Hmmm … Is Erika Harold (R-IL13-cand) a Conservative?

By: Loren Heal (Diary)  |  May 18th at 05:07 PM  | 

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The Spending Code

By: Loren Heal (Diary)  |  April 14th at 03:37 PM  | 

Barack Obama yesterday introduced us to the notion that the failure to collect taxes is actually government spending.  Tax cuts (or deferred increases) are just an alternate way for the government to spend money, because without the cuts it would otherwise get the added revenue. Actually the idea is as old as Caesar, but it was jarring to hear it so seamlessly encoded into the | Read More »

So Much Stupid in a Single Paragraph

By: Loren Heal (Diary)  |  February 15th at 08:09 AM  | 

Looking for the President’s FY2012 budget, I noticed right away the inanity dripping from the first paragraph on the White House propaganda page for it: Having emerged from the worst recession in generations, the President has put forward a plan to rebuild our economy and win the future by out-innovating, out-educating, and out-building our global competitors and creating the jobs and industries of tomorrow. But | Read More »

Illinois Governor Quinn, Speaker Madigan Backroom Deal Caught on Video

By: Loren Heal (Diary)  |  January 11th at 01:17 PM  | 

When Chicago voters returned Pat Quinn to his job as Governor of Chicago, they knew he wanted to increase their income taxes from 3% to 4%. That’s not much for most of his supporters, who accept a government check of one sort or another. But shortly after winning reelection, he let it be known that a 33% increase was not enough, if his public sector | Read More »

Quinn A-Tax Illinois

By: Loren Heal (Diary)  |  January 9th at 12:02 AM  | 

Democrats kept their grip on power in the Illinois Legislature and won the governorship by the slimmest of margins, and they are going to make voters pay for it. Emboldened by his reelection, Governor Quinn and legislative allies are seizing on the lame duck session to sneak through a radical tax and spending plan the voters did not expect and would not have accepted.

Not Even Wrong

By: Loren Heal (Diary)  |  November 21st at 09:43 AM  | 

Via a sympathetic Reuters reporter, President Barack Obama wants us to believe he is worried about the budget deficit: “It is important though to recognize if we keep on adding to the debt, even in the midst of this recovery, that at some point, people could lose confidence in the U.S. economy in a way that could actually lead to a double-dip recession,” he said. | Read More »