Feb 25, 2014 – He was portrayed as a representative of Wal-Mart, with the full burden of their alleged Sins Against the Little Guy piled upon his … Below the photo, the writer – Aimee Picchi – attributes the following question to me. … Companies at Wal-mart are castigated as exploiters of the little guy, without recognition of all the things they do to improve the…

Feb 21, 2014 – The clarification: the Denver Post isn’t exactly familiar with the tax penalty. $95 is a minimum. … would buy health insurance is if the federal tax penalty is more than the annual costs of the policy.” … The system was designed under two assumptions: one, that people would go Full Metal Big Green Guy if a mandate with any kind of teeth…

Mar 7, 2014 – Conservative governors who know the freedom of the individual must come before the power of the state. … The contrast with blue states is crystal clear. Pick any two. Well, heck, let’s big the biggest two – New York and California.  … The vision that wins out either the big government, protectionist, nanny state version offered by liberal leaders or the limited government…

Mar 20, 2014 – by the leaders of the USSR. … , but by the rule of the gun. … The reluctance of the Ukraine to join the “customs union” has held the idea in check.…

Mar 13, 2014 – My old pal Eric Schmidt – you know, the guy who was hanging out in Obama’s Chicago campaign headquarters on Election Day eve in … we are testing, the next big thing we are inventing, etc. … Through the glass of the Fread v.…

Mar 12, 2014 – Just as the last refuge of the poltroon is patriotism, the last refuge of the GOP poltroon is comparing oneself with Reagan.   … Well, almost all of us in the party are big fans of Ronald Reagan,” Paul said. … It is here the guy who is against “tweaking” the Russians vows he won’t let Putin get away with it and he’ll build missile defense…

Mar 27, 2014 – Chuck Todd tweeted that this was a “Big unforced error on Braley’s part…not just elitest but un-Iowan to attack another Iowan the way … Which is also ironic for a guy who has mocked his Twitter followers’ spelling in the past. 3. … There’s more to be said about the GOP field – Jacobs has polled of late as the frontrunner, while Ernst has put on a big p.r. push…

Mar 24, 2014 – – the problem for the Little Guy is that efforts to allocate wealth by force inevitably diminish the overall wealth of society.   … And these big, compulsive attempts to address “inequality” end up corrupting the people they’re supposed to benefit.  … And that, of course, is one of the big reasons why Marxism 2.0 will never be interpreted by ambitious leftist politicians as a clarion…

Mar 22, 2014 – is claiming that the original Tax Foundation report was tainted by Big Tobacco money, and that the problem “is a lot smaller than … The trick is in knowing a guy who will take it off of your hands. … knew the guy who did, and of course he would be happy to go help take that guy out.…

Apr 8, 2014 – Considering that one of the other liberal causes of the hour involves comparing the expense of picking up a free voter ID card at the … Big Government imposes extra burdens on activities it disfavors all the time, as well as subsidizing activities it finds desirable, … They might have lots of time on their hands… but, as with the guy stranded on a desert island with a fat bankroll, no place meaningful…

Apr 19, 2014 – needs to go to the big city and show everyone. … Paul sought out James and Peter — Paul, the guy Jesus himself had told to go preach to the Gentiles, went to find Jesus’s brother who … Here’s the guy who escorted Jesus out of town and wouldn’t show up to the funeral because his brother was an embarrassing nutter.…

Apr 28, 2014 – Directly negotiate with the Speaker of the House and the new Senate Majority Leader. Clean house in the IRS. … Moe Lane (crosspost) PS: Your favorite big-ticket item is probably not on this list because first we need to get the President to … Once we get that done, then we can see if Barack Obama can handle big-guy decisions.  …

Apr 25, 2014 – By Wednesday the sharks could smell the blood in the water. … Just to add to the already hypocritical relationship between big green donor Steyer and his friends in the Senate like Mark Udall, … Not exactly the guy I would want bankrolling my campaign, but then I am not a democrat.…

Apr 25, 2014 – That’s a big part of their bodice-ripping enthusiasm for the work of new-wave Marxist Thomas Piketty, who gives them a load of economic … There’s no way to clean out the treasure vaults of the Evil Rich with tax and regulatory flamethrowers without burning the Little Guy … of the sun and shifting of the wind, while big-shot TV stars and film producers soar overhead in private airplanes.  …

Apr 24, 2014 – The Left hates the idea of a big investor class filling up the middle income brackets.   … The down side to success in their efforts to push the Little Guy out of the market is that the Little Guy has less reason to celebrate … Another big reason Obama won’t be taking any bows for the stock market is the American Left’s new fascination with the work of French…

Oct 19, 2012 – He takes responsibility for his leadership decisions as President about as much as I take responsibility for playing the wrong guy … Here’s how President Obama tries to just laugh the whole deal off and get back to the really gut-level critical stuff like Big Bird … Oh well, better luck for the next guy. I’ll conclude this piece the same way I did the last one on this topic.…

Nov 5, 2012 – For most of the last few months, former Democratic Virginia Governor Douglas Wilder, the first black governor elected anywhere in the … Now comes the big blow, as Obama has lost Wilder’s endorsement. … Wilder’s trying to play the “above the fray” and “both sides of the fence” cards to the very end, but the message here is clear nonetheless…

Nov 1, 2012 – The endorsement comes after the Boustany campaign spent months trying to convince voters that Landry wanted to raise sales taxes to … After repeatedly denying, the ultimate backing on the subject of taxing steps in to tell Boustany “No.” … This is big and hopefully the news gets out there. If you’re in this district, spread the word and get this guy into this seat.…

Nov 1, 2012 – He’s a smart guy to be sure, but my buddy Sean Davis has a great must read about how you too can be the next Nate Silver with a cheap … Lastly, as a number of people have noted, including Sean Davis in this piece, the big issue this year is whether or not the state polls … I’m no baseball scout, but batting .200 when it counts won’t get you into the big leagues, let alone the All-Star game.…

Nov 1, 2012 – So, FTC is posturing about Google and antitrust, trying to paint itself as the poor little guy against the big, bad corporation, which … But at the same time I’m reminded of when Google painted itself the tiny victim of big, bad ISPs like MetroPCS and T-Mobile. … This isn’t some guy reselling his own stuff. This is a guy who was in the business of undercutting the copyright holders.…

Oct 31, 2012 – future is projected from the raw data, on the assumption that the future will behave like the past. … Consider an argument Michael Lewis makes in his book The Big Short: nearly everybody involved in the mortgage-backed securities market … (As it happened, the RCP averages at the end of the cycle did the same thing, as they did in 2008.)…

Nov 11, 2012 – If he loses women by as big as he is starting to lose the women, he cannot win.So Mitt Romney will be the nominee. … And voters would rather the guy they don’t like than they guy they don’t trust. … pose as the faces, voices, and writers of the conservative movement at large, keep throwing their lot in with a guy who keeps selling…

Nov 9, 2012 – “But I have real numbers.” […] “I’m very surprised, as digital guy, about the pushback people are getting” over Orca, Moffatt … Sources also said that arrogance played a big role, saying that the Romney campaign was a hostile battlefield of egos in which these … One source saying “they looked at the guy who could raise the most money in history as a ride” adding that “money no longer matters…

Nov 7, 2012 – Obama spent a ton of money over the summer doing the big thing you need to do against a non-incumbent: defining Romney in the eyes … , both national and statewide: 1) The Clueless Rich Guy: The wealthy or self-funded candidate with little or no political experience … Voters looking for change are a lot less likely to pull the lever for a guy who has been out of the fight that long.…

Nov 7, 2012 – Ultimately, the guy whom we knew thought he was better than anyone else was going to make statements revealing that attitude. … Finally, People, At The Presidential Level, More Often Than Not, Vote For “The Nice Guy.” … By conceding, falsely, that the arrogant jerk Obama was “a nice guy,” simply because that’s what the biased polling was saying, the…