Archive for December 2010
Why It’s The Little Guy, Not the Fat Cats, That Most Need The Protection of Strong Property Rights
Columbia University vs. The Little Guy The fact is the powerful and connected — the Bloombergs, the Bollingers, et al — don’t really need strong legal protections. Nobody’s going to take their property anyway. (When’s the last time you heard of a rich guy’s home being condemned?) For those with juice, things seldom get as…
Read MoreGreat News — 1,900 Page Omnibus Spending Bill Fails, To Be Replaced by One Page Continuing Resolution to Fund the Government Until the New Congress Arrives — Pomeroy Estate Tax Amendment Fails — Final Tax Compromise Passes
Mitch McConnell pulled this one out of the fire — He got most of the RINO appropriators who were caught with their hands in the cookie jar to reverse course. Without the RINOS Harry Reid threw in the towel. How sweet it is. Elections do have consequences. Tea Party victory celebrations going on now —…
Read MoreRepeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell in the Military Seems Likely
If not now, then later, I think the Democrats in Congress will eventually get this. I don’t understand why they want it, or why they are not willing to allow the military to make its own rules on this. They don’t do anything out of principle, it’s always for votes. Gays themselves are not numerous…
Read MoreFaith In Government Declines to Lowest Since 1991
From the December issue of AEI’s Political Report: Today three in ten have no confidence that when Washington tackles a problem it will be solved. That is the highest response on the question since it was first asked in 1991. Only three in ten? Are the other seven in ten hopeless dreamers? And it used to…
Read MoreShocking! Florida School Board Shooter Was A Left Winger
Who knew? Clay Duke, who opened fire on a Florida school board Tuesday, was a left-wing kook railing against “the rich.” He left a post on his Facebook page that he called his “last testament.” In it he blames the wealthy for his troubles. He also linked to a slug of “progressive” websites such as…
Read MoreErin Brockovich Cried But Nobody Died Because It Was All An Hysterical Over Production
Where Does Pacific Gas & Electric go to get its $333 Million back? That’s the amount it paid to settle the famous (now infamous) Erin Brockovich class-action suit in 1996. The California utility company released a plume of hexavalent chromium 6 from a Hinkley-based natural gas pipeline station that was supposed to be a toxic…
Read MoreHey Buddy, Can You Spare A Subsidy?
Government subsidies now exist for just about everything and everybody. From ethanol to sugar to milk to rich corporate farmers, subsidies abide. But government cannot give any citizen a subsidy without taxing some other citizen since government has no money except what it takes from us in taxes. So here’s an idea. Everyone receiving a…
Read MoreEye For An Eye Justice
The Iranian Regime has sentenced a man to be blinded with acid as punishment for throwing acid in the face of his lovers husband, blinding him. Iran practices “qisas”, or eye-for-an-eye retribution. In Iran, the victim has the right to demand it. Supposedly, it is not done unless the victim exercises that right. One can…
Read MoreIt’s A Sad Day For Me — My Flapjacks Are Gone Because They Might Be Racist?
This is a sad day. I finished my last box of Aunt Jemima Buckwheat Pancake mix. Quaker discontinued that line of the brand a while back. Now all the stock I had in the larder is gone. I’ll never slather butter and maple syrup over those flapjacks again. Aunt Jemima buttermilk mix is still everywhere…
Read MoreThis Has To Stop
When the police beating of Rodney King occurred on March 19, 1991 it was coincidental that a man with a video camera caught it on tape from a distance. Police were not even aware they were being video taped. These days nearly every cell phone has video capability and nearly everyone has a cell phone.…
Read MoreHauser’s Law: Why Obama’s War On The “Rich” Won’t Help The Economy
Data collected by Kurt Hauser of Stanford University shows that Government revenue from the income tax has hovered around 19% of GDP no matter what the tax rates happen to be. Raising the rates, especially the highest marginal rate, does not increase revenue but actually reduces it. That’s because GDP shrinks when taxes on the…
Read MoreQuote of The Day
“The way Wikileaks finds secret documents you’d think they would have found Obama’s college transcripts and his birth certificate.” — Unknown
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