Categories: Politics, Letters to the Editor

Paul Ryan at the Heritage Foundation

On Wednesday, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan gave a speech at the Heritage Foundation. This sort of talk comes from a man who realizes that good policy can be, and right now probably is, good politics. If somehow Barack Obama wins re-electio… more »

Can't we just get along?

Joe Lawler is almost right to say that I'm "less concerned with unborn babies and more concerned with electoral success." I am concerned with the electoral success of principled candidates, and by "principled" I probably mean the same thing on at lea… more »

What are they afraid of?

At least one University of Colorado employee hopes that the public will not find out about their upcoming "bonus" payments because it might hurt public sentiment about Proposition 103. Read on... There is a public sector union in Colorado called Colora… more »

Dysfunctional Democrats destroy real jobs

Yesterday, the Senate rejected, on a 50-50 vote, a "jobs bill" which was a microcosm of President Obama's overall jobs-for-public-sector-union-members plan. Every Republican, along with two Democrats and Joe Lieberman, voted against the bill which would… more »

NLRB tyranny big and small

It's not just the headline-grabbing assault on Boeing which shows the NLRB's all-out assault on economic liberty in order to benefit labor unions; there are plenty of other minor, but equally criminal-in-intent, assaults happening daily. We just don't h… more »

Imagine there's no pizza

H/T Rusty Staff If this is a fake, it's a remarkably good one. Makes me like Cain even more if it's real, and reminds us again how Cain repeatedly, by statement or contrasting example, shows that liberals have no sense of humor. http://www.youtube.com… more »

Don't step in the Occu-Pie

My wife said to me yesterday evening that "Obama must be loving" the anti-capitalist protests around the US. Perhaps so, but I think they are at best a double-edged sword for Democrats. It's possible that the President and his henchmen, Reid and Pelosi… more »

Spicoli's political rantings

Sean Penn, the wildly liberal actor whose best work (perhaps due to its heartfelt authenticity with Penn) was probably playing Jeff Spicoli in Fast Times and Ridgemont High (though I thought he also gave a seminal performance in Team America: World Poli… more »

The evil of the Occupy-ers

H/T reason.tv It's not just the Occupy Wall Street anti-business and anti-capitalist sentiments which are destructive and evil. They've reached a new low in Patricia McAllister, who I hope becomes the new face of the protests: http://www.youtube.com/w… more »

Herman Cain on Occupy Wall Street protests

Herman Cain has a must-read piece in the New York Post explaining the hypocrisy and sloth represented by the Occupy Wall Street movement: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/look_in_the_mirror_VgluqmTp2PP8GHyQQ9XyYL more »