Category Archives: socialism
What to do about the Norks
Kim Jong Un, the apparently unstable heir to the throne in North Korea, has been babbling quite a bit lately. His babblings, in a sane society, would result in him being institutionalized for his own good. Sadly, this crazy is the head of a rogue, terrorist state. A state that may soon possess working nuclear […]
Thank you, Big Government!
For allowing businesses to succeed. You see, according to Barack Obama, all success is communal. We can’t succeed merely by our grit, determination, and native intelligence. Despite what we all might have learned when we first went out on our own. Well, Obama, in a speech a few days ago, said that we simply couldn’t […]
Modest prediction
Arguments before the Supreme Court on ObamaCare ended today, with pundits pondering the tea leaves. Or chicken entrails, if that suits you… If the individual mandate is found unconstitutional (admittedly, big “if”), I predict that the Court will return the health care bill to Congress to fix what remains without that mandate*. They would likely […]
Cleveland: Yay, we’re only second worst
Jarrett Skorup is featured in today’s Wall Street Journal Notable & Quotable: Detroit: The Triumph of Progressive Public Policy. The original article is at CAPCON, published by the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. Imagine a city where all the major economic planks of the statist or “progressive” platform have been enacted: A “living wage” ordinance, […]
Taxing, isn’t it
To have to listen to the TOTUS drone on about how unfair it all is. “It” being, among other whines, the notion that the rich don’t pay their “fair” share in federal taxes. The graphic above tells a somewhat different story. Seems that the upper brackets pay a lot more in taxes, both in absolute […]
