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In Progressive America, Your Kids Aren’t Your Own Either.

Jimmie | September 28, 2009 | Comments (1)

This morning, at the AIP blog, I wrote about how the Democrats don’t really believe your money belongs to you. It’s all grist for their mill and they’ll let you keep what they think you should keep and not a penny more. That philosophy doesn’t stop at the money you earn, though. Your children aren’t [...]

AIP Blogging: Which Promise is the Real One?

Jimmie | September 14, 2009 | Comments (0)

My latest post at the AIP blog asks which presidential promise we should believe: the one that says “nobody” will take our health insurance plan from us or the one that says the government won’t force us to change. Watching the President flip from one promise to the other, depending on what sort of audience [...]

The Not-Ready-For-Opening-Day Democrats

Jimmie | September 7, 2009 | Comments (0)

My latest post at the AIP blog looks at the manifold troubles of the Democratic majority in Congress and how they don’t quite seem to be ready for the new session to start. If I can draw a football analogy (and I can, since it’s my blog!), the Democrats are about the enter the regular [...]

Weekend AIP Blogging Links

Jimmie | August 29, 2009 | Comments (0)

I need to get you all caught up on my latest work over at the AIP blog. My Friday post dealt with the stimulus bill and the question of whether or not it’s helped. The evidence at this point is that’s it’s actually done us more harm than good, to the point where we have [...]

Calling it Grassroots Doesn’t Make it Grassroots

Jimmie | August 26, 2009 | Comments (0)

My post at AIP today deals with another media misperception about grassroots movements, namely that they’re grassroots simply because the people organizing them say so. The Democrats are launching a big health careapalooza national tour with a big push from the Democratic National Committee and the biggest health care lobbying group in the country and, [...]

He’s Back on the Trail Because it’s What He Does Best

Jimmie | August 14, 2009 | Comments (0)

I’ll give President Obama credit for one thing: he knows where his strengths lie. The Democratic health care plan is dropping like a lead weight on Jupiter. Its most visible supporters are Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, which is like having John Merrick be the most visible supporter of Oil of Olay. Obviously, the President [...]

The Presidential Post Office Fumble

Jimmie | August 12, 2009 | Comments (0)

My post today at AIP tackles the President’s attempt to sell us on Obamacare by invoking the Post Office. Before you start laughing too hard, he was using the USPS as an example of how the public sector doesn’t compete well against the private sector. I’m really not sure how he he thought his analogy [...]

Sit ACLU, Sit. Good Dog.

Jimmie | August 10, 2009 | Comments (0)

Remember when the ACLU considered its job to be skeptical of the intentions of government? You really don’t have to remember much farther back than the end of last year. But under our new President, it didn’t take very long for the ACLU to roll over and show its belly. That’s the subject of my [...]