Never Waste a Crisis: How Obama Administration Created an Auto Crisis

Remember the sentiments expressed by Obama’s Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel?  He warned President Obama to never let a good crisis go to waste.  I think it’s fair to say that Obama is a good listener and has taken those words to heart.  Not only does he seize every opportunity to label each and every [...]

“We Rescued the Economy”

FAIL! FAIL! FAIL!

Lessons from the Ant and Grasshopper

By Mickey White originally posted at WithBias.net

You’ve heard the fable about the Ant and the Grasshopper, it’s the one that is supposed to teach you the value of hard work and the need to save for a ‘rainy day’. Well it occurred to me the other day that under the current government, that fable no [...]

Truthers and other Strangers

Note: This piece originally appeared on Daria DiGiovanni’s blog Palin Drone, on April 12, 2009
 Conservatives and their next-of-kin, libertarians — much like some actual families — have tended to co-exist in a sort of marriage of convenience. It’s  oftentimes an uneasy alliance, whereby the shared outlook on limited government, taxes and economic issues form the [...]

Death and Taxes

The first is inevitable, the second wasn’t always so onerous. Here’s a history of taxation in the United States. It’s long but incredibly interesting.
Bearing in mind that the power to tax is the power to destroy, which system would you prefer to live in? One that is straight forward and takes only what’s necessary or [...]

The Slam ‘Heard Round the World

Recently we got a new TV. And even though I enjoy it, I promise you if we had bricks in the living room, numerous bricks would have been thrown into our new TV. Now I am going to be honest, I have been upset for a while. Although I did like President Bush’s social views, [...]