About 4.5 seconds after I posted Pray Tell, I found a far more eloquent, better researched and more qualified piece which expresses my sentiments exactly. So I’ll defer to Gene Healy via The Washington Examiner: It’s hard to feel sorry for the “Yes We Can” candidate, who got the job by stoking the juvenile expectation […]
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Jake Tapper and Huma Khan via ABC: The White House is seemingly making an increased show of pressuring BP, but President Obama is facing political heat from within his own party for what some say has been a lackluster response to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Pray tell, state worshipers, what the […]
Though I doubt that the residents of hell are seeing ice crystals form, it’s fair odds that they felt a chilly breeze when the The New York Times lamented that a Federal Court recently upheld unprecedented amounts of executive power. An anonymous editorialist: One of the most vital jobs of the federal courts is to […]
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Daniel J. Mitchell via The Cato Institute: Contrary to her direct quote, Brazil does not have the “highest tax-to-GDP rate in the Western Hemisphere.” It may have the highest tax burden in South America. And it may even have the highest tax burden in all of Latin America, but its overall tax burden of about […]
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Charles M. Blow via The New York Times: Such has been the narrative of his presidency: being treated like the janitor in chief — mopping up messes made by others and being chastised for leaving streaks. It couldn’t be that much of his chastisement is actually earned. I mean it isn’t as if he shoved […]
According to Secretary of State Billary Clinton, we should strive to be more like Brazil in our taxation by heavily taxing those with, in order to support those without. Brazil has the highest tax-to-GDP rate in the Western Hemisphere and guess what — they’re growing like crazy,” Clinton said. “And the rich are getting richer, but […]
House Minority Leader John A. Boehner via The Washington Post: Giving states another $23 billion in federal education money simply throws more money into taxpayer-funded bailouts when we should be discussing why we aren’t seeing the results we need from the billions in federal dollars that are already being spent. These same teachers and school […]
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Libertarian Party Vice Chairman Joshua Koch in an interview with The Washington Post: The reason why we would even consider running somebody in this race is because we’re not going to let Rand determine what a Libertarian stands for . . . I’m here to say Rand does not have the Libertarian ideology. Though Paul […]
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Julian Sanchez via Newsweek: we now take for granted that the interstate-commerce power constitutes a blank check, not just when Congress seeks to rectify gross historical iniquity, but for such purposes as overriding state decisions to permit local cultivation of medical marijuana. I wonder how quickly the classic Libertard argument that states rights is a […]
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Well, yes I could have if I actually tried. The style is truncated and choppy (too many one sentence paragraphs which are a bit annoying), but his message is clearly stated. Robert A. Leavy via Politico: So Paul stands foursquare for civil rights but acknowledges the Civil Rights Act’s possible disconnect from the Constitution. His […]
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