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...
I've seen the argument that we should have the federal government raise taxes back to where they were in the Clinton years. Such an argument ignores the bigger picture because when the federal government lowered taxes, a lot of states, including Michigan where I live, raised theirs. Let's look at Mr. Rich guy who makes $1M a year (after deductions) and owns a $1M home and lives in Michigan. About $300,000 of his income will go to federal income taxes. Another $40,000 will go...
Auto Bailouts Will Give Us Detroitsky A Chapter For Detroit To Open Wouldn't it be great to live in a world where everything was free? You sure? Plants are people too..? Detroit: Same Old, Same Old
Great article by Walter E. Williams that helps explain why socialism is a fundamentally evil concept. I'd go even further and say it's also insipid because its supporters actually believe that supporting socialism actually makes them morally superior. Imagine there's an elderly widow down the street from you. She has neither the strength to mow her lawn nor enough money to hire someone to do it. Here's my question to you that I'm almost afraid for the answer: Would you support a go...
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Great article outlining the different views of left and right wing Americans. http://townhall.com/columnists/DennisPrager/2008/10/14/there_are_two_irreconcilable_americas