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Inequality on the Brain

Relevance: 15%      Posted on: January 30, 2014

We’re told that “economic inequality” is on the rise . . . by the same people who took our tax dollars to bail out some folks on Wall Street and elsewhere, surely making more than minimum wage. But, once one investigates the issue beyond the buncombe level of egalitarian hysteria,…

Income, Inequality, Insanity

Relevance: 14%      Posted on: December 18, 2013

With it now declared to be an act of racism to dare refer to the federal government’s dramatically increased and disastrous role in our healthcare as “Obamacare” — even though President Barack Obama, himself, once did so proudly, before its onerous provisions were triggered and began to explode in the…

Kasich — Governor, Pope or Schizo?

Relevance: 14%      Posted on: December 15, 2015

On Friday, presidential candidate and Ohio Governor John Kasich rambled on for most of an hour before a room full of C&S Wholesale Grocers employees in Keene, New Hampshire. The last question came from a young man who brought up the Citizens United decision, and asked if Kasich “had a…

The Price of Liberty

Relevance: 13%      Posted on: July 4, 2012

Happy Independence Day! Though I understand if you are not feeling all that exultant, today. Last week’s Supreme Court decision allowing the unconstitutional 2,700-page monstrosity known as Obamacare to stand was, well, bracing. We can soberly see how far our great country has fallen from the Republic our Founders envisioned.…

Attack of the Dreaded Spoilers

Relevance: 13%      Posted on: September 19, 2017

by Paul Jacob   A spoiler, in politics, is a challenger whose main effect is to ruin it for insider politicians. It’s an obvious pejorative. But is the contempt for spoilers deserved? The way politicians and some in the media talk, it is as if competition were a bad thing.…

And the Hypocritical Horse-Trading You Rode In On

Relevance: 13%      Posted on: October 14, 2014

A funny thing happened on the way to Medicaid expansion in Virginia: it didn’t happen. Governor Terry McAuliffe demanded expansion. The Washington Post and other state-worshiping media outlets insisted on its passage. The Post explained, “there remains only one reasonable solution: Republicans must ultimately compromise on expanding Medicaid.” But Republican…

A Sudden Case of Homesickness

Relevance: 13%      Posted on: November 17, 2015

“I want to go home,” Arkansas State Senator Jon Woods whimpered last weekend. The poor, pitiful politician — announcing he would not seek election to another legislative term — cried that he had not “been fishing with [his] brother in a year.” “I have friends in my district who I…

Rand Paul is wrong

Relevance: 13%      Posted on: June 6, 2013

“Sometimes conservatives get tagged as being against all government,” said Sen. Rand Paul at a Reagan Library event the other day. “I’m not against all government. I’m actually for $2.6 trillion dollars worth,” he said. “I’m for spending what comes in, but nothing in excess of what comes in.” Yes, he’s…

Obama Promises Accountability, Stop Laughing

Relevance: 13%      Posted on: February 12, 2014

“I promise you that we hold everybody up and down the line accountable,” President Barack Obama told Bill O’Reilly of Fox News during last Sunday’s Super Bowl interview . . . and with a straight face. When studies show one in 20 food stamp transactions to be fraudulent; when the…

What We Can Do and What We Cannot Do

Relevance: 12%      Posted on: December 20, 2012

When 20 kindergartners and first-graders and six adults are senselessly slaughtered at a small town elementary school by a heavily armed lunatic, it’s normal to want to do something — anything — to help make certain such a horrific event never happens again. But “never again” has proven a very…