A recent post reminded me there are innumerable individuals that constantly advocate higher taxes as inevitable and necessary. Many are very wealthy, and a few notables taking this position are Warren Buffett, and just about every Democrat politician. Usually the left treats public advocacy of higher taxes as the ne plus ultra evidence of “leadership”. However, they are missing a golden opportunity to provide both | Read More »
It will be sometime before the demands of our life make the Tucson murders fade into the background of life, to join Columbine, Jonestown, September 11 and a myriad of other senseless slaughters as distant memories in the endless parade of such travesties. I know from the experience of losing a young and presumably healthy sibling suddenly (although not to any “man-caused” disaster, | Read More »
Insurance, Bought and Paid For.. Repeat after me, insurance, bought and paid for. Mechanical efficiency allowing the “premium” to be just three cents on the dollar. http://www.archive.org/details/YourSoci1940 Notice the giant safe shortly after 5:00, and the phrase “in trust”. But the promises of Obamacare are true, right?
Bank Examiners and Christmas have but one connection-in Frank Capra’s “It’s a Wonderful Life”. The newer breed clearly needs any life. http://www.koco.com/r/26162860/detail.html http://www.koco.com/news/26174152/detail.html This doesn’t exactly comport with the normal criticisms of the Federal Reserve, but it might be more compelling. Since the lawyers at the Fed have apparently realized the First Amendment trumps the curiously malfeasant interpretations of Fed regulations made by a petty | Read More »
Let’s work on the other things that make them irate. Abortion, Pornography….. When we really get good, we can ban Christmas, Bacon and Wine.
The following quote is from Boston Globe Columnist Jeff Jacoby: “Our nation has been enriched – not “overrun” – because of birthright citizenship. The 19th-century nativists who feared otherwise were wrong. Their intellectual heirs today are, too.” If economists Carmen M. Reinhart and Kenneth S. Rogoff ever decide to write a sequel to “This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly”, perhaps they should | Read More »
<!–[if !mso]> <! st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } –> hy is Barack Obama failing at everything except passing legislation designed top enhance federal power-and that in large part because of substantial legislative majorities? Is it really just the effects of his inexperience or is it a something else? Beyond the fact that appointing a commission is a proxy for proper action for a politicians who campaigned on omnicompetence | Read More »
Apparently, Mitch McConnell aspires to be the new Bob Michel-the man who sheepishly conceded the idea of permanent minority for his party, election after election, while maintaining his hold on the title “leader”. Clearly, McConnell doesn’t understand job one for the Senate Minority Leader is becoming Senate Majority leader. According to Rollcall.com, http://www.rollcall.com/issues/55_147/news/47308-1.html?mostread=1 McConnell won’t campaign against Harry Reid. The article indicates the two have | Read More »
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