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The 47%…Raise Their Taxes!

13 May 2012 | Filed under: Political Commentary

Like 53% of American households, mine pays federal income taxes, meaning we subsidize the 47% who don’t pay. This is an untenable position. One of the principles of American life is the principle of fairness, and fairness dictates that everyone be treated the same; if I pay taxes, you must, …

The Judeo-Christian Definition of Marriage

13 May 2012 | Filed under: Political Commentary

I’ve been following all of the attempts around the nation to change the definition of marriage. I remember, when I was younger, being quite enthralled at marriage as practiced in the Bible. It was the story of Jacob, who returns to the ancestral homeland in search of a wife. Jacob …

Europe in Purgatory

9 May 2012 | Filed under: Political Commentary

“The consensus seems to be in favor of heading straight for the fiscal cliff,” write Thomas Lifson and Rick Moran in Europe’s Morning After at the American Thinker. In a revealing analysis, the writers take voters in recent European elections to task. Although the measures over the past few years …

Restraint in Government

17 April 2012 | Filed under: Political Commentary

Except for the title, Report: Democrat-controlled Senate laziest in 20 years, Paul Bedard writes an exceptionally laudatory article on the Democratic Senate, demonstrating restraint in government. As with Jefferson, conservatives acknowledge that “That government is best which governs the least,” and according to the article, that describes the 112th Senate. Heaping …

Single Taxation: A Proposal

17 April 2012 | Filed under: Political Commentary

Mike Brownfield at The Foundry makes a very interesting point in Morning Bell: Tax Gimmicks, Tax Doom1. Referring to Warren Buffett, and by extension to Mitt Romney, he notes that Mr. Buffett is really taxed not at 15%, but at 50%, since he is subject to double taxation. Double taxation happens …

Eviscerating American Power

11 April 2012 | Filed under: Political Commentary

John Bolton, former UN ambassador during the Bush administration, writes a reasoned and sensible article1 about the dangers the Obama administration presents to the military readiness of the nation. As Bolton notes, the Obama administration is eviscerating the defense budget. For example, the defense budget for 2013 sees a 1% …

The Meek Should Inherit the White House

8 April 2012 | Filed under: Political Commentary

Robert Knight of the Washington Times, in Obama’s bullying pulpit1, makes a insightful and rather devastating analysis of Barack Obama lack of meekness and his ill-suitedness to be President. Quoting a rather fawning article2 by Nicholas Kristoff about Obama being a man of the world, Knight notes that Obama described …

Saving Rush

28 March 2012 | Filed under: Political Commentary

Jeffrey Lord at the American Spectator writes a reasonable article on The Plot to Get Rush. He weaves a convincing tale of Angelo Carusone of Media Matters and his success in getting Glenn Beck off the air (the Stop Beck campaign), and how he is now targeting Rush Limbaugh (Rush …

Ryan Plan Helps the Poor

22 March 2012 | Filed under: Political Commentary

James Pethokoukis writes a very interesting column at The Enterprise Blog on No, Paul Ryan’s new budget wouldn’t ‘hurt the poor’. In it he insists that the primary goal of Paul Ryan’s Path to Prosperity is to help the poor, and that how well it lifts the poor out of …

Obamacare, Medicare, and the Ryan Plan

21 March 2012 | Filed under: Political Commentary

Republicans and conservatives have written numerous sensible columns decrying the loss of freedom and the advent of socialism in the Obama healthcare reform plan. David Hogberg, writing in March of 2010 at Investors.com on 20 Ways ObamaCare Will Take Away Our Freedoms, delineates some of the freedoms which Americans will …

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