Jan 2, 2013 – 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…

Dec 31, 2012 – 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.…

Jan 10, 2011 – 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…

Jan 9, 2011 – 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.…

Jan 7, 2011 – 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…

Jan 6, 2011 – 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…

Jan 20, 2011 – 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, view the analogy as ignorant is to contemptuously dismiss the half of America … is the very definition of smugness.…

Jan 19, 2011 – 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…

Jan 17, 2011 – Yet by the same token, none of the three was a radical. Please click here for the rest of the post. 2. … Please click here for the rest of the post. 3. … Please click here for the rest of the post.…

Jan 16, 2011 – 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.…

Jan 15, 2011 – 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…

Jan 13, 2011 – 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.…

Jan 13, 2011 – 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.…

Jan 12, 2011 – 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.…

Jan 11, 2011 – 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…

Jan 11, 2011 – 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.…

Jan 30, 2011 – 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…

Jan 27, 2011 – 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.…

Jan 26, 2011 – 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.…

Jan 25, 2011 – 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): OPEN THREAD…

Jan 25, 2011 – 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…

Jan 24, 2011 – 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…

Jan 21, 2011 – the business of running the world’s greatest economy.Unfortunately, it turned out that the new President’s idea of the country’s “ … click here for the rest of the post. 2. … that slavery was a moral outrage.However, to refuse to see the similarities and, instead, view the analogy as ignorant is to contemptuously…

May 9, 2014 – 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…

May 8, 2014 – Well, the only thing “dark” and in the mold of Washington special interests is Dinsdale’s disingenuous and contradictory view on the … Everything we do is out in the open with full disclosure and consistent points of view on all of the issues. It’s real simple.  … That is the commonsense view of the country class.…