Turbo Tax Tim Geithner tells us: Social Security’s annual surpluses of tax income over expenditures are expected to fall sharply this year and to stay about constant in 2010 because of the economic recession, and to rise only briefly before declining and turning to cash flow deficits beginning in 2016 that grow as the baby […]

Update #1 I’m going to be talking about how to be a successful blogger at RFC Radio at 5 PM EST. — At 4:07 PM EST, I’m going to be on the Jaz McKay show. Click here to listen.

Here are the notes, not quotes, from a blogger teleconference with Senator Saxby Chambliss that was just completed. Opening Statement: I have been to Guantanamo Bay and will be going again soon. I have seen interrogations and have looked these terrorists in the eye. These guys get up every morning hoping for another opportunity to […]

Even after the Ascension of the Anointed One, we’ll have to hurry to catch up to Europeans in the race into the encroaching dark ages of moonbat totalitarianism. The New York Times praises the Nazi military base turned Green Party haven of Vauban, Germany for making it almost impossible to drive a car: Street parking, […]

Wasting money is easy, until you try to waste $trillions. Then you have to get creative. But our profligate rulers are up to the task: The National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAA), a part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), will pay $2.6 million in U.S. tax dollars to train Chinese prostitutes […]

A big thank you to my family friend Dave for passing this video along: It’s hard to pick, but “Who can save the poor? Who can pick the teams that are in the Final Four?” and “Who can take your income and tax it all away?” are probably my favorite lines. What line made you […]

If you want to reduce medical costs via socialized medicine, there are not a lot of easy ways to do so. Preventative medicine certainly isn’t going to do the trick. In fact, preventative medicine tends to raise costs because it takes money to do the testing and because many minor issues that would have never […]

Roger Simon met Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and says, “I was in the presence of pure Evil.” Roger’s analysis of coming face to face with evil is compelling. Please go read the whole thing. After you come back, I’ll have some thoughts that were triggered by his piece. I met evil once. She was in the form […]

This video is being show to young children all over America. We need to get this out of our schools. Please rate on YouTube.

Richard Posner has gotten a bit of attention on the Right for writing a piece bemoaning the intellectual deterioration of the conservative movement. Here’s an excerpt, I sense intellectual deterioration of the once-vital conservative movement in the United States. As I shall explain, this may be a testament to its success. Until the late 1960s […]

Since November, liberals have used Barack Obama’s personal popularity as a weapon to intimidate Republicans into supporting Democratic policies. For example, when Florida conservative Senate candidate Marco Rubio debuted a TV ad criticizing his Republican rival Charlie Crist’s support of Obama’s $789 billion “stimulus” bill, liberal blogger Greg Sargent pretended to be astonished: Another mark […]

The biggest generation is about to be the biggest retired generation. Do you think a generation nicknamed the “Me Generation” will suddenly become the generous generation? No. The market lost value so the Boomers lost their retirements. They were overmortgaged just as their health declined (it was a shock that they were getting older). Let’s […]

“She [Elizabeth Edwards] may be smart, but she doesn’t seem to know much about men.” — Maureen Dowd, May 6, 2009 The hypocrisy of Elizabeth Edwards is apparent even before her recent interview with Oprah Winfrey begins. In the current issue of her magazine, Oprah writes that Mrs. John Edwards told her, “We’re not fancy […]

Things are not all fairy dust and unicorn “wind” up on Capitol Hill. Kucinich slams Obama: Healthcare savings ‘unconscionable rip-off’ The Obama administration’s plan announced yesterday to save trillions in healthcare costs is an “unconscionable rip-off of the American people,” Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) argued Tuesday. Kucinich slammed the administration’s deal, brokered with insurers, labor, […]

I read and liked Shaunti and Jeff Feldhahn’s For Men Only: A Straightforward Guide to the Inner Lives of Women; so when I saw that they were releasing that book, along with For Women Only: What You Need to Know about the Inner Lives of Men as part of a new set, For Couples Only: […]

Remember when Obama said that in front of his little grasshoppers, er, House Democrats, during a speechin Williamsburg in early February? Remember when Obama and the Democrats were telling us that the Generational Theft Act had to be passed RIGHT NOW otherwise Bad Things would happen, that the economy would never recover, so no one […]

One of the myths Democrats are going to try to continue to promote is that 95% of Americans are getting a tax cut. Of course that means they’re politically prohibited from raising income taxes. But that certainly doesn’t mean that they must refrain from other taxes and fees which will impact 100% of Americans and, […]

Not since 7-year-old Autum (sic) Ashante started composing poems about the evil white man and his remorseless paradigms has liberal-land seen a prodigy like Sameek Das, 8, of High Peaks Elementary in whacky Boulder, Colorado. Google discovered Sameek with its Doodle 4 Google contest… …a competition where we invite K-12 students to play around with […]

A true environmentalist forms a symbiotic relationship with the other animals with whom humans share this Spaceship Earth. Hair can help reinforce reciprocal bonds. Pet hair should not be discarded, but used to make environmentally friendly clothing: Utilizing your pet’s hair to make clothing, may seem a little bit odd, but it’s a great way […]

I can’t thank each of you enough for your response to my post about President Obama seeking to strip conscience protections for doctors, nurses, pharmacists and medical students. So many of you contacted Health and Human Services and also encouraged your family and friends to do the same. It’s impossible to tell how many comments […]

The primary goal of liberals is to mislead the American public about what they really feel, while the primary goal of conservatives is to explain to the American public what they really think. Similarly, conservatives are forever trying to have a debate on the facts while liberals work incessantly to turn the discussion to motivations, […]

My latest American Issues Project column delves into the American psyche. I think the overspending spree that both individual Americans and then the banks and ultimately the Fed partook in the last few years can be traced back to the 9/11 attacks. I’m interested in what you guys think about my theorizing. Here’s a bit […]

I found some newly uploaded Milton Friedman Videos on YouTube. Enjoy.

Hi guys! A couple months ago, the Republican National Committee asked the grassroots for feedback to help the GOP get going the right direction with the use of technology. People responded via Facebook, Ning groups, and blogs. Maybe you thought your feedback didn’t matter. Well, as with all things transitional, it often takes extra effort […]

We have a primary shaping up in Florida between Charlie Crist, a pro-stimulus, pro-amnesty, Arlen Specter style “Republican” and Marco Rubio, a young, Hispanic, anti-amnesty conservative who was the Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives for the 2007 and 2008 legislative sessions. Admittedly Crist, who’s the current governor, is the heavy favorite — but, […]

I supported Michael Steele when he ran for Chair, support him now, and think it would be a big mistake to try to dump him as Party Chair. Furthermore, as anyone who read RWN during the primaries knows, I am not a fan of Mitt Romney — at all. Still, these comments from Steele about […]

Hey, there’s another of those really cool climate change conferences going on in yet another exotic vacation spot. Anyone surprised that the folks who claim man-induced climate change will kill us all EVERYBODY PANIC have gone somewhere nice? With planes, certainly using cars, maybe limo’s, eating well….. MANADO (North Sulawesi), May 11 (Bernama) — A […]

“A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling ‘Stop!’” — William F. Buckley During the first World War, Kaiser Wilhelm supposedly referred to the British troops as a “contemptible little army.” The British soldiers, rather than ignoring the insult of their enemy, adopted the nickname of the “Old Contemptibles” and then proceeded […]

First we have the “car czar” threatening investors with audits and vilification, and now we have a report that a union was inappropriately involved in matters in which it should not have been included: Officials in the governor’s office say a politically powerful union may have had inappropriate influence over the Obama administration’s decision to […]

Have a bucket handy. Yesterday WaPo delivered an obsequious ode to Michelle Obama’s arms: Her arms are representative of a new kind of woman: young, strong, vigorous, intelligent, accomplished, sexual, powerful, embracing and, most of all, loving. Today is Mother’s Day. Today we should celebrate Michelle Obama’s arms as the arms of a mother. This […]