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    A Tale of Four Countries- Part 3: New Zealand and Agricultural Reform

    By: davenj1 (Diary)  |  July 25th at 03:46 PM  | 

    For anyone who is an opponent of corporate welfare and pork, you must surely be aware that one of the most wasteful federal programs are “farm bills.” For anyone who believes in free market solutions to problems, especially as they apply to agriculture, you must surely be aware of the 1980s reforms in New Zealand. For any opponent of farm subsidies, New Zealand is the | Read More »

    Liberty: Just an Afterthought to Obama

    By: davenj1 (Diary)  |  December 10th at 08:25 AM  | 

    So, President Obama has decided to channel the populism of Teddy Roosevelt. The liberal media is all goo-goo over his speech in Kansas as one of the defining speeches of his Presidency. Of course, we have heard that one before several times. The fact is that this was not the defining speech of his Presidency but of his re-election campaign. No doubt we will hear | Read More »

    Understanding OWS: part 1

    By: davenj1 (Diary)  |  October 29th at 10:25 AM  | 

    It is increasingly diificult to ascertain the true goals of the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement. Comparisons have been made to the Tea Party. As best I can now tell, the whole thing was basically instigated by a renegade Canadian advertising company that extols and anti-consumerism agenda who previous claim to fame was a campaign called “Turn Your TV Off” Day. Regardless, the protests are | Read More »

    Some Thoughts on My Favorite Moonbat Liberal

    By: davenj1 (Diary)  |  September 26th at 10:38 AM  | 

    On September 8th and September 15th, my favorite liberal, Democratic moonbat, Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, had two “Go Obama” press releases that basically said the same thing about his American Jobs Act, otherwise known as Stimulus II, or Special Interest Payoff (insert number here). Without getting into the “soak the rich” rhetoric and double counting of savings from the wind down of wars in Iraq | Read More »

    Us Racist, Jihadist, Terrorists

    By: davenj1 (Diary)  |  August 5th at 08:09 AM  | 

    So, the great debt ceiling debate and controversy is over for now and the post mortems are being written as to who won and who lost. Although the devil is in the details and we really don’t know much of the details, it is a wait and see game now. From my standpoint, the inclusion of some trigger mechanism to force cuts under threat of | Read More »

    Post Mortem #3: The Role of Outside Spending and Unions

    By: davenj1 (Diary)  |  November 6th at 05:12 PM  | 

      One of the most bizarre campaign themes of Obama down the stretch was his complaints about outside money from mysterious places and donors influencing the outcomes of elections.  Nancy Pelosi told Democratic benefactors that “everything was going great” until there was a flood of outside money pouring into races.  Apparently, I missed that part of the nightly news where San Francisco was somehow magically | Read More »

    What Money Says About Politics

    By: davenj1 (Diary)  |  September 10th at 09:39 AM  | 

         I am not a particular fan of the OpenSecrets.org website, especially the parts where they editorialize about the corrupting influence of money in elections.  And they are one of the biggest proponents of the DISCLOSE Act- a blatant attack on free speech and free association rights in this country.  However, the information they list is a good source of seeing who is funding who | Read More »

    Paul Krugman is a Big Dumb Hypocrite

    By: davenj1 (Diary)  |  July 10th at 10:29 AM  | 

    Recently, Nobel Prize winning economist and New York Times columnist, appeared on The Colbert Show for an interview.  Listening to a comedian reduce Krugman to a blubbering fool was matched only by his hypocritical arguments when compared against many of his columns- recent and past.  First, just because you win the Nobel Prize does not make you an authoratative voice on a subject, especially in | Read More »

    It’s the Economy, Stupid…Again!!!

    By: davenj1 (Diary)  |  July 3rd at 08:31 PM  | 

         While President Obama has been using his weekly radio address to slam Republican “obstructionism,” he ignores the fact that his policies have been abject failures.  He sees “progress” in weak economic numbers and appears to be operating in some bizarre bubble of optimism.  During the recent G-20 summit in Toronto, Obama’s call for more spending fell on deaf ears.  To underscore the problem, these | Read More »