The Progressives Anti-Scientific Approach to Economics

By: lukematthews (Diary)  |  March 11th at 01:46 PM  | 

We are lectured ad nauseum about how conservatives are anti-science, moralizing crusaders who are unable to use pragmatism to solve social problems.  Then, when a socio-economic problem is addressed applying solid, accepted scientific principles, progressives lose their heads.  Jon Tevlin, an accomplice of the progressive/socialist wing of the Minnesota Democratic Party, is a shining example of this soft-headed, anti-scientific approach.  He posits human beings are | Read More »

SB 5 Dead in O-Hi-O

By: lukematthews (Diary)  |  November 12th at 01:30 PM  | 

This past week provided both challenges and successes electorally.  No ballot failure was quite as stinging as the passage of a referendum repealing the Republican union restriction law in Ohio.  Gov. John Kasich, and the Republicans controlling the legislature, passed a law this past spring that would have saved taxpayers billions of dollars.  It limited public union collective bargaining to wages and working conditions and | Read More »

$1.6 Trillion

By: lukematthews (Diary)  |  April 9th at 01:51 PM  | 

That’s how much our federal deficit for 2011 was before “the biggest annual spending cut in history,” as President Obama puts it, and just as big after.  That’s just how huge our spending problem is.  Even after a prolonged battle over cuts to the federal budget, the rounding error worth of cuts doesn’t even budge the number.  This is not only disgraceful but deeply, ridiculously | Read More »

Just How Broke Are We; Ask Amy

By: lukematthews (Diary)  |  March 20th at 12:29 PM  | 

This post was originally written for Looktruenorth.com, a Minnesota blog, to ask our ‘moderate’ Democratic senator Amy Klobuchar.  But, the facts and ideas presented speak to all Americans with Democratic Senators and Representatives who argue we just need to make the rich pay ‘their fair share.’  This disingenuous argument is faulty from its inception.  Hopefully my little number crunching exercise will show just how deeply | Read More »

The Wisconsin Recall Template

By: lukematthews (Diary)  |  March 13th at 09:50 AM  | 

Recall efforts against the Wisconsin Republican state senators is in full action mode.  The teachers and other public sector unions are engaging in a full on assault against the new Wisconsin law banning some collective bargaining categories.  One of the first problems they have is with the nature of a recall.  Recalls were designed to remove corrupt or wayward senators and representatives that broke the | Read More »

Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-MO; Love Pats to Me and Prosecution for Thee

By: lukematthews (Diary)  |  November 20th at 07:24 PM  | 

Isn’t it just delicious when a leftie can’t keep their hypocrisies straight and manage to expose their partisan duplicity?  Sen. Claire McCaskill is one such doublespeaking collectivist who just can’t reconcile her fear of America becoming a nation of torturers and America being indifferent to the rights of its citizens.  She just can’t keep the two things straight.  She basically wants Bush adminstration officials thrown | Read More »

Let the Hand Wringing Commence

By: lukematthews (Diary)  |  November 14th at 12:51 PM  | 

I’ve come to enjoy seeing in my Sunday paper what spurious argument Nick Coleman will craft to bash the body politic and uplift his precious Democrats.  Today’s little ditty, entitled “Business buys itself a new government,” November 14, 2010 StarTribune, was composed to identify the culprit in this last election.  Coleman is rather monotone in his singing style because he cannot grasp multiple reasons for | Read More »

My Humble Take on the Minnesota Miracle

By: lukematthews (Diary)  |  November 6th at 10:58 AM  | 

First I want to thank all the fantastic people here at Looktruenorth and Redstate for all the great posts and news that have been pouring in this past election season.  I am truly humbled and encouraged by the brilliance and insight that consistently is presented by everyday Americans who only want our country and citizens to succeed and live free.  Further, I’d like to thank | Read More »

Wizard of Oz

By: lukematthews (Diary)  |  October 2nd at 10:37 AM  | 

My goodness, how much difference does a year make.  Last year, we were being told that Republicans would have a lot of ‘splaining to do in regards to their opposition to health care deform.  Democrats, that were listening to voters, were told the union thugs would make sure they rued the day they opposed their signature issue.  Everyone was assuring the Democratic Machine that health | Read More »

Giving Substance to the Lies

By: lukematthews (Diary)  |  September 8th at 07:46 PM  | 

There is one thing Democrats and collectivists are especially good at, that’s lying.  If they can’t win on substance, they simply revise history to make their complicity and nonsense programs someone else’s fault.  That is what  House and Senate Democrats are doing now.  They are saying they’re fiscal conservatives.  Such a thing is patently absurd.  Anyone whose paid any attention in the last couple of | Read More »