In A Man for All Seasons, Robert Bolt’s award winning play about Sir Thomas More’s opposition to Henry the Eighth’s annulment of his marriage to his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, there occurs this exchange between More and his friend the Duke of Norfolk:
Norfolk: Oh confound all this. I’m not a scholar, I don’t know whether the [...]
Yesterday, in response to a post written by Jim Maule of Mauled Again, I wrote:
If we were honest with ourselves, we would admit that we are all socialists. We all believe that there should be at least some communal pooling of resources to achieve certain national aims that cannot or should not be left to [...]
Tags: Philosophy · Politics
Chris Edwards of Cato gives us Six Reasons to Downsize the Federal Government. I was going to re-publish only my favorite of the six reasons, but they are all so important I couldn’t choose among them.
Here’s all six:
1. Additional federal spending transfers resources from the more productive private sector to the less productive public sector of the [...]
Tags: Politics
Senator Jim Bunning (R-KY) has struck a deal with Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) to stop his filibuster of the Senate jobs bill:
Bunning has accepted a deal to drop his one-man filibuster of a bill that would extend expiring unemployment benefits for hundreds of thousands of people.
Reid’s office has confirmed to TPMDC that Bunning accepted the deal, but declined to provide [...]
Tags: Legislative Watch · News · Politics
Just in from NBC News/NY report:
Harlem Democrat Charles Rangel now says he will step down as chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, NBC News has learned.
He may make the move as early as tonight and Michigan Democratic Rep Sander Levin will temporarily take over the committee.
Some details still need to be ironed out, but [...]
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“If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too….”
- Rudyard Kipling, If -
I hereby nominate Senator Jim Bunning for the 2010 Profile in Courage Award.
Every year Caroline Kennedy, on behalf of the [...]
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IQ tests are about to be respectable again.
In 1994 Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray published a book on intelligence titled The Bell Curve. Because liberals nearly unaimously loathed the conclusions reached by the book’s authors, the book was called “a disservice to and abuse of science”, “a deliberate assault on efforts to improve the school performance of African-Americans”, and “a genteel way [...]
Tags: Politics
“I am running for President of the United States to enable the Goddess of Peace to encircle within her arms all the children of this country and all the children of the world.”
- Dennis Kucinich -
Remember Dennis Kucinich? He’s the strange little Democrat who ran for President in 2008 on ideas that would have spooked Rod Serling.
Now [...]
Tags: Legislative Watch · Politics · The Economy
As expected, demogogues from both sides of the political spectrum have been exploiting yesterday’s bombing of an Austin, Texas federal building by Andrew Joseph Stack. Liberal bloggers claim that Stack was the quintessential tea partier who hated government, taxes and the IRS. Conservative bloggers claim that Stack was a model socialist who hated organized religion, big business and the rich.
They’re both right.
Yesterday, I [...]
Misunderestimated, stategery, nucular. Bush got pilloried for those malapropisms, and probably deservedly so.
But the great orator, his Holiness the Dali Obama, speaking at a prayer breakfast this morning three times prounounced the word “corpsman” with a hard “p.” Nary a word from the left. Not a shred of national embarrassment. No diagnoses of dyslexia.
Now, I admit there [...]
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Wall Street Journal – Taxes Blog
