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Relevance: 32% Posted on: July 8, 2022
Died on this date, American founding politician, Luther Martin [pictured], in 1826. Martin is famed among founding fathers for refusing to sign the U.S. Constitution, seeing the new compact as unduly centralizing and nationalistic. On July 8, 1839, American industrialist John D. Rockefeller was born. On this same date in…
Relevance: 32% Posted on: February 10, 2021
Want to know how Washington works? Or doesn’t work? Drafting legislation to provide COVID (and COVID lockdown) relief, President Joe Biden and Congress contemplate just how big to make the next round of government checks sent to “the inhabitants of America.” And which folks to send the freshly printed moolah.…
Relevance: 31% Posted on: May 20, 2013
It’s no surprise to long-time observers of the Obama administration, the Internal Revenue Service, or government in general that the IRS has targeted non-lefty groups for reasons the agency laughably contends are non-ideological. The current brouhaha is only part of the story. Here’s another part. Frank VanderSloot is a businessman…
Relevance: 30% Posted on: December 13, 2013
“The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives,” wrote G.K. Chesterton. “The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected.” This pretty much sums up modern politics. And it pretty much explains my lack of…
Relevance: 28% Posted on: May 22, 2013
MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry says “no one was fundamentally harmed” by the IRS’s targeting of Obama-unapproved applicants for tax-exempt status. (Go to 4:00 of the video to skip the preceding lies.) Elsewhere, detestable Bill Maher inquires: “Is it unreasonable [for IRS] to target an anti-tax group?” Good lord. I’ve discussed the…
Relevance: 28% Posted on: April 15, 2012
The common-sense column this weekend is up on Townhall.com, now, so please click on over and give it a try. And then come back here for links: Hilary Rosen what Hilary said what Hillary said, years ago Jane Fonda Ron Paul on Mitt's wealth
Relevance: 27% Posted on: August 5, 2016
There’s no accounting for taste, especially regarding humor. For instance, the 1966 film “The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming” is, to me, a classic. And I think Donald Trump’s recent sarcasm — “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing.”…
Relevance: 27% Posted on: April 15, 2015
Is it a good thing or a bad thing that a presidential candidate demonstrates an ability to raise enough money to effectively reach the “inhabitants of America” with his political message? On Friday, National Public Radio’s The Diane Rehm Show took a further drag on our tax dollars to take…
Relevance: 27% Posted on: December 26, 2016
All informed, concerned adults should vote. If they want to. Yes, I am all for ballot access, and suggestions that we must minimize the vote in any election elicit a shiver: calls for voter participation reduction give me the creeps. But that does not mean that every push for increased…
Relevance: 26% Posted on: January 23, 2012
Newt Gingrich came from behind for a smashing victory in South Carolina’s primary last Saturday. And yet a more interesting story may be emerging in Iowa: Rick Santorum, not Romney, is apparently the Republican caucus winner. Though that’s not counting the eight precincts whose official results forms went missing. This…
Relevance: 26% Posted on: June 6, 2012
In 1947, at the first meeting of the Mont Pelerin Society, the free-market conference in Switzerland, august Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises harrumphed that young Milton Friedman and many other budding anti-socialists of those dark days of mid-century Western culture were, in reality, “all a bunch of socialists.” Mises stormed…
Relevance: 25% Posted on: August 7, 2016
Russia. The Bear. Putin. The Tyrant. America. The Oblivious? Click on over to Townhall for further variations on a theme. With Trump in the picture. Then retreat back here, for your further edification: C-Span: Donald Trump on Russia and Missing Hillary Clinton Emails New York Times: Cash Flowed to Clinton…
Relevance: 25% Posted on: March 25, 2012
This weekend's Townhall.com column is about the Trayvon Martin case. Check it out, and come back here for relevant links: GOP Candidates on Shooting Obama on soul-searching for all of us Background on Trayvon Martin Background on George Zimmerman And finally, there's Geraldo:
Relevance: 24% Posted on: December 23, 2014
Some people sighed a big sigh this last week: a few with a grateful, “at long last” sense of relief; others with all the hopefulness that Sisyphus must’ve felt each time he put shoulder to boulder at the bottom of the mountain, and started rolling his fated rock up the…
Relevance: 20% Posted on: May 2, 2012
The first rule of No Fight Club is that there is no fight. Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) went to the well of the U.S. House of Representatives to indignantly declare, “There is absolutely no fight.” Mr. Boehner is correct. That’s not the good news, it’s the bad. As with so…
Relevance: 20% Posted on: June 20, 2013
James “Whitey” Bulger adamantly denies two of the 19 murders he’s accused of committing and for which he’s now on trial in a Boston federal court, along with facing a dozen lesser charges. Decades ago, the 83-year old reputed mobster allegedly ran much of the city’s organized crime. Whitey may…
Relevance: 20% Posted on: June 15, 2012
Party politics is often underhanded. Many of our country’s founders knew this all too well, and tried to avoid the factionalism of party politics. But still, two political factions emerged, and our politics has been dominated by two parties ever since. And believe me, the two insider parties work mightily…
Relevance: 20% Posted on: March 13, 2012
Petroleum-based fuels are going up in price, so naturally people start looking for someone to blame. Call up the Usual Suspects: Speculators. These futures market folks never get credit for lowering the prices of gas, but they can always be counted on to serve as easy “bad guy” targets when…
Relevance: 19% Posted on: February 12, 2014
“I promise you that we hold everybody up and down the line accountable,” President Barack Obama told Bill O’Reilly of Fox News during last Sunday’s Super Bowl interview . . . and with a straight face. When studies show one in 20 food stamp transactions to be fraudulent; when the…
Relevance: 19% Posted on: August 22, 2012
There are few things less inspiring than listening to Republican and Democratic Party candidates and their flunkies discuss entitlement reform. Last weekend, the Romney camp defended its newly acquired reform high-ground from assaults by the current administration. Rep. Paul Ryan had famously charged that the Democrats’ health care reform package…