According to an editor’s note at Harper’s Daily, Obama’s biggest problem is that he doesn’t believe in the voodoo economics of the minimum wage (supply and demand anyone?) and that he isn’t in to mercantilism enough, rather instead, he’s too much in to that whole free trade thing where consumers are able to get the […]

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How is the Stop and Frisk program where cops can stop and search any individual they choose, at any time they choose, for any reason they choose Constitutional? Officer Adhyl Polanco, who was initially responsible for calling attention to the quotas via a series of secret recordings made back in 2009, told the court he’d […]

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Hipsters are not the economic saviours of America. Color me surprised. Among the most pervasive, and arguably pernicious, notions of the past decade has been that the “creative class” of the skilled, educated and hip would remake and revive American cities. The idea, packaged and peddled by consultant Richard Florida, had been that unlike spending […]

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The key to maximizing tax revenue is to broaden the base so that more people pay lower rate taxes, not raising rates and having fewer and fewer people pay taxes. This is not new.

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School systems teaching that racism is a phenomenon of white people, and white people alone. From a Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (read: indoctrination): (R)acism is caused by white people, by our attitudes, behaviors, practices, and institutions … How do you justify it for yourself? Now I’m not one of those who would try to […]

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Ugh. The only just punishment would be for him to go to jail and face what others have faced because of politicians like him.

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This, folks, is what is known to moral human beings as hypocrisy. Glenn Greenwald: Literally moments after he was inaugurated, the White House declared that “President Obama has committed to making his administration the most open and transparent in history”. Obama continues even now to parade around as a historically unprecedented champion of openness. In […]

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Rand Paul is right. In theory at least. The Washington Examiner: Speaking yesterday at a National Review breakfast, Sen. Rand Paul R-Ky. explained what he thought about the Tea Party movement vs. the Occupy Wall Street movement, as Jon Ward reports in the Huffington Post. “The Tea Party, I always say, is more like the […]

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What happened to “if you make less than $250k your taxes will not go up?” TaxProf: The Joint Committee on Taxation recently released a 96 page report on the tax provisions associated with Affordable Care Act. The report describes the 21 tax increases included in Obamacare, totaling $1.058 trillion – a steep increase from initial […]

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Hacks gonna hack. In my talks to conservative bloggers and activists who want to understand and influence the media, I downplay the “liberal bias” meme. Sure, most reporters I’ve encountered in my years working for newspapers have a liberal worldview that influences their story selection and coverage. But most are reasonably fair and professional, so […]

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