Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I was speaking with my sister this morning and wondered if I was correct that there is something unique about poverty in America. It started with my stating, apropos I don’t remember what, that smaller government is safer government — the mere fact that it is small limits the amount
Continue readingPaul Krugman is a Nobel Prize winning economist. He’s also remarkably ignorant (or stupid or, maybe, both). Only someone lacking in brains and understanding would think that the U.S. could get out of its debt problem, not by printing paper money, but by minting a platinum coin and then denominating
Continue readingThe New York Times has a long article about Edward Conard, a former Bains partner, who makes the case — a compelling one, I believe — that in America, the wealthy aren’t parasites, they’re economically useful. In a stagnant, agrarian class society, the wealthy simply live at the top, feeding
Continue readingThe way this attack ad against rising star Doug Hoffman (in NY’s 23rd district) is framed, it’s clear that Hoffman’s sin is being wealthy: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15L_TaolOqg[/youtube] I think that’s a marvelous standard by which to disqualify people from political office, at least this year. (And we know from what happens in
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