February 2013
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The Man Who Killed Osama bin Laden... Is Screwed -... →
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December 2012
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Watch(via Extended Star Trek trailer shows Captain Kirk hit by self-doubt… while Benedict Cumberbatch takes centre stage as new terrorist baddie (NOT Khan) | Mail Online)
The Monolithic Black Vote -- and My Republican Dad... →
My Democrat mom and Republican father did agree one thing: that government welfare made it “too easy” for the able-bodied “get on the county.” And my Dad always said, “If you try to get something for nothing, you end up with nothing for something.”
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My dad’s wisdom was simple. Don’t play the victim: “Hard work wins. Nobody owes you a...
Rich Lefties and Their Taxes | RealClearPolitics →
Massachusetts lowered its state income tax in 2001. Given the presumably large number of rich people who pine to pay more taxes, the state allowed tax filers to check a box and voluntarily pay the old, higher rate. In a liberal state of over 3 million tax filers, how many volunteered to pay the higher rate in 2004? A tiny fraction of 1 percent — 930 taxpayers.
Among those who refused to...
How's That Obamacare Waiver Workin' Out for Ya? |... →
“Red Lobster, Olive Garden (are) using Obama re-election as an excuse to deny employees benefits and living wages,” Jon Marquis fumed.
Twitter user Daphine Walker sent unhinged, ungrammatical messages to Red Lobster and Olive Garden in all-caps: “I WILL NEVER SPEND ANOTHER CENT ON THIS RACIST COMPANY WHO DOESNT GIVE A DAMN ABOUT THEIR EMPLOYEES.”
The CEO of Red Lobster...
Obamacore: The substitution of propaganda for... →
The Common Core, then, should be viewed, at least in part, as an attempt by the Obama administration to gain control of what is taught in public schools for the purpose of indoctrination. As Stanley Kurtz puts it, “Obama has managed to press direct support for his most cherished and controversial policy initiative onto your local school district.”
Kurtz warned about this move in Spreading The...
A Nation of Singles | The Weekly Standard →
Instead of trying to bribe single America into voting Republican, Republicans might do better by making the argument—to all Americans—that marriage is a pillar of both freedom and liberalism. That it is an arrangement which ought to be celebrated, nurtured, and defended because its health is integral to the success of our grand national experiment. And that Julia and her boyfriend ought to go...
Will President Obama push us over the cliff? -... →
Instead of turning the GOP willingness to deal on taxes into a win-win, the White House seemingly wants to humiliate them by insisting they cave entirely on increasing tax rates — or take responsibility for going over the cliff. Instead of sitting down and negotiating directly with leaders from the other side in private getaways, as presidents like Lyndon Johnson and Ronald Reagan did, the...
November 2012
38 posts
Strassel: This Unserious White House - WSJ.com →
I say, let’s go over the cliff—the people voted for it, didn’t they?
Talks that had been at a standstill may now crumble, thanks to the Geithner-Nabors proposal. The president is boxing in the Republicans—offering them a deal they cannot accept, a deal they can’t even be seen to be treating seriously. Mr. Boehner is legitimately interested in a bargain that will set the...
Noonan: Another Crisis—It's the Obama Way →
Here’s just one thing they should be discussing. Mr. Obama wants to raise tax rates on those earning $250,000 or more, as we know, on the assumption that they are “the rich.” But if you are a man with a wife and two kids making that salary and living in Westfield, N.J., in no way do you experience yourself to be rich, because you’re not. You pay federal payroll and income...
“The decisive contrast is that in state economy the consumer takes what the...”
– Arthur Seldon, The Virtues of Capitalism (via laliberty)
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“In Intellectuals, Paul Johnson’s evisceration of Marx’s empirical work and...”
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Barack Obama's Persuasion Army - we have to fight... →
For the Obama campaign, the future was irrelevant. What mattered was the “product” of the president’s first term. It’s clear why Barack Obama was willing to turn former Wall Street Democrats and contributors like J.P. Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon into furious critics of the president with his seemingly compulsive scapegoating of bankers, millionaires and “the...
Exclusive - Gutfeld: Conservatives Must Fight the... →
More Hispanic Voting Myths by Steven Malanga -... →
Also, there’s the stubborn fact that McCain and Romney did worse than Reagan and Bush among many other demographic groups, including traditionally strong Republican ones. Romney, for instance, won the vote among those who say they attend religious services regularly, but not by as wide a margin as Bush did. Once we have better data, the larger issue in the 2012 election may turn out to be a...
The Frogman’s Prophecies: America--weak, but... →
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Hear ye, hear ye, Great American Tribe: thou hast lost thy ways and hast forged thyself chains of iron. Hear the Revelations of the prophet Frogman, he who wandered through the barren wasteland of Europa under a wooden yoke and witnessed the terrible plight and dreadful blight that will now descend upon thee:
TO THE GLOATERS crowing over the comments sections of every conservative...
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Immigrants and the GOP - WSJ.com →
Review & Outlook: Saudi America →
Sometimes the revolution politicians seek isn’t the one they get. Consider the irony—and the opportunity—in Monday’s report that the U.S. is likely to surpass Saudi Arabia as the world’s largest oil producer as early as 2020.
In its annual world energy outlook, the Paris-based International Energy Agency (IEA) says the global energy map “is being redrawn by the...
It's Moneyball Elections from here on out--if we... →
Asked by Politico’s Mike Allen what the biggest lesson someone running 2016 should learn from the Obama campaign, David Axelrod said: “I would invest in people . . . who understand where the technology is going and what the potential will be by 2016 for communications, for targeting, for mining data, to make precision possible in terms of both persuasion and mobilization.”
Valerie Jarrett - beware of what you voted for...
“After we win this election, it’s our turn. Payback time. Everyone not with us is against us and they better be ready because we don’t forget. The ones who helped us will be rewarded, the ones who opposed us will get what they deserve. There is going to be hell to pay. Congress won’t be a problem for us this time. No election to worry about after this is over and we have two judges ready to...
Democrats Better Start Soul Searching « Commentary... →
Perhaps Democrats are confident purely because of their stance on social issues. But as a tactical matter (principle and ideology are a different question), is doesn’t make sense for Republicans to fret over the culture and identity wars that have transfixed the left. Gay marriage as a presidential issue is off the table. The November election showed the future of that question lives at the...
Obamacare Is Still Vulnerable - Michael F. Cannon... →
Demographics and the Culture War | Hoover... →
In short, the West is beginning to experience significant demographic changes, with substantial cultural consequences. Historically, the aged have made up only a small portion of society, and the rearing of children has been the chief concern. Now children will become a small minority, and society’s central problem will be caring for the elderly. Yet even this assumes that societies consisting...
A 3-year-old kid playing in his front yard peed... →
hipsterlibertarian:
My favorite part, though, is from the video, when the kid’s mother (or grandmother — not sure) says: “For $2,500, we all should be able to pee all over our front yard.”
The Grumpy Economist: Predictions →
Read it and prepare:
I did a short spot on NPR’s Marketplace this morning (also here). The announced topic was what I thought would happen to economic policy after the election. Jeff Horwich, the interviewer wanted to stitch together a story about everyone is going to get together and play nice now, which seemed like a fairly pointless line to pursue. What “I would do” is now...
Barack Obama’s new ethnic majority » Spectator... →
Operation Deep Blue « Michael B. Duff →
Out-left the left, IOW, left flanks all around:
Operation Deep Blue
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Start with the assumption that the Republican Party is dead. If yesterday’s results are not unique to Obama, if the demographics of the United States have permanently shifted to the left, no amount of tweaking, pandering, or “communicating” can save the GOP.
But if the Democratic Party can not be challenged...
¡Estimados Republicanos! - You "let's get only... →
And not only with Hispanics: Exit polls show that Asian-Americans went for the President over Mr. Romney by a whopping 73%-26%, an 11-point improvement over Mr. Obama’s margin in 2008. How many other non-white groups can the GOP lose and still consider itself a national party?
No doubt this editorial will provoke letters denouncing us for being soft on the issue. Now is an opportune time...
Born American, but in the Wrong Place | Ashbrook →
Now, with the revolution failing, came the final straw for my Dad. On one of his trips out to secure some bread, a hand grenade landed next to him but, miraculously, it did not go off. The spark that should have set off that grenade set off my father instead. He came home and announced to my mother that that was it. He said he was going to leave the country whether she would come or not. Mom said,...
The Long Game by Andrew Klavan - City Journal →
Life is short, said Hippocrates, but art is long. There is a practical corollary to that great truth: elections are won and lost in the politics of the moment, but it’s the culture that makes the nation.
In the aftermath of President Obama’s victory, conservative political thinkers will have to ask themselves some hard questions. How much of our defeat was due to strategy and how much to...
Juan Williams: Obama's Daunting Demographic... →
The percentage of white voters this year dropped to 72% from 74% in 2008. In 1992, white voters made up 87% of the electorate. In every presidential election since then, their share of the vote has dropped by between two and four percentage points. This year, 43% of white voters were over 45, 14% of them over age 65. Mitt Romney won the white vote 59% to 39%, the biggest share for a Republican...
Despite the Great Recession, Obama’s New Coalition... →
The middle class, we’re frequently told, decides elections. But the 2012 race has in many ways been a contest between two elites, with the plutocratic corporate class lining up behind Mitt Romney to try and reclaim its position on top of the pile from an ascendant new group—made up of the leaders of social and traditional media, the upper bureaucracy and the academy—that’s bet big on Barack...
July 2012
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