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“Weighing benefits against costs is the way most people make decisions – and the way most businesses make decisions, if they want to stay in business. Only in government is any benefit, however small, considered to be worth any cost, however large.” –Thomas Sowell When it comes to unemployment insurance, we’ve always tried to balance […]
I have to admit that at first, I disagreed with this harsh letter that Nick Crews wrote to his disappointing children. It just seemed far too: rough a message for a father to send to his kids. However, when I thought about the loving parents (as opposed to the bad parents) I know with terrible kids […]
As I’ve said previously, I hate tax increases, but I’ll settle if a 10:1 deal is reached. : Ten dollars of spending cuts, including welfare state cuts, for every one dollar raised in revenue. : It’s a rational deal. : If we can retake the Senate, and maintain our majority in the House; then perhaps we can discuss […]
I won’t lie. I found Suzanne Venker’s piece about the ‘war on men‘ interesting, thought-provoking, and controversial. In the process, she has reaped a whirlwind of left-wing hate. It’s no surprise that today’s economy is better suited for women. Manufacturing, the lynchpin of male labor, has collapsed — and now scores of men are left […]
In an outrageous attempt to defuse for President Obama the murderous disaster that is his security failures in Benghazi on September 11, the Associated Press deemed the whole debacle merely a “PR disaster” and speculated it could all just be forgotten if Susan Rice were to be successfully nominated as our next Secretary of State. […]
Even though the economy is still in the toilet and California’s economy is worse than most, the Obama administration cut the throat of a business that has survived a hundred years and produced 40% of Cali’s Oysters with all the emotion of a farmer killing a chicken. Kevin Lunny’s struggle to keep his family’s oyster […]
Replacing dollar bills with dollar coins is an obnoxious idea, if only because coins don’t work well in most wallets. Yet, this would seem to be a strong argument in favor of the practice. Congressional auditors say doing away with dollar bills entirely and replacing them with dollar coins could save taxpayers some $4.4 billion […]
He’s correct when he notes how indignantly and angrily and dismissively the press responds to criticisms about their obvious liberal bias. I think of it like this: If you tell someone who’s not an alcoholic that he’s drinking too much, he’ll take an interest in your statement. He might be incredulous, but he’ll ask things […]
An unserious proposal from an unserious president (Politico) Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s fiscal cliff proposal to Republicans Thursday was rejected out of hand, but offered a window into President Barack Obama’s priorities in the fast-evolving budget talks. In the plan, sources said, Geithner proposed a two-step process to ultimately achieve about $1.6 trillion in new […]
Dhimmi’s and Israel haters around the world rejoiced (NY Times) The United Nations voted overwhelmingly Thursday to recognize a Palestinian state, a long-sought victory for the Palestinians and an embarrassing diplomatic defeat for the United States. The resolution upgrading the Palestinians’ status to a nonmember observer state at the U.N. was approved by a vote […]
If you thought President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder had given up on closing Guantanamo Bay and bringing jihadists to American soil, think again. Two troubling developments on the Gitmo front should have every American on edge. The first White House maneuver took place in October, while much of the public and the media […]
It’s at times like this I’m ashamed to admit I live inside the Beltway. Well, that’s probably not specific enough since I’m usually ashamed to admit I live inside the Beltway. Still, the second you try to explain the stupidity of this “fiscal cliff” fiasco to a normal person, it makes William F. Buckley’s famous […]
We can get back to discussing GOP minority constituent recruitment soon, but in the meantime, we have a fiscal cliff issue that beckons — the real fiscal cliff (America’s imminent financial collapse), not the government shutdown molehill everyone is agonizing over. Congressional Republicans should look at their party’s loss in the presidential election as liberating. […]
One little noticed and quite remarkable aspect of Election 2012 is that Barack Obama won a majority of the popular vote for the second consecutive time. With the exception of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s four-term run in the 1930s and ’40s, it’s the first time the Democrats have won a majority of the presidential vote in […]
As the “fiscal cliff” looms, editorial writers and Beltway commentators have turned their sights on their favorite enemy — tax-foe Grover Norquist’s no-new-taxes pledge signed by a weighty majority of GOP members of Congress. If Republicans had not been scared into signing the pledge, the pack laments, D.C. pols would compromise, and all would be […]
America was founded on Judeo-Christian values. Those values are written in freedom’s blood in our Constitution. Our rights come from God not our government. Our founding fathers believed in conservative values. Those values that our nation was founded upon are center right values. But a funny thing happened on the way to Center Right Ville. […]
The biggest threat to America’s future is the size and power of our own government. If you agree with that statement, then you’re probably a conservative. If you disagree and believe that big government is a boon to the country and not a threat at all, you’re probably a liberal. So says Gallup. The sad […]
Remember the spending cuts Democrats delivered after they cut a deal with Ronald Reagan to raise taxes? Oh yeah, those never happened. And remember the future military cuts that both parties agreed to as part of the debt ceiling stand-off? Yeah, those are never going to happen either. So now that Republicans are negotiating with […]
Remember those classic, but profane lines from: Good Fellas? Now the guy’s got Paulie as a partner. Any problems, he goes to Paulie. Trouble with the bill? He can go to Paulie. Trouble with the cops, deliveries, Tommy, he can call Paulie. But now the guy’s gotta come up with Paulie’s money every week, no matter […]
You can’t even eat turkey on Thanksgiving without being called a racist by our friends on the extreme left side of the aisle in America today, especially if you prefer the white meat over the dark. Just before Thanksgiving last week, the liberal site Slate dredged up a 2010 piece claiming that the reason Americans […]
Obama has demonstrated zero flexibility on his insistence that higher tax rates for the wealthy kick in on January 1, 2013. To those familiar with “progressive” modus operandi, it is not surprising that the White House and their “progressive” political allies envision Medicare and other “entitlement” savings happening ten to twenty years from now. This […]
One of the worst things about the Republican Party in DC is how utterly and thoroughly cowed they are by the press. They’re defensive, passive, quick to criticize their own side and far too willing to forgive egregious mistakes by the Democrats. Why? Because if they go on the attack, the Democrats will fight back […]
While we’re at it, why not take away all the amortization and other breaks companies receive? Let’s nail them with higher taxes, especially companies like Progressive Insurance, General Electric, and Heinz. Take away all the breaks for the sports and entertainment industries (Politico) The Oracle of Omaha came on the show yesterday and promoted his […]
Scott Shane, writing for the Fish Wrap, makes a darned good point, part of one that I’ve been making in blog posts and on Twitter for well over a month. Much of the article is focused on providing cover for Susan Rice, Barack Obama, and others involved in giving us the stupid “it was a […]
Glenn Beck’s “Barack Obama in Pee-Pee” is an inspirational piece of art. After seeing that, I immediately thought back to Chris Ofili’s “The Holy Virgin Mary” which featured the Virgin Mother and elephant dung. This inspired me to do something similar with the most popular religious figure among liberals in America, Barack Obama. Some people […]
One bright spot of Barack Obama’s re-election was knowing that unemployment rates were about to soar for the precise groups that voted for him — young people, unskilled workers and single women with degrees in gender studies. But now the Democrats are sullying my silver lining by forcing Republicans to block an utterly pointless tax-raising […]
Classical explanations of conventional wars run something like this: An aggressor state seeks political advantage through military force. It has a hunch that the threatened target will likely either make concessions to avoid losing a war, or, if war breaks out, the resulting political gains will be worth the military costs to achieve victory. Wars […]