If you're one that has great care or concern for: Freedom, Islamicization, pluralism, reason...you're one who should watch this interview.
July 30, 2010
A DANDY; FROM THE 'DO AS I SAY, NOT AS I DO' CROWD...
More shamelessly, lazy BS from the left. It's no wonder that so many good books pop up from astute, conservative writers...the material is endless. Matt Lewis writes.
July 26, 2010
HOWARD DEAN: IDIOT CRACKPOT DEMOCRAT. IN CASE YOU WEREN'T SURE.
Howard Dean is the poster child for liberalism; and Chris Wallace minces him.
The great MahaRushie once said so brilliantly: "Evidence refutes liberalism"
;)
The great MahaRushie once said so brilliantly: "Evidence refutes liberalism"
;)
July 25, 2010
July 21, 2010
NEWT GINGRICH DESCRIBES HOW VERY UNCOMPLICATED IT REALLY IS: JOB KILLERS vs. JOB CREATORS
Job Killers vs. Job Creators
Posted 07/21/2010 ET
The campaign this fall can be boiled down to a simple choice: job-killers versus job-creators.
With so many Americans out of work, candidates will win decisive victories if they can show their opponent’s policies will kill jobs and their policies will create jobs.
Governing is about having the right principles, policies, processes and people.
Successful leaders hold principles that work in the real world, and these principles lead them to the right policies. And because they are determined to measure results, they develop processes that work. Finally, with the right principles, policies, and processes, they look for people who are driven, practical, and experienced to get the right things done the right way.
Unfortunately, under the Pelosi-Reid Congress and the Obama presidency, government has become a job-killing system thanks to a set of principles, policies, processes and people that are completely disconnected from reality.
I describe this alien ideology in my book To Save America: Stopping Obama’s Secular-Socialist Machine. It is a fundamentally anti-work, anti-investment, anti-entrepreneurial ideology that has led to economic stagnation and spiritual decay wherever it has been tried.
We can already see the results of this radical ideology in America.
The American work ethic is being replaced with a mindset that favors “gaming” the system to get away with working as little as possible.
American productivity is being replaced with a set of union work rules and bureaucracy that makes us too slow, too expensive and too cumbersome.
The historic American commitment to local representation and local control is being replaced by an emphasis on federal concentration of power and rule by bureaucrats and judges that is stripping Americans of their rights and responsibilities.
A commitment to religious freedom and God-given rights is being replaced by a secular oppression that increasingly resembles the government-imposed atheism of Soviet totalitarianism. (I encourage you to watch the documentary Nine Days that Changed the World, which Callista and I host and produced, to learn about the plight of the Polish people under Communism and the brave moral leadership of Pope John Paul II that helped topple the Soviet Union.)
The secular-socialist machine of the left has made the recession worse by suppressing the natural resiliency of the American economy and setting the stage for even worse economic challenges in the future.
For President Obama, the years he spent studying and teaching the radicalism of Saul Alinsky laid the foundation for a job-killing, anti-business attitude.
If you believe business is bad, you will convince it to go away.If you are determined to tax small business owners, entrepreneurs, successful corporate leaders, investors, and innovators they will either avoid taxable behavior or leave the country entirely.
If you impose absurd regulatory controls totally out of touch with reality, you will kill jobs.
The Obama Administration’s moratorium on offshore drilling has already sent high-paying good jobs and tax-paying, profitable companies out of the United States. Obama has been good for jobs in Egypt and the Congo (where the first two oil rigs have gone) but he has killed jobs in Louisiana.
The President’s proposed energy taxes will kill jobs in America but they will create jobs in China (which this year passed America as the world’s largest user of energy).
The recently passed government control of the financial system will be good for jobs in London, Tokyo, Frankfurt, Shanghai and other foreign financial centers but it will kill jobs and profits in the United States.
We have seen job killers implement job-killing policies before.
President Carter had a whole series of job-killing policies from 1977 to 1980 and they worked. They killed a lot of jobs.
Politicians in Detroit have been killing jobs for two decades. Only with Mayor Dave Bing's new job-oriented approach has there been any hope of rebuilding Detroit's economy.
We have all seen the state governments of New York and California adopt policies that kill jobs and drive businesses and successful individuals out of their states.
On the other side, we have seen a job creator like Gov. Rick Perry implement policies which in 2008 led Texas to create as many jobs as the other 49 states combined.
Governors Mitch Daniels in Indiana, Tim Pawlenty in Minnesota, Haley Barbour in Mississippi, Sonny Perdue in Georgia, and Bobby Jindal in Louisiana are all examples of principled job creators whose policies work.
We are in the worst economy since the Great Depression.
The only recent improvements in unemployment numbers have come about because people have quit looking for work and so are no longer counted as unemployed.
Under this model, if President Obama could convince every unemployed American to quit looking for work, we would have zero percent unemployment.
The number would be great but the reality would be horrible.
The simple choice this fall is between job killers and job creators. Over the next few newsletters, I will expand on this theme with some detailed examples.
Your friend,
Newt
Via Human Events
July 20, 2010
July 19, 2010
BYE BYE: WATCH BAD GUYS FLY
Sending them to see their 72 virgins a little early.... on our terms.
God bless our troops ;)
ON THE MARKETING OF BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS
If you're one in particular to follow economics, you've likely been reading much about behavioral economics; it's become quite popular for reasons this read gets into.
July 17, 2010
EYES WIDE SHUT: THIS ONE GOES OUT TO THE 'GLOBE IS HEATING UP AGAIN' CROWD...
...It's heating up, AND cooling down.
The Warmists have been only telling half of the story...get the whole story and all the heretical data here.
Red = warmer
Blue = cooler
The Warmists have been only telling half of the story...get the whole story and all the heretical data here.
Blue = cooler
July 16, 2010
July 15, 2010
July 14, 2010
ECON-NOBRAINER
On the economy: it's really irrelevant whether any one person - or group thinks that President Obama is a socialist, what really matters is if business believes that he's a socialist.
-MHB
-MHB
"IT'S THE ECONOMY, STUPID"...
...the line made famous by legendary liberal, James Carville. Legendary, mostly because he, and most liberal talking heads do...make statements of "fact" with expiration. For Carville, his statement expired the day Barack Obama became President - of course.
Being that memories are long for the ever vigilant conservatives...credibility matters! As this FT piece has noticed.
As this insightful piece adds...it's not JUST the economy this time.
God help us. And may God help this President/adminstration get smart.
Being that memories are long for the ever vigilant conservatives...credibility matters! As this FT piece has noticed.
As this insightful piece adds...it's not JUST the economy this time.
God help us. And may God help this President/adminstration get smart.
July 13, 2010
EXCELLENT READ: WALTER RUSSELL MEAD
>The Big Green Lie Exposed
"The global process is in an even deeper hole. The greens, it is increasingly clear, bet the ranch on the Copenhagen process. That horrible meltdown, perhaps the biggest and most chaotic public embarrassment in the history of multilateral summits, turned climate change from global poster boy to global pariah. The green activists who advised their bosses to go to that summit and make large public commitments about global warming are in the doghouse now. Success is sometimes the most cruel and definitive form of failure: the Copenhagen Summit was exactly that kind of success for the climate change movement. They got all the world leaders together, got every television camera on the planet to focus in — and let everybody see just how confused and utopian their plans really were."
July 11, 2010
July 9, 2010
July 8, 2010
ALGORE: A.K.A. "CRAZED SEX POODLE"
This is a gem from the from the 'Sarah Palin is dangerous' crowd.
Algore in action: photo captures Algore pushing yet another turd the left has been buying his whole life ;)
I'll repeat what I've been saying for a while; New Media is the death nell of the neo-liberalism as we have known it.
I'll repeat what I've been saying for a while; New Media is the death nell of the neo-liberalism as we have known it.
JOHN HINDERAKER: SUBSIDIZING INEFFICIENCY
" Corn is great food, but lousy energy. Energy derived from corn--ethanol--cannot compete in the marketplace with more efficient sources of energy, like petroleum, unless its producers get money from the government to artificially lower the price of their product. This is what is known as "green energy." It amounts to having a bonfire with your money. Well, no, not exactly a bonfire, since, while there is undeniably a net inefficiency and thus a destruction of wealth, your money doesn't go up in smoke. Rather, your tax dollars are transferred to a combination of Midwestern farmers and politically connected ethanol plant developers. Like other government subsidy programs, it's great if you get to cash the checks, but bad if you are a taxpayer or an energy buyer.
At The Corner, Kevin Williamson makes some excellent points:
A little perspective:TARP was just a temporary aberration, whereas the "green economy" is here to say--which is to say that the Democrats intend the subsidies to be permanent "
BP's oil-spill cleanup bill, so far: $3.2 billion
Money BP is setting aside for the total bill: $20 billion
Annual cost of U.S. ethanol subsidies: $5 billion
Ethanol subsidies going to BP this year: $600 million
Conclusions: Every four years, U.S. taxpayers are subsidizing the energy firms by an amount equal to the maximum that BP expects to spend on the cleanup. BP specifically will collect an equivalent amount every 33 years. This year's BP ethanol subsidy by itself will offset about 20 percent of what BP has spent on the cleanup so far.
And that's just one subsidy program.
Tell me again why this "green economy" stuff is not a scam.
The banks paid back their TARP money, and the nation remains scandalized by that bailout. What are the chances the energy industry is going to pay back a penny of the billions we're pouring on them through green energy subsidies?
July 7, 2010
DONALD BERWICK: OPPOSE FREE MARKETS, THE STATE KNOWS BETTER THAN YOU
Introducing Obama's new Head of centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services. Prepare to gird your loins, folks.
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