The president is pushing hard to borrow $50 billion more dollars from China so that he can funnel it to bloated unionized state bureaucracies in the name of an “emergency measure” to avoid "massive layoffs of teachers, police and firefighters”. This ...
Just in case you’re weren’t absolutely certain that the tax man was an evil supervillain, PA is making it completely clear. Get a load of that tagline: FIND US BEFORE WE FIND YOU Wow. Seriously. Are they kidding? I’ve come to believe that big government ...
There really is no area of life too small to avoid interference from the tyrant busybodies in government. Not even the provision of free donuts by a local B&B Do It Center. CNBC Reports on the latest episode in ludicrous food fascism: For more than a dozen years, the B&B Do It Center in ...
The administration is seeking a new tax on banks to, allegedly, help pay back the TARP funds. In one sense I welcome anything that raises the cost of interacting with the government. It SHOULD hurt to socialize your losses on the taxpayer (or better yet, it should be impossible). And I’m certainly not interesting in ...
Behold the REAL regulation of a free society: reputation. Despite the two companies' somewhat spotted history together, Greenpeace has awarded Apple four giant gold stars for its efforts to rid its products of brominated flame retardants (BFR) and polyvinyl chloride (PVC). (BFRs and PVC have long been on Greenpeace's ...
First, a little backstory. I work in Manhattan and have since I graduated college in 1999. I was headed into the city for my daily commute the morning of September 11th, 2001. I know people who’ve lost family in that horrible attack. So I’m pretty sensitive to everything about 9/11 and terrorism generally. Last sunday, December 20th, ...
So the very top scientists responsible for the IPCC’s reports on global warming, the basis for all this political “consensus” regarding anthropogenic (human-driven) global warming, have been colluding, conspiring and cooking the books. They also destroyed their source data and sought to avoid Freedom of Information Requests. That doesn’t inherently disprove their theory, but it ...
I noticed this amazing story floating around the blogs and just realized it’s from my home town of Allentown, PA (though it belongs in the pages of The Onion). The Morning Call reports on one of the most egregious acts of public employee union thuggery I can imagine. You can’t make this stuff ...
Property rights are very important but not absolute. They can often fight with other rights in the most extreme circumstances. For example, if my son ran onto someone’s property who had vicious rottweilers, I would feel justified in trespassing to get my son out of harm’s way. Similarly, it would not be justified for the ...
TARP’s looking like it’s morphing fully into a permanent slush fund for the Treasury department to dole out money to Wall Street and whoever else is politically connected enough to get a seat “at the table". Check out this amazing, disturbing interview with Neil Barofsky, the government’s special inspector general for the “Troubled Asset Relief ...
