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How Much Good Could Labor Union Leaders Do If They Cared?

Jimmie | April 22, 2011 | Comments (0)

It is an article of faith on the left that if we simply jacked taxes up on some random number of faceless and nameless rich people, we could magically turn that money into great-paying jobs for other people who aren’t rich. I’ve never been clear on the details of the plan, mostly because progressives always [...]

Why is Michael Moore a Socialist? It Rhymes with “Wreconimic Lupidity”

Jimmie | March 3, 2011 | Comments (2)

Someone decided it would be a good idea to sit the Baron Harkonnen-ish Michael Moore in front of a camera and capture his gaseous emanations for posterity. The result was a cloud of stale socialism and self-righteous stank that Doug Powers, Bryan Preston, and Jonah Goldberg all treated the same way you’d treat the air [...]

The State of the Union After “The State of the Union” is Unimpressed

Jimmie | January 28, 2010 | Comments (1)

As promised, I didn’t watch President Obama’s State of the Union address last night but I did read the speech today and spent a bit of my lunch hour seeing what others said about the speech. Without unpacking the whole speech, which would probably take five or six separate posts, I’ll share a couple basic impressions: 1) [...]

Next on ABC, A Very Special Obama Health Care Meeting

Jimmie | June 16, 2009 | Comments (2)

I’m fairly sure that when the founders wrote freedom of the press into the First Amendment, they weren’t figuring that the press would take that to mean they were free to become a wholly co-opted propaganda wing of the government. I posted the details of the story over at NTC News, but here’s the quick [...]

You Can Only Seize So Much Wealth

Jimmie | May 11, 2009 | Comments (0)

President Obama’s bro-shake buddy is up to more deviltry. A fresh round of expropriations in Venezuela has raised fears that the Opec producer’s already declining oil output could sink to its lowest level in the past 20 years. Troops were mobilised over the weekend to assist Venezuela’s state-owned oil company, PDVSA, in seizing the assets [...]

This is Why Republicans Can’t Win Elections These Days

Jimmie | February 16, 2009 | Comments (6)

It couldn’t last. I knew that the pleasant Friday dream of Lindsay Graham doing battle with Barbara Boxer on the Senate floor – a righteous warrior in the defense of economic liberty – had to end. I just expected it to last longer than two weeks. Sunday, it was the same ol’ Moderate Lickspittle Lindsay [...]

Where is the Small Business Town Hall Meeting?

Jimmie | February 10, 2009 | Comments (1)

After I finished this post, a couple questions occurred to me: 1) Has President Obama ever met with business owners to find out what they need (or don’t need) from the government to help them create jobs? 2) Can you name any part of the stimulus bill that was specifically requested by small business owners? [...]

He’s the One They Call Dr. Feelgood.

Jimmie | January 6, 2009 | Comments (1)

*sigh* President-elect Barack Obama has offered the job of surgeon general to Dr. Sanjay Gupta, the neurosurgeon and correspondent for CNN and CBS, according to two sources with knowledge of the situation. Well, at least the guy knows something about medicine, which is more than anyone can say about the guy whom the President-elect wants [...]