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…..sorry, no, it could bring on an even bigger fight, per Reuters Kevin Drawbaugh: Analysis: Storms ahead as debt deal sets up tax fight If Congress passes the debt ceiling deal by Tuesday, as expected, it could trigger a battle over tax reform within weeks and turn Washington once again into a dateline for deadlock. […]
Liberalism In 120 Seconds: Libs Should Learn From Obama’s Gabrielle Giffords Speech
If one child complains that he didn’t get as much food as his brother because his frankfurter was cut into four pieces, while his brother’s hot dog was cut into five pieces, we laugh. What we often don’t realize is that the definitions of “fairness” that adults use are often every bit as arbitrary as […]
These days, all it takes to create a scandalous story is someone spouting off anonymously to a major news source and next thing you know, it’s news, whether it’s true or not. In Newt Gingrich’s case, he’s been accused of buying most of his 1.3 million Twitter followers. gawker.com is suggesting that many of Gingrich’s […]
If government spending were enough to make the economy hum, we should already have the fastest growing economy on earth. The fact that the economy’s limping along while we’re spending so much borrowed money that it’s pulling us towards bankruptcy should be enough to kill the whole Keynesian stimulus idea dead as a doornail.
The ultimate issue is that over the years, the cost of Social Security and Medicare has escalated dramatically and the government, being the government, has failed to demand that people pay as much into the programs as they’re going to take out. That worked out okay for awhile because of the population bubble created by […]
The American Conservative Union ( CPAC ) has decided to ban GOProud from attending its event. However, it claims that members can attend individually. This is a terrible decision. I’ve attended CPAC before, and I am really disappointed. Video below.
Remember when the Left was accusing Sarah Palin of causing the Gabrielle Giffords shooting by putting her district in the crosshairs? Liberals became so sensitive about that kind language that CNN actually apologized because a guest used “crosshairs” on the air. Of course, the demands for delicate phrasing only expanded from there. It got so […]
Have you noticed how there is more road construction than usual lately, which never seems to end? In some states it has gotten so bad their departments of transportation have set up road closure email alerts on each highway. This is a direct result of President Obama’s stimulus spending. Last summer, Obama proposed spending $50 […]
Just because the Fast & Furious gunrunning scandal is slowly exploding in Obama’s face as the public finds out about it is no reason the operation can’t be used to advance its original purpose — creating propaganda to undermine our priceless Second Amendment rights. Here’s how the left-wing authoritarians at the New York Times spin […]
What could be more degrading than to be expected to sacrifice your life if necessary for a skeevy character like Joke Biden? To see your agency charged for the privilege: In between keeping Vice President Biden and his family safe, the Secret Service is also cutting him a rent check every month. The Secret Service […]
Illinois ended 2010 as the most indebted state in the union. Sadly, not a thing has been done so far in 2011 to make it better. Instead, it will get worse. As State House News reports, the state rings in at number 50 in the nation’s most broke states. Illinois owed $37.9 billion more than […]
The lesson: if you are a union member, better to sit on your rear-end and do nothing than find gainful employment. A poor Chicago-area carpenter who was sick and tired of waiting for his useless union to find him work struck out on his own and got a job with a non-union shop. Big mistake. […]
As previously previewed in the COIN issue of FFP– the ancient game of chequers – invented by pre mullah Persia – features cool playing pieces on the squares. Some are powerful – like Castle Towers, Bishops or Knights – some are not – like pawns. The most powerful piece of all is called the Queen. […]
Then things are quite a bit worse then they appear. Douglas A. McIntyre provides 10 signs the double-dip recession has begun Friday’s news on GDP shows the double dip has arrived – an expansion of only 1.3 percent and consumer spending up 0.1 percent in the second quarter. Astonishingly low by any account. The debt […]
Over at the Washington Post, Chris Cillizza breaks down the winners and losers in the debt deal. Here are a few of his winners Tea party: There were major questions coming into the 112th Congress about who would blink first – the largely establishment-aligned leaders of the new Republican House majority or the tea-party-aligned freshman […]
I was pleased to get an opportunity to talk to Jedediah Bila about her new book, “Outnumbered: Chronicles of a Manhattan Conservative.” What follows is a slightly edited transcript of our conversation. Your book is sort of a diary telling people what it was like to be a Palin-supporting conservative in New York in the […]
Over at Hot Air, they have an absolutely fantastic story about how liberals end up driving American jobs overseas. This is a story the Left could learn a lot from if it paid attention. Boston Scientific Corp. said yesterday that it plans to eliminate 1,200 to 1,400 jobs worldwide during the next 2 1/2 years […]
There are people out there hammering the Tea Party and saying it failed. Well, if the definition of “failure” for the Tea Party turns out to be getting 2.4 trillion in cuts when Obama wanted none, we need more “failure.” I mean, we REALLY need more failure because the deal isn’t enough to change the […]
“From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.” — Papa Smurf Sure, Marx said it first, but it applies to the Smurfs much better than you might think. In a textbook communist society, all citizens are equal. They labor for the common good. Money is unnecessary. Individual liberty takes a back […]
Hmm, hasn’t President Snippy Pants been running around, scaring people, telling them the US credit rating will get downgraded if Someone Else doesn’t put a deal together? Not so fast, “according to PIMCO founder and managing director Bill Gross” When asked by CNN host Ali Velshi on Sunday whether the U.S. deserved to maintain its […]
Following a week’s hiatus, This Week in Automotivators makes its triumphant return! Just click on the link under each picture if you aren’t sure what the hell I’m talking about. First, and most importantly: The debt ceiling thingie kinda paled in comparison. Which of course leads us to: Onward: Link: Da Tech Guy. Picture by […]
Sen. Marco Rubio plainly and simply explains what is going on with the argument about the debt limit. He perfectly lays out what the problem is. The tactics and delay of the Senate is absurd. Rubio is one of our Tea Party heros. He understands how warped things are in Washington. He is standing up […]
A Newark, NJ “campaign worker” pled guilty to election fraud on Friday. Angel Colon admitted submitting fraudulent absentee and messenger ballots on behalf of State Senator Teresa Ruiz in 2007. Ruiz won the election. Now here’s the test. Go read the AP story. Did you notice any mention of Colon’s or Ruiz’s political party affiliation? […]
We all know that the Old Media is filled with double standards where it concerns treatment of conservatives and liberals. Last week we found yet another example of the media’s penchant to hypocrisy when a talking head on MSNBC used a derogatory term associated with gays yet the entire militant gay establishment and their pals […]
The debt crisis is a national disaster, of course. But Illinois will likely be affected worse than many other states. For one thing, Illinois is the most broke state in the union and will be affected more immediately by the mess that is our national economy than any other state. But, as Fox Business network’s […]
ABC News is reporting that there is tentative debt deal, per “congressional sources”. Here’s the deal they are reporting, according to both Dem and GOP sources A debt ceiling increase of up to $2.1 to $2.4 trillion (depending on the size of the spending cuts agreed to in the final deal). They have now agreed […]
As I usually find with such lists, they’ve got most of the right entries, but they’re in the wrong order.: #8 should absolutely be #1.
Simply: great.