Archive for April 2014
Best graduation speech ever was given at Berkley in 2007 by Thomas J. Sargent
The best was also the shortest, only 335 words. Stated were 12 economic concepts every college graduate should know. Sargent started out by saying, “Economics is organized common sense. Here is a short list of valuable lessons that our beautiful subject teaches.” Here is lesson number 10: 10. When a government spends, its citizens eventually…
Read MoreThe reason liberalism is so common is it allows people to form strong opinions without mental effort
The flapdoodle nonsense earnestly spoken in the interviews in the video below about the NRA and guns remains astonishing no matter how familiar it is. These people truly believe it is immoral to use a weapon to defend oneself against a deadly threat from a criminal attack. Only the police should have guns, period. They…
Read MoreA lesson in how to stand up to a left-wing operative posing as a newsman
Nevada Assemblywoman Michele Fiore was interviewed about the Cliven Bundy standoff against the BLM by MSNBC host Chris Hayes; he tried to use her to promote his left-wing narrative and Harry Reid “domestic terrorists” nonsense, but she was having none of that. This is good.
Read MoreObama throws vulnerable Dems under the bus with indefinite delay of Keystone XL pipeline
With careful management of the news cycle, Obama chose Good Friday to announce an indefinite delay of the Keystone XL pipeline. He won’t face questions until Monday when other news may shadow the gravity his decision. The Keystone XL pipeline project has already been exhaustively reviewed and has passed environmental scrutiny. If it’s ever allowed…
Read MoreReaction to Harry Reid’s accusation that Bundy Ranch Supporters are “Domestic Terrorists”
“They hold themselves out as patriots. They’re not. They’re nothing more than domestic terrorists” — Harry Reid Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com
Read MoreTime to stop thinking Hillary will be Dem nominee in 2016 — It ain’t going to happen
Breitbart: The Bigger they are… As if all the bad headlines she’s getting weren’t enough… Look at the polls. This week’s Fox News poll has Clinton’s favorable rating at its lowest point in six years. She is at 49 percent favorable, 45 percent unfavorable—similar to her 47 percent favorable, 46 percent unfavorable rating when she ended…
Read MoreClimate Change Reconsidered — NIPPC Report
The Non-GovernmentaL International Panel on Climate Change (NIPPC) issues its report that contradicts everything recently reported by the warming alarmist United Nations International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and says, “IPCC has exaggerated the negative impacts of global warming and rising atmospheric CO2 levels: We find no net harm to the global environment or to…
Read MorePutin is not a genius — He doesn’t need to be
Because we are complete idiots. A Google search with the terms “Putin” and “genius” yields over 10 million hits. If I hear another pundit’s panegyric to Putin’s great intellect, I’ll lose my lunch. Putin is not that smart; the trouble is that we are complete idiots. When Ukraine imploded, our leaders–from Victoria Nuland at the State Department…
Read MoreDemocrats are waging a war on the middle class
The policies of Obama and the Democrats are increasingly favoring Wall Street and the Washington Beltway elite while making the life at the bottom a bit easier but also locking people in and preventing them from moving up into the middle class. As for the middle class itself, only government workers have seen any improvement…
Read MoreQuote of the Day — Race in the Obama Years
Fred Siegel, A Glimpse Into the Political Future, commenting on an article by Jonathan Chiat on race in the Obama years. “Liberals,” Chait writes, “dwell in a world of paranoia of a white racism that has seeped out of American history in the Obama years and lurks everywhere, mostly undetectable.” Similarly, he goes on, “Conservatives…
Read MoreFree Will and Human Dignity — A Love Story
How does Classical Liberalism differ from present-day “liberalism?” Conservatism?
Read MoreRepublican Senate Primary In Iowa Gets Interesting
Breitbart reports that conservative Republican Joni Ernst is challenging wealthy and liberal Republican Mark Jacobs, who is the leading contender. Well, he was the leading contender until Sarah Palin endorsed Joni Ernst and will headline a SHE_PAC rally for her in Des Moines on April 27th. Now Joni Ernst has a 2-point lead, even though…
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