The Fiscal Cliff, the Sequester, and the Continuing Resolutions now are behind us. The next Episode in the Continuing Saga is looming: the Debt Ceiling. President Obama has put down his table ante, as described by the Washington Post headline, “Obama budget would cut entitlements in exchange for tax increases.” In plain English Team Obama is offering the Republicans a […]
In a gross abuse of dissembling reality, the Associated Press announced today that it has dropped the term “illegal immigrant” used to describe immigrants who have entered the country, um, illegally. The AP defends the linguist twist as being part of the journalistic junta’s efforts to scrub labels from its Stylebook and better align with […]
Recently I was asked to help with an effort just north of Charlotte to stop yet another ludicrous project by transportation departments. Along the way, as I’ve researched this project, into my inbox has come the daily influx of travesties in all sectors of government meddling. There’s the marriage issue, the monetary policy issue, the latest healthcare […]
The breakout headliner issue in 1978 was “Tax Revolt.” A Time Magazine cover showed Howard Jarvis shaking his fist under that headline. Proposition 13 time. Then? The Tax Revolt went, as we would now say, viral. Citizen discontent — and political activism — against high tax rates turned into a national, and then international, phenomenon. The revolt […]
In case you haven’t heard the small island nation of Cyprus has the world’s attention this week. In a word, it’s a mess. A big, historic mess. Why historic? Well, let’s not get ahead of ourselves. First, we need to understand what’s happening, why it’s happening, and what could happen; and then take some guesses […]
Marijuana. Bankers’ money. Guns. WHO do these three things have in common? Well, I can think of one person: The President. Obama has admitted he smoked marijuana habitually (“regularly” is the word he uses) as a teen, he’s accepted millions in campaign donations from the financial services industry, and, while being protected 24/7 by men […]
“This year, for the first time in the history of the world, more people will die from too much food than from too little food. More people will die from the effects of obesity than from starvation, and we’ve got to do something about this.” – NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg, defending his ban on sugary […]
The Denver Post, on February 15th, ran an Associated Press article entitled Homeland Security aims to buy 1.6b rounds of ammo, to far too little notice. It confirmed that the Department of Homeland Security has issued an open purchase order for 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition. As elsewhere reported, some of this purchase order is for rounds forbidden […]
While the NC legislature is moving towards revising our current convoluted tax code, we can only hope the US Congress would do the same thing. Taxes are supposed to be about one thing: raising money from the people to fund a government for the people. We have gone far beyond that. The contorted code we […]
The Obama Administration, via congressional testimony by the nation’s top cop, publicly made it clear this week to the US Senate, the American people, and our partners and allies around the world that they believe the Rule of Law no longer applies in the United States of America. In my uneducated and oft ill-informed opinion, […]
