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It’s a time-honored tradition among the proponents of big government to justify any expansion of government power, or any expansion of government spending, with an “it’s for the children” argument. Because where our children are concerned we just can’t say no, right?
Well I’m about to use an “it’s for the [...]
I had to chuckle a bit when I read this in the Bismarck Tribune:
When the State Employee Compensation Committee recommended recently that brackets or ranges for pay grades be raised by 8.1 percent and state employees get 4 percent raises in each year of the next biennium, [...]
The government response? Limit the number of emails the public can send, naturally.
The House is limiting e-mails from the public to prevent its websites from crashing due to the enormous amount of mail being submitted on the financial bailout bill.
As a result, some [...]
With today’s $485 increase the Dow closed at $10,850. On September 24, just five days ago, it was $10,877.
Certainly the events of the week are concerning, but let’s not get overwrought.
Kick back and give a listen to this guy for a few well turned phrases!
If you like this, check him out on Why I am a Conservative Republican
Hat tip Anna
Cross Posted at Proof Positive
There’s a difference?
(CNN) ? The $700 billion financial plan for Wall Street failed in the House of Representatives because people are not convinced it is a “rescue effort,” Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain told CNN’s “American Morning.”“We haven’t convinced people that this is a rescue effort not [...]
[Guest post by DRJ]
Why do some women hate Sarah Palin?
That’s the subject of Mary Schmich’s article in last Sunday’s Chicago Tribune. Schmich concludes women hate Palin for any of several reasons: Her politics, especially on women’s issues. Her lack of credentials. Her fractured syntax. Her cockiness and the [...]
For me, a former McCain fan and admirer, someone who has written many columns praising him, someone I endorsed as a close-second to Ron Paul, this campaign has shredded whatever respect I once had for him. My bad, I guess, for not seeing before his narcissism, recklessness, cynicism, rank opportunism [...]
Clive Crook blames everyone for the bailout failure:
It would have been better to pass an imperfect bailout plan promptly than come up with an improved version after a delay of days or, heaven forbid, weeks--always assuming that it is improved, in the end, and does eventually pass...Whatever gets [...]
Because apparently if you own a gun and like to hunt, you’re racist. And anti-semitic.
Got that, clingers?
“Anybody toting guns and stripping moose don’t care too much about what they do with Jews and blacks.”
Better a gun-toting hunger from Alaska than a inauthentic lightweight born of the Chicago political [...]
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac do not deserve to be bailed out, but neither do workers, families and businesses deserve to be put through the economic wringer by a collapse of credit markets, such as occurred during the Great Depression of the [...]
