Imagine for a moment that Mitt Romney had spent 2o years of his life attending the sermons of a right-wing zealot who claimed it was America’s fault it was attacked on 9/11 and that America should be damned. Further imagine that Romney was on record as saying that this man was a mentor and a close friend. [...]
Income equalitarians like President Obama really don’t want to hear that the incomes of the poor and middle class rise when those of the rich rise because it destroys their argument that the rich are benefiting at the expense of the lower classes. Cornell has conducted another study that says just that and, once again, [...]
Liberals like Chris Matthews mock conservatives when they point out that the left uses uber-radical Saul Alinsky’s scorched earth tactics in order to shove their statist agenda down our throats, but here is yet another case in point that shows that is precisely what they are doing. Dan Mitchell of Cato reports that the OECD has produced [...]
I found something on Greg Mankiw‘s blog that seems to explain why so many Americans bought homes and signed mortgages they could not afford thereby causing the housing crisis: In today’s NY Times, Robert Shiller reports: Even after taking into account factors like income and education, the authors concluded that people with relatively high I.Q.âs typically [...]
Transcripts of First Organizional Meeting of the Unfair Campaign against Racism Chairman of the Board: The goal of our organization is to get people to speak more honestly about race in America; to encourage an honest dialogue and understanding between the races. Major Funder: Great! I move that we encourage people to talk honestly about race by placing dozens of [...]
Listen to left-lurching tax law professor and tax blogger Linda Beale wax indignant about Greece’s austerity program (emphasis is mine): The austerity demands, in order for a sovereign nation to pay back its debt to mostly big banks that lent money recklessly in the leadup to the financial crisis, make no sense at all. If [...]
When you treat adults like infants who can’t wipe their own butts, you shouldn’t be surprised if they have tantrums when you stop wiping their butts for them. The Telegraph reports that Greek protestors greet bailout vote with fire-bombs: Fire-bombs and tear gas greeted negotiations at Greek Parliament on Sunday over the contraversial loan and austerity package [...]
A fellow named Charles Sykes has written a new book titled A Nation of Takers: America’s Addiction to Getting Something for Nothing. In the first pages of his book Sykes presents a few scenes from what he calls “Moocher Nation.” Here’s my favorite scene: Q. Why are you here? A. To get some money Q. What [...]
I winced this morning when former Pennsylvania Governor, Democrat Ed Rendell, said that he hoped the Supreme Court majority that had decided the Citizens United case was paying close attention to the corrosive influence of super-pacs in the Republican primary.¹ Mr. Rendell apparently believes that the Citizen United Justices should have based their decision not on what the law was, but on what [...]
One of the first rules of debate is that you should endeavor to understand your opponent’s argument – both the strong and weak points – better than he does. The pro-tax left is, apparently, unaware of this rule. Count left-leaning economist Robert H. Frank among those who simply do not understand why many conservative Americans, the [...]
BusinessWeek’s Julie Hirschfield Davis wonders why Mitt Romney says he won’t release his income tax returns: Romney, a multimillionaire who is by far the wealthiest of the Republican presidential candidates, said he has no plans to release his income tax returns if he wins his partyâs nomination, setting himself apart from past nominees in both [...]
“Go to your bosom; knock there and request your heart what it doth know that is like my brother’s fault.” – Measure for Measure, Act II, Scene ii – Congressman James Clyburn was asked by MSNBC’s non-partisan Newt-hater, Mika Brzezinski, what he thought of Gingrich’s recent surge in the Republican polls. Clyburn said, with a [...]
Don Surber of DailyMail reports that 60% of Americans want to see accross the board spending cuts: One good thing about overspending by $4 trillion since Barack Obama become president: It eliminated all the sacred cows. An overwhelming majority not seen in 39 years wants every federal government program to have its budget cut. Every [...]
I was re-reading King Lear last night and these two lines uttered by the title character caught my eye: Plate sin with gold and the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks; Arm it in rags, a pygmy’s straw does pierce it. A perfect motto for the occupy wall street movement, don’t you think? The rich can buy [...]
Here’s Megan McArdle of The Atlantic on income inequality: I don’t care about income inequality. I care about the absolute condition of the poor–whether they are hungry, cold, and sick. But I do not care about the gap between their incomes, and those of Warren Buffett and Bill Gates. Nor the ratio of Gates and Buffett’s incomes to [...]
Daniel J. Mitchell writes in Helping to Explain Greeceâs Collapse in a Single Picture: Politicians in Europe have spent decades creating a fiscal crisis by violating Mitchellâs Golden Rule and letting government grow faster than the private sector. As a result, government is far too big today, and nations such as Greece are in the process [...]
Corbett Daly of Political Hot Sheet reports that, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton shared a laugh with a television news reporter moments after hearing deposed Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi had been killed. “We came, we saw, he died,” she joked when told of news reports of Qaddafi’s death by an aide in between formal interviews. [...]
I’ve heard of fear-mongering before but this latest example from Vice President Joe Biden takes the proverbial cake: If the Republicans don’t pass this bill, then rape will continue to rise. Murder will continue to rise; rape will continue to rise; all crime will continue to rise. This is despicable and cheap. Think about it. Any congressman could propose [...]
Our left-wing tax blogger friends James Maule and Linda Beale avidly support the Occupy Wall Street movement. Together, Maule and Beale have written dozens of posts about out how middle-class conservatives – tea partiers, in particular – have been victimized by right-wing lies about taxes. Well, the folks at Daily Intel have polled 50 Occupy [...]
The irony is richer than Warren Buffett’s secretary. Reuters reports that the Occupy Wall Street mob, after two short weeks of relatively peaceful occupying, has gone violent in a global day of rage (emphasis is mine): Hundreds of hooded, masked protesters rampaged through Rome in some of the worst violence in the Italian capital for years Saturday, [...]