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RNC, Mitt, won’t know what hit them
During my trip around the Rightosphere this morning, 2 things are abundantly clear: 1) Mitt and the RNC don’t see what’s about to hit them from President Obama and 2) Mitt and the RNC don’t see the seething anger building up against them from the activist base. Two posts highlight that second point brilliantly. Let’s start with Erick Erickson’s post first: The fix is in for Romney, which just means when he is crushed by Barack Obama a lot of Republicans will have a lot of explaining to do. Newt may not be able to win. But Romney sure as hell can’t beat Obama either if Newt can’t win. The problem remains Gingrich supporters intrinsically know this to be so and are happy to die fighting. Romney’s supporters are still deluding … Read entire article »
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The New Commission, Toward a Moral Society All Over Again
In Matthew 28, Christ told his disciples to go and teach the Word to all the nations. (Mt 28:16-10). That was Christ’s commission, and much has been written about it the past … Read more »
Does Newt’s support for Bush Rx Drug bill win Florida but lose conservatives?
Mitt Romney’s attack on Gingrich for alleged lobbying prompts full-throated defense of Bush Medicare reform Tea partier criticism of President George W. Bush and the early 2000s’ Republican Congress as oxymoronic “big government” … Read more »
Random Thoughts About the 2012 Nomination Process
There have been many false narratives promoted throughout this primary season by the establishment elites, and also by the pundits and national media. The reason for these false narratives have varied. The … Read more »
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National Popular Vote Is Backed By George Soros And Assorted Other Communists
If you think as a conservative that a National Popular Vote is the way forward for conservatism to rally or libertarianism to win the day, think again. Just like every other attempt … Read more »
Boost Economic Growth by Slashing the Size of Government
It doesn’t get much attention, but one of the most interesting economic experiments in American history occurred right after World War II. Despite warnings of Armageddon from Keynesian economists, government spending was … Read more »
Romney: A Total Failure on Double Taxation
Last night’s GOP debate did nothing to change my sour opinion of Mitt Romney. During a discussion about tax reform, he attacked Newt Gingrich for the supposed crime of not wanting to double … Read more »
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What’s the Buffett Rule on Spending and Investing?
President Obama, always on the campaign trail, is now on the road trying to explain why his class warfare strategy is not class warfare. In his State of the Union address, he once again invoked the “Buffett Rule”, which is little more than a fig leaf to allow Obama to raise taxes. But what about some other “Buffett Rules”? Spending What is the Buffett Rule on spending? Does Warren Buffett agree with President Obama that we should spend 150% of what we take in? Did Warren Buffett become one of the richest men on the planet by spending 150% of what he takes in and borrowing the shortfall? I think Buffett’s counsel would be to live within … Read entire article »
Mark Levin exposes Mitt Romney’s vile campaign tactics
I didn’t attempt to keep my allegiance to Newt Gingrich’s presidential campaign a secret. I’ve disagreed a little, quietly, with Speaker Gingrich at times. I haven’t sat idly by while Mitt Romney attacked Newt with bald-faced lies. Apparently, I’m not alone. When Mark Levin saw Mitt’s attacks that Newt wasn’t a true Reaganite conservative, Levin used his radio show to interview Jeffrey Lords, a fellow Reagan administration employee. Here’s that interview: To say that these gentlemen disagreed with Mitt is understatement. It’s fair to say that they questioned Mitt’s fidelity to conservative principles, both in the 1990′s and today. Levin used his opening monologue to go after Mitt, Jennifer Rubin and Little Annie Coulter. Here’s that audio: Mr. … Read entire article »
Enron1, ooops, Ener1 Bankrupt Despite $118 Million in Fed Stimulus
It is another huge green fail for the Obama administration. The eletric car battery maker Ener1 filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy one year to the day after Vice President Biden visited the Indiana plant touting its prospects. Ener1 received $118 million in federal stimulus money from the Energy Department. With the disaster that is the Chevy volt and now Ener1, it is obvious that Obama’s goal of 1 million electric cars on the road by 2015 is nothing but an expensive fairy tale. (CNSNews.com) – Ener1–a company that manufactures batteries for electric cars, and that received $118.5 million in federal stimulus money, and that Vice President Joe Biden visited last year the day after President Obama’s … Read entire article »
Fed Feeds Distortion
By Thomas Brewton Bernanke’s press conference announcement again booted the stock and bond markets, but did nothing to boost employment. At his January 25, 2012, press conference, Federal Reserve Bank chairman Ben Bernanke stated that he expects the Fed to continue imposing near-zero interest rates well into 2014 on short-term Treasury securities. In response, the stock market surged, despite expectations of generally lower corporate earnings and reduced consumer spending. Loose credit and low interest rates usually facilitate stock market speculation. However gratifying this may to individual investors and pension fund managers, it does little if anything to restore production of goods and services or to raise employment. It also continues to penalize increased savings, which alone provides a … Read entire article »
If Chris Christie and Ann Coulter are Mitt’s best, he’s in trouble
If Chris Christie and Christie stalker Ann Coulter are his best high-profile advocates, his campaign is in serious trouble. Mark Levin takes Gov. Christie to the proverbial woodshed, lawyer vs. lawyer, on the Romney campaign’s attacks against Newt’s ‘ethics violations’ on yesterday’s radio program: During his 7+ minute monologue, Mark Levin eviscerates Chris Christie, mostly on Christie’s using the left’s tactics on Newt. Levin also questions whether Gov. Christie is a real conservative, asking what Christie’s “top 10 conservative achievements are.” Levin said that taking on the teachers unions was a conservative achievement before asking “What are the other 9″? Ann Coulter has been flighty for a decade or more. She isn’t stupid but she’s more enamored … Read entire article »
Alinsky/Obama vs. Gingrich: what this campaign is really about
If anything is certain, it’s that President Obama is a devout believer…in uberradical Saul Alinsky. This video shows Alan Colmes sitting like a potted plant and Monica Crowley explaining to Bill O’Reilly President Obama’s affinity for Alinsky: Thanks to Jim Hoft, the Gateway Pundit, we have this picture of then-community organizer Barack Obama teaching Alinsky 101 to college students: GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has framed the debate that this election is about Alinsky vs. the Founding Fathers. Here’s part of Newt’s victory speech: Let me just say that I believe the debate we’re going to have with President Obama over the next eight or nine months is the outlining of the two Americas: Those two choices, I believe, … Read entire article »
Should the Fiscal Pyromaniacs at the IMF Get another $500 Billion so They Can Advocate Keynesian Spending and Class-Warfare Tax Hikes?
Perhaps the title of this post is a bit unfair since the International Monetary Fund is good on some issues, such as reducing subsidies. And some of the economists at the IMF even produce good research. But I can’t help but get agitated that this behemoth global bureaucracy wants more money when it has a dismal track record of promoting, enabling, and subsidizing bigger government. Here’s a brief blurb from the Wall Street Journal, which shares my skepticism. The IMF’s Christine Lagarde delivered a speech in Berlin Monday warning that, without dramatic action, the world risked another Great Depression. …”We estimate a global potential financing need of $1 trillion,” she said. “To play its part, the IMF would … Read entire article »
The Cato Institute Responds to President Obama’s State-of-the-Union Address
I’ve already bragged that the Cato Institute is America’s best think tank, highlighting the fact that we took the lead in battling against Obama’s faux stimulus at a time when many were dispirited and reluctant to fight big government. I’m biased, of course, so I’ll understand if you discount what I say. But I hope you’ll agree that my colleagues have put together an excellent video response to the President’s state-of-the-union speech. As part of my contribution to the video, beginning around 6:35, I debunk the President’s class-warfare tax agenda by citing IRS data from the 1980s to explain that higher tax rates don’t necessarily mean higher tax revenue. After a night’s sleep, here are a few additional … Read entire article »
On those, ummm, “ethics violations” Romney and Pelosi like to throw at Gingrich? Yeah…
First comes Byron York, who covered the ethics mess during the nineties for American Spectator. The case centered around a class Gingrich taught in Georgia called “Renewing American Civilization”; [H]is critics contended that it had little to do with learning and was in fact a political exercise in which Gingrich abused a tax-exempt foundation to spread his own partisan message. In other words, just like every leftist professor at college today, right? Shilling for the left and the Democrat Party? Well, Gingrich was exonerated; In the end, in 1999, the IRS released a densely written, highly detailed 74-page report. The course was, in fact, educational, the IRS said. “The overwhelming number of positions advocated in the course were very broad … Read entire article »
Romney: A Total Failure on Double Taxation
Last night’s GOP debate did nothing to change my sour opinion of Mitt Romney. During a discussion about tax reform, he attacked Newt Gingrich for the supposed crime of not wanting to double tax capital gains. Here’s how Politico reported the exchange. Newt Gingrich joked about Romney’s 15 percent tax rate, saying: “I’m prepared to describe my flat tax as the Mitt Romney flat tax.” Romney jumped in to ask: Do you tax capital gains at 15 percent or zero percent? Gingrich’s answer: Zero. “Under that plan, I’d have paid no taxes in the last two years,” Romney said, alluding to the fact that all his income is from investments. Romney’s remarks are amazingly misguided. Getting rid of … Read entire article »
Obama Administration “Rigging” US Census By Counting Illegal Aliens
The Barack Obama administration is quietly in the process of rigging use of the US Census of 2010, which deliberately counted millions of illegal aliens, for the purpose of restructuring the apportionment of the US House of Representatives. Accordingly, as candidates for Governor and Lieutenant Governor of one of the negatively affected states (Montana), Mr. Bob Fanning and I have joined with several others in becoming amici curiae in a pending federal lawsuit brought by the State of Louisiana against the US Secretary of Commerce, et al., which was filed January, 13, 2012 in the United States Supreme Court. What has happened is, the US Census Bureau erroneously claims that it “‘is required by the U.S. … Read entire article »
Solyndra caught on tape dumping its own parts.
Adding insult to injury Solyndra employees were caught on tape by a CBS news crew in Fremont California deliberately destroying parts. In this writer’s eyes every single one of these people should be prosecuted for theft, vandalism and destruction of public property. Solyndra paid at least $2 million for the specialized glass. A CBS 5 crew found one piece lying in the parking lot. Solyndra still owes the German company that made the tubes close to another $8 million. Solyndra did not return calls to the station requesting comment, but the company charged with selling off its assets, Heritage Global Partners, told the news station they couldn’t find a buyer so the tubes are going to … Read entire article »
Deconstructing Jonathan Alter’s “Five Myths about Barack Obama” in the Washington Post
The Washington Post is a left-wing newspaper, so I’m never surprised to find examples of biased reporting. Last month, for instance, I made fun of the Post for asserting that Germany was “fiscally conservative.” I also mocked the Post last March, when a reporter hysterically claimed that a proposal to trim $6 billion from a $3,600 billion budget would “slash” government. Today, I want to analyze a column by Jonathan Alter. Entitled “Five Myths about Barack Obama,” it’s in the opinion section, where people are supposed to present a point of view. So I’m not going to complain about bias, but I am going to disagree about some of his judgments. Here are the five supposed myths, along with my … Read entire article »
Davos Elites Decide Capitalism Is Outdated
Of course what has happened in America and around the world for decades hasn’t been capitalism but crony capitalism. Every government around the world decided year in and year out what companies to reward, either through tax breaks, or through outright taxpayer money going to those companies. In America, the beneficiaries have been massive, with General Electric, General Motors, all of the ethanol producers, etc. I can only guess that these elites are deciding to put the nail in actual capitalism once and for all and usher in the era of socialism, well in your face socialism. What the United States federal government has been practicing for decades is socialism and we allowed them to … Read entire article »
Europe’s Fiscal Crisis Is Caused by too Much Government, and Deficits and Debt Are Merely Symptoms of that Problem
I don’t expect a good outcome to the European fiscal crisis, largely because nobody seems to understand that the real problem is excessive government spending. The economic illiterates in the press sometimes say the fight in Europe is between austerity and Keynesianism, but that’s not accurate. It’s really a battle between those who think big government should be financed by taxes and those who think big government should be funded by taxes and debt. And it doesn’t help that the supposedly conservative governments in places such as Spain, Germany, France, and the United Kingdom are run by statists. The good news is that some people understand the real problem. The bad news is that they generally don’t live … Read entire article »
Congress Passes the Laws, the Prez Administrates
I love Ron Paul as a Congressman. We need more people like him in the legislature. That said, I am hoping Newt Gingrich wins the nomination for president. Newt is a lover of big ideas. This deeply flawed candidate has a history of flitting from big idea to big idea, but he does have a history of getting big ideas in place. Mr. Gingrich might best be described as a random policy generator. He jumps from idea to idea and one comes out as policy. If Mr. Gingrich won the presidency, I suspect that we would enter a period in which people started discussing big ideas with hopes of getting their ideas churned through the random policy generator. The biggest of … Read entire article »
The GOP Establishment’s Fearmongering
Now that Mitt’s inevitability mirage has been burst, the DC GOP establishment is engaged in a panicked, coordinated fearmongering attack. Thomas DeFrank’s op-ed is the poster child for that fearmongering: WASHINGTON — South Carolina’s rebellious Republicans rewarded an improbable, against-the-grain victor — but he wasn’t even on the ballot. Mitt Romney’s disastrous tax meltdown, coupled with Newt Gingrich’s adroit bellicosity, media-baiting and Washington-bashing, have campaign strategists smiling this weekend in the Chicago headquarters of the Democratic nominee. “The winner in South Carolina was Barack Obama,” a prominent Republican strategist glumly volunteered. “This plays perfectly into his hands. We’ve prolonged the process, and that’s good news for the President.” The GOP idiots in DC started parroting that line last night. … Read entire article »
National Popular Vote Is Backed By George Soros And Assorted Other Communists
If you think as a conservative that a National Popular Vote is the way forward for conservatism to rally or libertarianism to win the day, think again. Just like every other attempt by the left to have third party candidates like Americans Elect, the National Popular Vote group is well funded and funded by Democrats. We have seen in elections around the Country in 2008 and 2010 so called third party candidates who were there to appeal to the so called “middle” and yet each and every time they were Democrats, lefties, progressives. What they attempt to do is to confuse the voter and to ensure the win of the Democrat. It is important that … Read entire article »
Has the Constitution become a Farce?
“The Preamble to the Constitution has the following injunction …to ensure domestic tranquility … This is the purpose of this bill,” Rep. Dennis Kucinich’s compliance statement per House Rule XII on the constitutionality of his bill to create a Department of Peace. A return to constitutionality was supposed to be a hallmark of the 2010 election. Part of the GOP’s Pledge to America read, “We will require each bill moving through Congress to include a clause citing the specific constitutional authority upon which the bill is justified.” Republicans took over the House with considerable help from the Tea Party and other constitutional conservatives. How has Congress fared in delivering on its promise to comply with the … Read entire article »