Two Islamists in the U.K. drove their BMW 3 series onto a sidewalk and hit an off duty, out of uniform soldier. Then they beheaded him and dropped his body in the street while shouting “Allahu Akbar.” To top it off, the police took 20 minutes to respond.
Think any of this will get serious coverage [...]
There are interesting rumblings in today’s Philadelphia Inquirer. You might almost think the left was getting ready to admit there’s a problem….naaah. That’s not going to happen.
States were $1.38 trillion short of having enough to pay their public-employee retirement bills in 2010, the last year for which totals are available for all 50 states, according [...]
DHS has published a video describing what people can do in an active shooter situation. It deserves much ridicule, which it is already receiving.
I’d like to point out one detail that is particularly worthy of contempt. If you are not able to escape or successfully hide, the narrator suggests you should consider using objects to [...]
The left has been arguing for years that the Bush tax cuts went mostly to the wealthy and that the Obama deficits have been caused not by over-spending but by the Bush tax cuts. Those of us who pointed to the actual numbers indicating otherwise were (at best) ignored but usually attacked.
Well we have now [...]
Apparently the Delaware taxpayers are getting hosed because of a deal the state signed with Fisker. That would be the same Fisker the US taxpayers are getting hosed for.
This statement from the governor’s office really ticked me off:
“It has not worked out the way he had envisioned,” [Delaware Gov.] Markell spokeswoman Cathy Rossi acknowledged Monday [...]
A few random pieces of sarcasm in response to calls for gun control after yesterday’s murder spree:
Thank goodness no one at the school had a gun. They might have hurt someone with it.
We wouldn’t want anyone there with a gun when the shooting starts. It’s better to wait for the police to bring their guns.
The [...]
Yesterday’s mass shooting at a Connecticut kindergarten hit awfully close to home. Mrs. Manifesto and I are beginning to look at kindergartens for Little Girl Manifesto. Plus we have friends in Connecticut, having gone to school in New York.
Already the predictable and vague calls for more gun control are beginning. Funny [...]
Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit frequently calls on conservatives to “punch back twice as hard.” He has also embraced the idea of raising certain taxes, specifically ones that will disproportionately hit blue states (such as reducing the deductibility of state income taxes).
Along those lines, I have taken a few of the features and taxes from Obamacare [...]
The top 100 U.S. university endowments have a total value of $310 billion and the top 100 U.S. foundations have assets totaling $244 billion. I am outraged that they exploit tax loopholes and pay no taxes. It’s time for them to pay their fair share. Fix the fiscal cliff - tax the rich!
So, Obama has been reelected. It is going to be a tough few years. Here is what to expect:
Slow economic growth
Sustained high unemployment
Reduced opportunities for the lower middle class
Reduced opportunities for the poor
Upper middle-class people who are go-getters will be okay but upper middle class people used to the idea of just being a “good [...]
The Democrats have kicked off their convention in the otherwise lovely city of Charlotte, NC to defend a failed presidency and try to convince people that more progressive policies are just what we need.
In related news:
The national debt has hit $16 trillion.
A federal judge has ordered tax payers to fund an inmate’s sex change operation.
A [...]
There is an interesting post at Zero Hedge arguing that the statutory tax rate on the middle class in high tax states (read: blue states) is 75%. This might be slightly high but I think it’s basically accurate.
Above a rather modest $34,600 in taxable income and up to around $106,000, the [statutory] middle class tax [...]
So, George Zimmerman has been charged with second degree murder in the death of Trayvon Martin. Unless the prosecutor has some additional information that hasn’t been released to the public (like the ballistics analysis), it seems to me the prosecutor has overcharged Zimmerman.
Here is how Florida defines second degree murder. § 782.04(2) reads:
The unlawful killing [...]
Regardless of how the Supreme Court rules on ObamaCare, the debate has highlighted some of the worst characteristics of Progressives, particularly their arrogant, dismissive, and disrespectful attitudes.
For two years conservatives have been arguing that the individual mandate is unconstitutional. And for two years the left has derided us as a bunch of lunatics.
Conservatives have been [...]
Homicide has dropped of the list of the top causes of death in the U.S. at the very time that gun ownership is expanding. Want some antacid on the side, guys?
If higher tax rates are the answer to our debt crisis, why is Europe in such serious trouble?
While I have a certain amount of sympathy for people who get tear gassed (I know from personal experience what it’s like), I can’t help but note a certain irony.
These are not libertarians demanding to be left alone. These are people demanding bigger, stronger government. They failed to understand the longstanding conservative warning that “a [...]
During the fight over the debt ceiling, I kept hearing from the left that the rich need to pay their fair share. Setting aside the fact that the top 5% earn 35% of income but pay 60% of taxes, and the fact that higher tax rates on the wealthy produce less tax revenue, I expect [...]
As I have mentioned many times, I am not a fan of political parties. I am more sympathetic to the Republican Party because it sometimes does the right thing on taxes, spending, regulation and freedom, in contrast to the Democrats who invariably get it wrong. But I generally view political parties as unhelpful, if unavoidable.
Given [...]
Apparently, before he was sent to a watery grave, Osama bin Laden complained that Al Qaeda had an image problem: it didn’t appear religious enough. So, Bin Laden proposed renaming Al Qaeda to “Restoration of the Caliphate Group.”
This is buried in the middle of an AP piece but it is, I think, quite significant. The [...]