The True Disciple of Saul Alinsky
From Pat Buchanan: Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner’s opening bid to Speaker John Boehner, a demand for $1.6 trillion in new taxes, was not meant as a serious offer. It was an ultimatum couched in…
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Rand Paul: We Should Let Dems Raise Taxes And Then Let Them Own It
Rand Paul is right with this because the learning must continue. Of course as I say every day our side must learn how to communicate. SEN. RAND PAUL: I have yet another thought on…
Read MoreRepublicans Miss the Point on ‘Fiscal Cliff’ Debate
Scott Rasmussen doesn’t quite get it but says a few things in this linked post that actually bump up against the truth. Republicans never have been in the game. And of course by the…
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The Underworked Public Employee
Uh, no kidding. Remember the “definition of the word ‘is’”? Now we’re discussing the definition of ‘work’. From the NCPA: Overstaffing is a serious problem in government, and the best evidence is a simple…
Read MoreThe Roots of Our Economic Trouble: The unseen cost of big government
An excellent post from George Leef: Ever since the election, most of the talk in the nation has been about the “fiscal cliff.” Listening to it, you would think that whether the economy gets…
Read MoreThe GOP’s weakest leg
Gary Bauer makes a great point over at Human Events: The Republican coalition is often described as a three-legged stool made up of foreign policy, social issue and fiscal conservatives. It’s an apt metaphor…
Read MoreWhat We Should Care About
From Bruce Walker at American Thinker: The debates in post-election Washington and the exhortations of conservative punditry seem focused almost entirely on economics. But if our politics is built around economic concerns alone, we…
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Tax Exodus: Five States that Residents Are Fleeing
Can you blame them for leaving? From the NCPA: Cash-strapped states are finding it increasingly difficult to find new sources of revenue. Many states have turned to tax increases to sustain current levels of…
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It’s the culture, stupid
Here’s someone else saying what I’m saying — Laura Hollis from Townhall.com: We have been trying to fight this battle every four years at the voting booth. It is long past time we admit…
Read MoreWhy $16 Trillion Only Hints at the True U.S. Debt
If you meditate on these numbers a few minutes you’ll see just how incompetent most of the people are that we’ve been electing to federal office for a very long time. From the NCPA:…
Read MoreCongressman: Obama’s Tax Increases Fund Government for Eight Days
It’d be funny if it weren’t so pathetic. From BigGovernment.com: President Barack Obama has proposed raising taxes on the rich to put America’s fiscal house in order, but critics say federal spending is so…
Read MoreRepublicans Lead the Best-Run States in America, Democrats Dominate the Worst
Of course you know Illinois is on this list. From TheBlaze.com: The annual Best and Worst Run States in America survey by 24/7 Wall St. came out today, revealing that the top 5 states…
Read MoreLearning the Hard Way
From AmericanThinker.com: What liberals forget, or choose to ignore, [are] the tough natural consequences of immoral behavior. In other words, winning elections isn’t going to bring back a child killed in the womb or…
Read MoreHealth benefits: still richer in the public sector
This should surprise no one. From Public Sector Inc.: A new Kaiser Foundation “Snapshot” of findings from Kaiser’s annual “Healthcare Benefits Survey” demonstrates, yet again, that government employees’ health benefits are more generous than…
Read MoreMisreading the Fiscal Cliff: No one, including Republicans, is focusing on the right issues
Michael Tanner at National Review says what our GOP leaders would say if they had any sense and understood communications: The fiscal cliff is now less than six weeks away. Negotiators are reportedly locked…
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