Living with progressive values
Like they’re doing in New York City: At her January inauguration, New York city council speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito told her colleagues, “Now is the time to embrace our progressive moment and put our...
View ArticleThe bureaucratic state
While the enemies of freedom certainly are made up of politicians who would limit or take away your freedom, probably the most insidious of those enemies is the bureaucrat. As we’ve seen for decades,...
View Article“Economic patriotism” equals “stay here and pay punitive taxes to cover our...
“Economic patriotism” is the new meme that Democrats are throwing around to demonize companies that try to avoid taxes here in the US, i.e. you’re not a patriotic company if you attempt to avoid taxes...
View ArticleTales from the Nanny State
The first comes from our “hoist on their own petard” department: A study from three sociologists based out of North Carolina State University charges that First Lady Michelle Obama’s campaign topromote...
View ArticleTo the Shepard Smiths of the world, STFU!
Smith has essentially jumped the shark by lecturing the audience to remain calm and not to believe most of the media hype surrounding the Ebola scare. And Smith should know about media hype being one...
View ArticleTime to put government back inside the box
By that I mean, make it a servant of the public again. I don’t know how this “serves the public”: FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -Local 10 first brought you the story of the 90-year-old man who was arrested for...
View ArticleElitism driving “free” college proposal by Obama?
The short answer is “yes”. Megan McArdle makes the point : Higher education is becoming the ginseng of the policy world: a sort of all-purpose snake oil for solving any problem you’d care to name, as...
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Even more this and that
Not sure how you stick with one topic a day when so much is going on, thus the appeal of commenting on lots of topics. For instance, we find out that President Obama is the reason gas prices are down …...
View ArticleCheck The Sky For Flying Pigs
Because this actually happened: In response to Uber ride-sharing drivers now working in the city, the [Portsmouth, NH] Taxi Commission on Wednesday recommended the elimination of taxi medallions,...
View ArticleWhen your government lies to you
Jim Clifton, Chairman and CEO of Gallup lays out one of the biggest lies our government is party to each month. The unemployment rate. Right now the lie claims that only 5.6% of those who want to work...
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