review.) I sat down scared that I had hyped this movie too much, that there was no way that it could be as good as I thought it was going to be. I was right. It was better. The movie takes place after Batman has been operating […]

There’s good and bad that came out of John Heilemann’s column in this week’s issue of New York magazine. Before you can assess Heilemann’s argument with any sense of logic, you have to get past how crassly he makes his case. Heilemann calls McCain’s past and present campaigns (arguably, rightfully so) “spastic-goat rodeos.” He refers […]

So, poor Bob Novak walks down to the reception and of course, at an event like this, he can get 2 seconds of peace and as he’s trying to get away, I grab him, remind him that I interviewed him once, and ask for a pic. He looks slightly pained, but generously agrees to take […]

Check out the picture accompanying a tear-jerking NPR piece that weeps for Americans who are cutting down on food because they can’t afford it due to the horrible economy: Shapely figures courtesy of food stamps. Public media: your tax dollar at work. Socialism can’t even produce socialist propaganda as competently as the free market. On […]

We live in two different worlds, folks. Blacks folks live in one world and white folks live in the other. That’s not my perspective. Take Whoopi Goldberg’s word for it: Joy Behar thinks that when they called for a boycott of the N-bomb, they were calling for a boycott of its public use. Saying it […]

Establishment comedians are afraid to poke even light-hearted fun at Obama, because they don’t want to threaten his chances of election or be denounced as racists. Some have even subjected themselves to ridicule by claiming that the Obamessiah is too flawless to make fun of. However, being perfect, Obama can withstand a few laughs. The […]

Keepin’ those Alaskan pipelines full, while protecting the environment. That’s a win-win. Aside from the prospect of expanding domestic oil supplies, the new production would help alleviate worries about the viability of the Alaska pipeline system. The pipeline is transporting 700,000 barrels of oil daily, down from 2.1 million when the Prudhoe Bay fields were […]

Within ten years, Al Gore wants America to “produce every kilowatt of electricity through wind, sun and other Earth-friendly energy sources…” He compared his challenge to that of John F. Kennedy’s pledge to go to the moon in ten years, (which made me wonder about the carbon footprint created in the 1960s just to get […]

While I certainly appreciate Reuters writing these two stories, I wonder why they did not get wider play in the Credentialed Media. First, from July 12th Iraq’s combat troops will be almost fully formed by the middle of 2009, according to the senior U.S. Army officer who led the training of Iraqi security forces. On […]

There are lots of things Surrendie loves: some good brie, French bread, a nice Bordeaux, pre-emptive surrender. One of his others is when a port-sider decides to extend their 15 minutes with some sort of craziness, such as with Cindy Sheehan, Wes Clark, and now, Al Gore. Though, Surrendie is conflicted, as he has never […]

So, I arrived in Austin, Texas yesterday for the American Dream Summit. It was a long, strange trip. I’ve never been a big flyer and believe it or not, this was my first post-9/11 plane flight. It encompassed three flights. One, from the Myrtle Beach Airport to Charlotte. The 2nd from Charlotte to Houston and […]

“Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.” — Fake Thomas Jefferson Actually, Thomas Jefferson never said or believed that, which makes perfect sense given that he was a very wise man and that phrase is nonsense. Dissent can indeed be patriotism, but it can just as easily be foolishness, disloyalty, or even treason. Moreover, it’s […]

Finally, something I’ve been hoping to see, and something which helps restore my faith in real science: The American Physical Society, an organization representing nearly 50,000 physicists, has reversed its stance on climate change and is now proclaiming that many of its members disbelieve in human-induced global warming. The APS is also sponsoring public debate […]

Mitch McConnell suggests in the WSJ that—notwithstanding it being an election year, and all that—Congress might consider doing its job with respect to the energy crisis: The Gas Price Reduction Act is composed of just a few ideas. But taken together, the proposals will address the problem head on. They include deep-sea exploration more than […]

Yes, I am happy to announce that I will be in the land of 10,000 lakes covering the GOP convention and reporting back to my readers my experiences at such a dynamic event. You can follow along on my journey at MidnightBlue and I will also be cross posting my reports to Flopping Aces and […]

It would be a good start. I’ve been noticing that gas-price duality among the liberati for years now, and of course it’s always made perfect sense to me. That’s why I could hear NPR do a piece about the evils of high gas prices in the morning, and that afternoon report that our gas prices […]

The Kossies have such a flair with titles. This diarist and other DNC/liberal bloggers have their panties in a twist over the selection of the DNC Convention State Blogger Corps. These bloggers will have access to their state delegates, an honor not accorded to the general blogger corps. There were five state blogs that were […]

I found this gem of a Letter To Editor in the Philadelphia Inquirer: Racial Divisiveness A local Barack Obama team leader hysterically warned about an imminent onslaught of racist attacks against the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee (Letters, June 25). But the racial divisiveness against Obama has come from within the Democratic establishment itself: the recent […]

When I was a kid, I got hurt a lot. Not as much as my brother did, but I swear to you it seemed that my knees were always scabbed and I always had scrapes and bruises everywhere. My brother was even worse. It’s a miracle we both escaped with no broken bones. I always […]

Mr. Hope-Changeyness himself shows us just how unlike a regular politician he is. See, these aren’t flip-flops. This is just pandering you can believe in! Like, duh! Of course, the name John Kerry is floating around in my head right about now. Obama was just for this stuff before he was against it… before he […]

This sentence says it all: “We’re trying to figure out how close we can get to where we were before.” Who was it that said that? DC Council Chairman Vincent Gray. The intent, of course, is to find a way to subvert the intent of the Supreme Court case in which the right of self-defense […]

If you want to measure how successful the troop surge in Iraq has been you can look to signs of military or political progress or you can just ask a liberal. I blog at Wizbang and over the past year when I have blogged about progress being made in Iraq, whether it be on the […]

For once, the poll on St. Louis mayor Francis Slay’s website provides an interesting observation. By now, you’ve all heard about the Anheuser-Busch takeover. AB (or should I say, Anheuser-InBev) is based in St. Louis, my hometown, and its history within the city is historic. According to the mayor’s poll results, St. Louisians have a […]

Barack Hussein Obama seems to be an empty skin, chosen by the liberal elite because he’s mulatto, has a name that reminds them of Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden, has the most liberal voting record in the Senate, and seems like the sort of amiable moron who would be easy to control. But what […]

Some of you may have already stumbled upon this, but I was thrilled to find out about this tool today, sponsored by John McCain’s campaign. Here are two of the campaign posters I created: If any of you create posters of your own, please post a link in the comments for everyone to check out. […]