Read this open letter from the Heritage Foundation to President Obama. http://www.heritage.org/Press/Commentary/ed021309a.cfm
When I write political blogs, I make it my business to be harsh about the poor and down trodden. If I seem like I don’t have a lot of compassion, that is probably because I don’t have a lot of compassion. I don’t really like humans in general. I like individuals, however, a lot. Maybe I’m just the end product of the secular agenda. Humans are merely another large mammal that is barely self aware is driven mostly on instincts. Where instincts don’t fill in the gap, most humans are just a bun...
http://www.financialweek.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090203/REG/902039977/1003/TOC Barney Frank supports legislation that would put a cap on executive pay at all US companies. Now, I happen to think that if the government is handing out bailout money to a company that the government has every right to attach any strings they want. The company, after all, can decline said bailout if they don’t like the strings attached. But the idea that the federal government should have a ...
One of the things about right-wingers that really annoys me is when they tell people who don’t like some policy with the US that they should just move to another country. It’s just obnoxious. Of course, it’s annoying when left-wingers do it too. In JillUser’s blog asking that people who complain how the rich spend their own money to take an interest in how those on public assistance spend theirs, long time user Mumblefratz writes: I guess if that's how you look at it then t...
Last week I wrote an article detailing just how far left Time Magazine is. My objection isn't that these media outlets are biased, my objection is their insistence that they are "objective" and "balanced" which they most certainly are not.
American liberals tend to foam at the mouth about the existence of FOX News, a center-right media outlet but are often oblivious or in aggressive denial that MSNBC, CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, Newsweek, Time, Washington Post, New York Times, LA Times, etc. are all as far left as Fox News is right.
Liberals are quick to talk about how you can't get your news from Fox but see nothing wrong with regurgitating quotes from the latest issue of Newsweek or 60 minutes.
This week, I'll walk through Newsweek -- as seen through the eyes of a conservative...
Read on...
Disclaimer: If you are one of those people who determine who they like based on esoteric political views you should probably not read further and moreover, might want to reconsider your priorities.
For everyone else...
It seems like I'm constantly hearing from liberals how Fox News is just so right wing. They almost never give examples of what they mean by that. Is Hannity right wing? Definitely. How about O'Reilly? He's certainly not liberal but 50 years ago he would have been a Democrat in all likelihood. And besides, neither of them are hosting NEWS shows. They are commentators -- analysts. They're the equivalent of the editorial page.
If you then point out that CNN, MSNBC, ABC, NBC, CBS, NY Times, Washington Post, Time and Newsweek are as left of center as Fox is conservative they'll deny it.
So today, I'm going to walk you through the current issue of Time Magazine from the perspective of a conservative.
Let's start with the cover...
For the record, I was against Proposition 8 in California. I don't think the state should involve itself in what legal arrangements consenting adults make. If two gay people want to get married, that's fine with me. That said, the people of California voted (again) and they have decided that they don't want the state to acknowledge gay marriage. Now Google comes along and tries to sue to have this overturned based on the premise that it makes it harder to hire people in ...
In the beginning... There were 13 colonies, each considered themselves a sovereign independent state (what we would call a nation today). Virginia and New York, for instance, considered themselves as sovereign as England and France. The peace treaty between Great Britain and the United States was between Britain and the 13 specifically named independent states. As a means to largely defend themselves from powerful colonial powers as well as to discourage warring between themselves...
Healthcare includes Medicaid, Medicare, and other stuff. Pensions includes Social Security and pensions for government workers.
There is an excellent book called Rich Dad, Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money--That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not! I highly recommend it to people. In many discussions on-line, it becomes really apparent that most people don't really understand money. They know what it does but they have no idea how it works, where it comes from, and how to make more of it. Conceptually, it's straight forward: If I have $1 and my goal is to have more than $1 then I need to...
So my tax bill for April is starting to come together and it's looking pretty bad. I've been paying estimated taxes all year but we had a particularly good year this year and since many of our projects run under S-corporations, their profits get tied to my personal return (like most small business owners). Our company has around 70 people in it. We'd have more but we literally can't fit anyone else in the building. We're in the process of building out other parts...
I'm not personally into guns but I am a strong believer in the right for citizens to legally purchase pretty much any type of precision target weapon (i.e. guns). One of the strawman arguments I hear often is "Why not let people have nukes then?" and the reason is that the constitution intended citizens to bear arms -- specifically weapons that have a relatively high degree of precision. Explosives, canons, etc. are not precision weapons. Now before someone gets hung up on the above ...
Newsweek has seen its readership drop dramatically over the past few years. This doesn't surprise me as I used to be a subscriber to Newsweek but it increasingly drifted further and further left to the point where it wasn't just biased but started to feel like reading propaganda. I had been a subscriber for 10 years at the time. Here's an article discussing it. http://www.foliomag.com/2008/newsweek-mulls-dramatic-drop-circulation
For most people, discussing politics is like discussing football. Sure, it's interesting but it has very little actual affect on their lives at first glance. But in reality, people rarely recognize the unintended consequences of their beliefs. For instance, nearly every conversation with a tax hike supporter inevitably goes something like this: Me : I'm against raising the taxes on anyone, including the top 5%. Tax Supporter : Why? You can afford to pay more in taxes. You'v...