Generally, I don’t begrudge how people spend money they’ve earned. What they choose to do with their money is between them and God. However, what I won’t tolerate is the filthy rich blowing their own money while at the same time telling those less well off how to spend theirs. I wasn’t going to comment […]
Today’s San Diego Union-Tribune took a look at one of the local “stimulus” projects targeted by senators Tom Coburn and John McCain at a press conference last week. The “project” is actually a study on alcohol abuse and drunk driving that received $497,117 from the nearly $1 trillion stimulus bill. So, what we’re talking about […]
Thirty-seven years ago, 7 justices on the U.S. Supreme Court took the issue of abortion out of the hands of the American people and stuffed it in the penumbras and emanations of the constitution. It’s been a political football ever since. Yesterday, a federal judge took the issue of gay marriage out of the hands […]
I mentioned Moody’s chief economist Mark Zandi of the “unemployment benefits are really stimulative” last week to point out the ridiculous nature of his claims. Well, Geoff over at Innocent Bystanders took a look at Zandi’s report and finds that – suprise – government spending doesn’t have a multiplicative effect on the economy greater than […]
In tomorrow’s Wall Street Journal Arthur Laffer has an excellent op-ed where he asks the following question: Anyone who is familiar with the historical data available from the IRS knows full well that raising income tax rates on the top 1% of income earners will most likely reduce the direct tax receipts from the now […]
An oft-ignored bit of insanity in the health-care bill was the expansion in the use of IRS form 1099. For those of you who don’t know what it is, a 1099 has been used for as long as I can remember for businesses to report money paid to independent contractors. I got a 1099 from […]
As I was running an errand earlier today, I was listening to a local talk show host interview my congresswoman, Lois Capps. It was the typical softball interview you expect from a small-town talk show host. But there was one statement made by Capps that I’d heard peddled before, but I couldn’t believe anyone other […]
Shirley Sherrod, who was reflexively fired by the USDA a week or so back has announced she intends to sue Andrew Breitbart. No lawyer with half a brain – or working on a contingency basis – will take the case. Why? Well, a week later Chris Matthews figures it out. The Newsbusters transcript: CHRIS MATTHEWS: […]
When your main claim to fame is meaningless platitudes, you’re going to get caught occasionally.
A couple of things jumped out at me recently as I've been reading some of how the purportedly mainstream media is covering the Journo-List and Tea Party "Racism" issues. First, the Journo-List, from Politico's Roger Simon: Recently, however, the conservative website The Daily Caller, run by Tucker Carlson, got hold of many Journolist e-mails and […]