And the framers of the US Constitution did not pick the number “nine” out of thin air. … Jefferson’s view was vindicated long ago, and Congress has incessantly spent money to promote the general welfare, and to take necessary … the States, the taxing power and the general welfare.…
The good news is that the Bush Tax Cuts are now permanent for some 98% of all taxpayers; the bad news is the 1-2 punch of the expiration … And the tax changes are most of the deal. … For most of the last decade, this goal has seemed like an extremist view: Making the Bush Tax Cuts permanent would drastically reduce…
Here the problem is that the current US President and Congress (The US Senate in particular)* have both spectacularly failed in their … Expenditures in TY$B
To view this monumental screw-up more dispassionately, we can take the Natural Log of the expenditure axis and … As Led Zepplin once put it, The Song Remains the Same.…
them to use the sidewalk space near the entrance of their stores,” the statement, which is excerpted in a notice on the state Girl … More likely, the concern was that by allowing one group (be it the Girl Scouts, the Red Cross or the Salvation Army) onto the stores … And I can tell you one thing: no matter your own view on the history and current role of unions, any business owner worth their salt…
hand was on the gun and her finger pulled the trigger. … The use of Sarah Palin’s target list is made even more hypocritical in view of the DLC’s use of targets on their own “target list” … As in other cases, the facts don’t really matter to the vile and vitriolic Left because the ends justify the means.…
comfort to the Left if the President learns the wrong lesson from it. … is green, with the result that the House flipped, the Senate almost flipped, and state governments went Republican across the country … And if they try the same thing again in two years, with the same people making the same arguments, they won’t like the choice that…
The race for Texas Speaker of the House is a key test for newly elected Republicans in the state. … Under the Texas Constitution, the Speaker is chosen on the floor of the Texas House by all members (Democrat and Republican) – and … Taylor saying they’d be delighted to avoid any problems with open meetings requirements by having the caucus meeting in public view…
The analogy between the slavery debate in the 19th century and the abortion debate in modern times is a solid one because both centered … However, to refuse to see the similarities and, instead, viewthe analogy as ignorant is to contemptuously dismiss the half of America … is the very definition of smugness.…
Short version: when looking at the deficit the CBO was forced by the then-majority party to make assumptions that they couldn’t make … One last note: this is why you want to have the majority in Congress, by the way. As Ranking Member of the Budget Committee, Rep. … Ryan also explained, for the slow of brain, why the Republicans are pushing this in the House even though they don’t control the Senate…
Yet by the same token, none of the three was a radical.
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The Russian immigrants seem to know the path the Democratic Party is leading the nation down far better than many Democrats, which … is why it seems the GOP is a better fit for the Russians. … the criticism of the Democratic Party is off-base.…
The Left gets its violent responder to hate speech, after all: the only problem is, from their point of view he’s aimed the wrong way … Eric Fuller a couple of days ago: the short version is that he was one of the victims of the Tucson attack of last week that killed … Despite the fact that the consensus is, from the President on down, that harsh political rhetoric had nothing to do with the attack…
The following is the first of a three-part series on the decline of unions. … The simplistic view of Ronald Reagan, the union-buster, stems from the 1981 PATCO strike and the “wide-spread union-busting” that followed … The first was the Staggers Rail Act and the other was the Motor Carrier Act.…
As we’ve witnessed over the past five days the left has pulled out all the stops to gain political advantage from the tragic shootings … Over the past decade the calls for the assassination of President Bush, the trashing of ROTC offices, the incitement of troops to mutiny … Paul Broun (R-Ga.) linked this view to the current occupant of the White House.…
conservative movement who are paying attention, but the bulk of those who are do not want Pollard released. … To say so stretches the very definition of “conservatives” to the point that the word has no meaning. … And Jenn Rubin.Count the majority of conservatives out.…
whole thing on the right wing. … Given the recent tragedy in Arizona, as well as the start of the new Congress, I wanted to take this opportunity to share a few words … base right there – is irrelevant to the Senator’s purpose, which is to transfer as much money from the pockets of the gullible to…
And the funny thing: all the Net Neutrality advocates in the world working in the White House were no big deal. … by ending the funding of the Tevatron device at Fermilab. … You can add South Korea to the list of countries investigating the WiSpy Street View scandal.…
Yet, on the same day, the Telegraph (ala Wikileaks) reported that the U.S. had planned “regime change” for the “past three years” while … The Role of Unions in the Tunisian Revolution. … Despite Feltman’s dim view of the trans-national nature of democratic movements, McInerney says, “I was in Cairo the day Ben Ali stepped…
While labor-management cooperation can be a good thing in the proper setting, the fact of the matter is, the implementation of the … Last Wednesday, January 19th, the National Council on Federal Labor-Management Relations held one of its joint meetings (view previous … say…the public (aka the taxpayers) and the union members themselves.…
His reference was to the mobilization of the United States after the Soviets launched the Sputnik satellite. … In the history of the United States, that world view is very recent.Alexander Graham Bell, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Bill Gates, Steve … The only saving grace for him is that it will not be remembered by the American public.…
Full text of the speech can be found at National Journal. Below, the word cloud of that transcript. … Here’s the word cloud (click to view full size):
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against the United States.Nothing could be further from the truth.While I am flattered (read: deeply insulted) that the left has decided … However, I do stand by it.Second, the accusation of the left is that both I and this site are calling for armed rebellion due to the … While a pro-abortion poster may never write about the topic, their world view is incompatible with the conservative community reflected…
In Soviet Russia, the scapegoat was the bourgeoisie; in Nazi Germany, it was the Jewish people; in America, it is the businessmen. … ’ is the standard for employers at the NLRB. … to union organizers and other officials who can explain to them the Union’s point of view with respect to organizational activities…
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2. … that slavery was a moral outrage.However, to refuse to see the similarities and, instead, viewthe analogy as ignorant is to contemptuously…
To the dorm room Machiavelli’s of the Obama administration the Arab Spring (or the al Qaeda Spring, depending upon your point of … The first problem was arming the rebels. … We know that the idea of the US arming the Libyan rebels was hotly debated inside the administration with the State Department, under…