Earth to Liberals: Raising Taxes Won't Work
CNN has published an op-ed by Michael Wolraich entitled “Republicans’ Medicare blunder.” Wolraich doesn’t really make any new points. It’s just another juvenile analysis of the political risks...
View ArticleA Nation in Debt Denial
A lot has been written over the past week about Harold Camping and his judgement day predictions. Camping has been the object of scorn and comedy, and rightly so. It’s fun to poke fun at people who...
View ArticleEntitlments are the Path to Ruin
The U.S. has spent trillions on the War on Poverty since 1964 and poverty still remains. Socialized health care has been a progressive dream for over 70 years in the United States after FDR...
View ArticleProgressives: Opinions Based on Fake Facts
Today it's okay to bomb Libya, but a few years ago it wasn't cool to be at war. Earlier this week I wrote an open letter to Kathryn Scaglione after stumbling unto her deranged tweets on Twitter....
View ArticleGovernor Rick Perry's RLC 2011 Speech
A few days ago I wrote that conservatives should quit trying to appease liberals. It cowardice not to stand up for you believe. Liberal certainly don’t suffer from it (except when they call themselves...
View ArticleAmerica: Morally and Financially Bankrupt
[blackbirdpie url="http://twitter.com/#!/lhommeblank/status/115333484456853504"] I have never understood Christianphobia in the United States. Why is there this fear that Christians are trying to...
View ArticleHipster Dufus Watch: Occupy Wall Street
I haven’t written much about Occupy Wall Street because it’s a non-movement that’s already over-covered. Liberal mainstream journalism is well on its way to not covering all the crazy hipster doofuses...
View ArticleThe Myth of Income Inequality
If we only taxed the rich... A constant liberal talking point is that the top one percent of American have exploited the rest of the country to acquire their wealth. It’s simply not true. These claims...
View ArticleThe ObamaCare Decision
Much has been written about tomorrow’s historic United States Supreme Court decision on the constitutionality of ObamaCare. The biggest surprise is the left’s attitude toward the court. If they don’t...
View ArticleThe Myth of the Southern Strategy
The sinister “Southern Strategy” is liberal dogma. I like to tell liberals all the time it’s a fantasy. They flip out! “But the South votes for the GOP! It must be racism!” It’s all so shallow. Why...
View ArticleLiberals: Stuck on Stupid, Detroit Edition
War-torn third-world country? No, Detroit, and likely the rest of America’s cities in the future if we keep riding the Obama Banana Republic Expressway. If Detroit was a person, it would have an...
View ArticleCalvin Coolidge: The Last American Idealist
Amity Shlaes’ new book Coolidge is essential reading for those who want to understand how the Progressive movement moved the nation toward the tax-and-spend policies that are commonplace today....
View ArticleIt’s High Time to Curtail Taxation
My least favorite reason for legalizing marijuana is the taxation argument, which was one of the primary arguments used by proponents of the ballot initiative that legalized marijuana in Colorado*....
View ArticleClassic Affirmative Action Debate
I stumbled on this video of an old episode of Firing Line featuring a fantastic debate about Affirmative Action. William F. Buckley served more as a moderator between economists Thomas Sowell and...
View ArticleEconomic Lessons Never Learned
So is average intelligence about economics. My biggest pet peeve in politics used to be anthropogenic global warming (AKA Climate Change, AKA, Global Warmonger), but after 15 years of unchanged...
View ArticleMisplaced Faith in Bureaucracy
Why do people have blind faith in bureaucracy? Large bureaucracies are never efficient and as the state gets bigger the abuses get worse. That doesn’t stop progressives from giving up on their faith...
View ArticleThe Family Breakdown
Part of the my difficulty in taking politics seriously anymore is that people do not want to engage in real debate. The number one economic issue in the United States is the rise of single-parent...
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