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

Good article at the WSJ discussing the likely results of the upcoming election. - Medicare for all . When HillaryCare cratered in 1994, the Democrats concluded they had overreached, so they carved up the old agenda into smaller incremental steps, such as Schip for children. A strongly Democratic Congress is now likely to lay the final flagstones on the path to government-run health insurance from cradle to grave. Mr. Obama wants to build a public insurance program, modeled after...

Watching Obama absolutely crush McCain in the third debate. It's just so painful.  Republicans decided to have a "moderate" old maverick. They got their wish.

I really can't wait until this election comes and GOES. I'm a conservative and I make no bones about it. I keep up on politics and foreign affairs as a hobby all the time. But every 4 years, suddenly lay people who barely pay attention suddenly become political experts ready to insult the intelligence of those who disagree with them. It's particularly annoying reading Digg, a site I usually like but is populated by left-wingers who, if asked, say that Digg is dominated by left-wingers...

Gotta check these out. http://www.airbedandbreakfast.com/capnmccains http://www.airbedandbreakfast.com/obamaos

Very good article at the Washington Post today by Andrew Klavan Myth # 1. Hollywood has no political agenda -- it's just out to make money . Would that it were so. All through 2007, Hollywood sent American multiplexes the message: "We don't like the war on terror." All year, American moviegoers sent a message back to Hollywood: "We don't care." "Lions for Lambs," "In the Valley of Elah," "Redacted," "Rendition" -- movie...

I've said before that there's no circumstance I would vote for McCain. But watching how he has dealt with this financial crisis reminds me why I would never support him. He's no maverick. There's no straight talk. He's just a politician with a marketing slogan who doesn't really know why he wants to be President.  He's Bob Dole II and he's going to lose like him. Obama, by contrast, deserves to win.  I don't agree with Obama on any major issues. But he knows why he wants to be Pre...

Controversial celebrity photographer Jill Greenberg, a self-professed "hard-core Dem," deliberately took a series of unflattering shots of Republican nominee John McCain for the current cover of The Atlantic - and then bragged about it on a blog. Read the whole thing here: http://www.nypost.com/seven/09142008/news/politics/mac_hater_has_a_lousy_image_129007.htm It grows tiresome in every political season when inevitably someone says that "both sides" do repr...

More and more you can find out whether someone is a liberal or a conservative (in the American sense of the words) by getting the answer to a simple question: Do you think the average person is too stupid to do the right thing? If you answer yes, you're probably a liberal. If you answer no, you're probably a conservative.  Obviously it's not a 100% truism but in most discussions with people in "real life" (or on-line) the inevitable root distinction between the two...

While 82% of voters who support McCain believe the justices should rule on what is in the Constitution, just 29% of Barack Obama’s supporters agree. Just 11% of McCain supporters say judges should rule based on the judge’s sense of fairness, while nearly half (49%) of Obama supporters agree . Read the whole thing: http://hotair.com/archives/2008/09/09/rasmussen-only-29-of-obama-supporters-think-supreme-court-should-decide-cases-based-on-constitution/ I think t...

Here's an obviously partisan article that was food for thought: http://www.examiner.com/x-722-Conservative-Politics-Examiner~y2008m9d4-What-if-Obama-was-just-some-guy-at-your-office It essentially asks people to look at their own lives and ask themselves whether they would want Obama to be the CEO of the company they currently work at. Obama has been on the job 143 days so far and in those 143 days, he has made it pretty clear he just wants the top spot. He likes to refer to him...