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Time to End Public Sector Unions

by SteveK @ Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011. Tags: , , , , , , ,
Filed under Economics, Government, Unions

There is absolutely no reason for public sector unions to exist. They should be illegal. As Jonah Goldberg points out in his latest article:
“Traditional, private-sector unions were born out of an often-bloody adversarial relationship between labor and management. It’s been said that during World War I, U.S. soldiers had better odds of surviving on the [...]

Liberty vs. Benevolence or the Tyranny of ‘Good’ Intentions

by SteveK @ Thursday, February 3rd, 2011. Tags: , , , , , , ,
Filed under Culture, Economics, Government, History

Nothing seems to produce more harm in this world than ‘good’ intentions with unlimited power.
The following is an excerpt from Liberty vs. benevolence by Roger Kimball, and is featured in the February issue of The New Criterion along with other essays by various authors on “The Wisdom of the Founders” and the ideal of limited [...]

NOW President Believes Government Should Run a Deficit to Keep Social Programs

by SteveK @ Tuesday, January 25th, 2011. Tags: , , , , , ,
Filed under Culture, Economics, Family, Government

CNSNews reports that “Terry O’Neill, president of the National Organization for Women and Heidi Hartmann, president of the Institute for Women’s Policy Research have urged the federal government not to cut funding for social programs.
When asked if they would support cuts to social programs and other entitlements with the nation facing over a $14 trillion [...]

Poll Claims Americans Want Higher Taxes for “Rich”: MSNBC Plays Class Warfare

by SteveK @ Tuesday, January 4th, 2011. Tags: , , , , , , ,
Filed under Culture, Economics, Government, Media

Citing a poll alleging that 60 percent of Americans want higher taxes for the “rich” as a ’solution’ to the budget crises, the Morning Joe panel on MSNBC chimed in with the typical responses one would expect. From lamenting tax cuts for the so-called rich (rarely defined, but rather amorphous) to suggesting that the middle [...]

America Under Mountain of New Debt

by SteveK @ Wednesday, December 29th, 2010. Tags: , , , ,
Filed under Economics, Government, History

The federal government has accumulated more debt than the first 100 Congresses combined according to official debt figures published by the U.S. Treasury.
$3.22 trillion in new federal debt was run up during the 111th Congress and is 64 percent greater than the $1.957 trillion in debt run up during the 110th Congress. Democrats controlled both the 110th [...]

Obama Administration Altered Report on Oil Drilling Ban

by SteveK @ Wednesday, November 10th, 2010. Tags: , , , ,
Filed under Economics, Environment, Government

So much for honesty and transparency (of course it was never so, especially when ObamaCare was rammed through after backdoor deals). Turns out the White House edited a report about the moratorium on offshore oil drilling to make it appear that scientists supported the idea of a six-month ban on new drilling. No doubt this [...]

As Usual, Daily Kos Blames Democratic Loses on Racism

by SteveK @ Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010. Tags: , , , , , ,
Filed under Culture, Economics, Government, Healthcare, Media

Daily Kos blames Democratic losses on their old standby - racism. These people cannot possibly believe that someone could have a principled opposition to their agenda. No, it’s much easier to blame it all on racism (they have to adhere to their narratives after all). This view is consistent with the president, who insults Americans [...]

Zombie Ideology – Ideas, Old and Dead, are Still Walking Around

by SteveK @ Monday, October 18th, 2010. Tags: , , , , ,
Filed under Culture, Economics, Education, Government, History

An interesting comparison. Found HERE and written by Bruce S. Thornton:
Explaining the continued death-grip of progressive ideology on significant numbers of people despite its manifest intellectual exhaustion, incoherence, and senility compels one to rely on analogies. The notion of political religions, a time-honored way of explaining political doctrines like communism, Nazism, and fascism, is still [...]

New Study Confirms Heavy Alcohol Consumption in Bars Contributes to Fights

by SteveK @ Wednesday, October 13th, 2010. Tags: , ,
Filed under Culture, Economics, Government

Who could have guessed? The National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism has just spent five years and $918,856 of taxpayer money to study “Alcohol and Bar Violence.” What did the taxpayers get for nearly a cool mil?
The stunning findings determined “that bar fights tend to occur in venues that are relatively dark, dirty, noisy, [...]

ObamaCare “Re-Education” In Works

by SteveK @ Wednesday, September 15th, 2010. Tags: , , , , , ,
Filed under Economics, Education, Government, Healthcare

It seems the more time that passes with Obamacare, the worse the poll numbers for the president and Democrats in general. People are coming to the realization that their medical care is about to become more restrictive, of a lower quality, and end up costing more in the end.
The infamous cost curve of Obamacare, which [...]

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