I have never in my life seen liberals this passionate about property rights.
Imagine the following scenarios then tell me what you think the left’s reaction would be:
A fundamentalist Christian organization opens up a community center next door to an abortion clinic
The southern Baptists erect a church and recreation center across the street from a Gay [...]
Julian Assange is a modern day Tokyo Rose¹ and an enemy of the United States.
John Hinderaker of Power Line has a great post on the Wikileaks scandal (emphasis is mine):
Today Wikileaks founder Julian Assange offered an… interpretation of America’s Constitution: if you support freedom of speech, then you have to endorse Wikileaks’ illegal leaking of classified documents [...]
“It is thus necessary that the individual should finally come to realize that his own ego is of no importance in comparison with the existence of the nation, that the position of the individual is conditioned soley by the interests of the nation as a whole.”
- Adolf Hitler -
You would think, of all people, a German [...]
Tags: Philosophy · Politics · Tax Policy
I often disagree with Derek Thompson of The Atlantic, but when he writes in 66% of Americans Want Higher Taxes on Rich, But there’s a Catch about the dangers of relying on public opinion polls he is right on target:
Two-thirds of Americans support keeping the Bush tax cuts only for families earning less than $250,000 per [...]
Tags: Politics · Polls · The Economy
As if we needed more proof that we live in a topsy-turvy world.
Sam Hananel of the Associated Press has this astonishing report, which, I suspect, will soon be appearing in Ripleys Believe it or Not:
Companies using criminal records or bad credit reports to screen out job applicants might run afoul of anti-discrimination laws as the government [...]
Tags: Philosophy · Politics
Instead of admiring the successful and trying to learn from them, we delude ourselves that their successes were obtained either by dumb luck or nefarious means.
Catherine Rampell of the New York Times takes on the White House for damning the successful in Are the Rich Just Lucky?
Here’s the entire post:Â
Christopher Bergin, the president and publisher of Tax Analysts, [...]
Tags: Politics · Politics of Taxes
Politico reports that over the past 14 years the U.S. government has paid out nearly $1 million a year in settlements to congressional employees who have been harassed by Congressmen:
For privacy reasons, the details of all these cases — including the names of the victims and the alleged harassers — are almost never made public. [...]
Tags: Legislative Watch · Politics
This post has nothing to do with taxes. I have written it because I like the headline.
The Chicago Tribune reports that Al Gore is being investigated for the suspected 2006 sexual assault of a massage therapist in a Portland Hotel:
Police explained Thursday why they reopened a sexual assault investigation into Al Gore, saying an extra review [...]
My mom doesn’t get around that well anymore. She was in the supermarket yesterday and asked a twenty-something employee to help her get a one pound bag of flour from a high shelf.
Here was the high school graduate’s response:
Ma’am, there are no one pound bags up there, only 16 ounces.
I hate to pick on this kid because he was very [...]
You know times are a’changin’ when the free marketarian philosopher Friederich Hayek is at the top of the best seller list.
Here are 10 of my favorite Hayek quotes followed by my own takes on them:
A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers – Today there are folks from the [...]
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Wall Street Journal – Taxes Blog
