Jonathan Gruber, the MIT economist, an “architect” of Obamacare, and the guy who stepped on so many land mines in his now famous videos, has an upcoming new role. Mr. Gruber is going to Capital Hill on Tuesday as a congressional witness to answer questions about all those things he said, like the “lack of […]
Ugliness on the Bayou
NRO’s John Fund describes Mary Landrieu’s bid for reelection as “an ugly, dark campaign that invents facts, stirs up racial animus, and distorts reality.” Sounds like a page out of True Detective. Senator Mary Landrieu comes from a political dynasty in Louisiana — her father was mayor of New Orleans, and her brother is the […]
Mary Landrieu and the Party of Jim Crow
Originally posted October 27, 2014. Would you know what to do if you, with only a knife and your wits, encountered a bear in the woods? Meet Mr. Elbert Guillory, state senator from Louisiana, who would suggest that you get in close, inside the bear’s paws and under its chin. Along with being a […]
“Temporary” since the 1980s
Michael Tanner, senior fellow at the Cato Institute, explains in NRO why the “tax extenders” bill—bad legislation with bipartisan support—should be dumped. Here are just some of the special interest winners in this “temporary” (since the 1980s) tax bill: The “green energy” lobby—from electric cars to energy efficient appliances to ethanol producers. Hollywood, railroads, NASCAR, […]
Immigration Humpty Dumpty
As Cato Institute’s Ilya Shapiro (senior fellow in constitutional studies) points out, the U.S. immigration system “serves nobody’s interests—not big business or small, not skilled or unskilled workers, not the economic or national security.” And while there’s plenty of blame to land squarely on the shoulders of Congress for not fixing our immigration mess, nothing […]
Derangement at the EPA
After “investing” tens of billions of taxpayer dollars of federal subsidies for Solyndra, Fisker Auto, battery plants and other mega-green energy losers, the U.S. still gets only about 3 percent of its electric power from wind and solar power. Stephen Moore, along with Kathleen Hartnett-White, write in the Washington Times, that if you think President […]
An Obamacare Mea Culpa
“Unfortunately, Democrats blew the opportunity the American people gave them. We took their mandate and put all of our focus on the wrong problem: health-care reform.” — U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer Read more here from the WSJ on why Chuck Schumer—a leading Democratic ideologist—is now admitting that instead of jamming the O’Care fiasco down voters […]
A Fraud of Gruberian Proportions
The main objective of the Obama-Xi agreement commits China “to begin cutting carbon omissions 16 years from now.” Charles Krauthammer in NRO points out that under the Obama-Xi agreement “the U.S. must double its current rate of carbon cutting to meet a new, more restrictive goal by 2025.” China, however, will continue increasing its carbon […]
$2 Trillion in Taxpayer Spending—for What?
Originally posted April 3, 2014. In the Rose Garden several days ago, Obama was basking in what he claims is the success of his O’Care, but he was not allowing any questions. Here Cato Institute’s Michael Tanner asks the tough questions that apparently the administration does not want to answer. Chief among the questions is, […]
Read Our Lips
Although not official by any standards, a benchmark definition of a middle-class income is approximately $25,000 to $75,000 a year. Why the $50,000 gap? To take into account the cost of living between, say, San Fran and Des Moines, Iowa. So if you earn a middle-class income and a live in a state with high […]
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