Cato Institute’s Michael Tanner explains why the McCain-Sanders bill is not exactly an elixir for the grotesque VA woes. Instead, we get from our Washington politicians more of the same ineffective posturing–throw money at the problem and pray we, the voters, lose interest. Let’s hope they feel better about themselves, because it sure isn’t going […]
Archives for June 2014
America’s Out-of-Control Government
Floods of illegal immigrant children are being dumped on states. Are you in favor of this illegal federal government relocation scheme? Let your representatives in Washington here from you! Read what’s happening at Fort Sill in Oklahoma here. Oklahomans expect an economic boom as a result of the flood of illegal immigrant children the federal […]
Win By Not Losing
If you have a dollar and lose $0.25 you’re left with $0.75. You’ve lost 25% of what you had, but to get back to $1.00, you’ll have to generate 33% of what you have now. To get it back you could go to work or you could hope the market helps you out. In real […]
David Brat’s Freedom Fighters
Debbie and I received this most important letter from FreedomWorks President and CEO Matt Kibbe on the sensible and knowledgeable David Brat. Dick and Debbie, This week, an economics professor from a small liberal arts college in Virginia did something no one else has ever done: He handily defeated the sitting House Majority Leader in […]
Eric Cantor Resigns
Tea Party stalwarts helped cook Eric Cantor’s immigration goose. Now the heat needs to be turned up under Boehner! Republicans were in the grip of an intense power battle on Wednesday as rival factions in in the House of Representatives, which the party controls, jockeyed to replace the outgoing majority leader Eric Cantor. Cantor, whose […]
Ben Sasse, Senator In-Waiting
Here the Washington Post introduces Ben Sasse. Midland University President Ben Sasse on Tuesday won the Republican nomination to replace retiring Sen. Mike Johanns (R) this year. Democrats won’t contest the state this fall, making Sasse virtually a senator-in-waiting. But before jumping to conclusions that the tea party beat the establishment, note that Sasse doesn’t […]
Eric Cantor Announces Resignation
A Populist Path to Power?
Wall Street bailouters to jail? Here Pat Buchanan lays out the new populism worldwide theme and the real meaning of David Brat’s crushing of Eric Cantor. “I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.” If Thomas Jefferson’s […]
Uber Works
How hard would it be for taxis to come up with their own response to Uber? Apparently pretty hard. L. Gordon Crovitz writes in The WSJ: Maybe going on strike wasn’t the best way for London taxi drivers to protest Uber, the Internet-based car service invading from Silicon Valley. When riders couldn’t get cabs last […]
Iraq Fights Back
Stratfor offers a good analysis of the progress the Iraq government is making against the rebel insurgents. Reports indicate that the Iraqi army, aided by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, has checked the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant’s push south toward Baghdad. Forces allied with Baghdad apparently stopped the rebel fighters just north of As Samarra and […]
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