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Fun With Bad Polls (Or, Why Won’t Those Wicked Republicans Compromise?)

Jimmie | April 7, 2011 | Comments (2)

Ezra Klein, wunderkind of the Washington Post, believes he has the goods on Republicans. His “gotcha” comes in the form of a recent NBC/Wall Street Journal poll on the matter of which party should compromise in order to avoid a government shutdown and all its attendant apocalyptic events. I’ll not recreate Klein’s argument, but I’ll [...]

Don’t Free Plaxico Burress

Jimmie | December 4, 2008 | Comments (2)

It’s a bad idea to make Plaxico Burress the newest poster child for Second Amendment rights. Dave Kopel gives it a noble try in today’s Wall Street Journal, but I think he misses something important. His main point, that the plain language of the 2nd Amendment and the recent SCOTUS Heller decision make New York [...]

Peggy Noonan’s Confused Acquiescence

Jimmie | October 31, 2008 | Comments (0)

It has bugged me watching so many otherwise brilliant people contort their brains into pretzels in order to justify why they’re throwing Sarah Palin out of the Cool Kids’ Club. Peggy Noonan, Ken Adelman, Francis Fukayama, David Brooks, and others have decided to kick their old conservative principles to the curb and embrace the new [...]

Obama Chucks Dissenting Voices off His Campaign Airplane

Jimmie | October 31, 2008 | Comments (0)

While Kimberly Strassel appears in the Wall Street Journal to give Republicans sage advice on how to further build the “Big Tent” for which it’s known, the Obama campaign is giving media outlets the bum’s rush. It has thrown reporters from the Washington Times, New York Sun Post, and Dallas Morning News off the campaign [...]

Heritage Foundation Asks Obama to Pull His Dishonest Ad

Jimmie | October 28, 2008 | Comments (1)

I recently saw a Barack Obama ad called “Try This” about his so-called plan that quoted an analyst from the conservative Heritage Foundation. It seemed pretty incredible to me that anyone at Heritage would endorse any economic plan Barack Obama might propose. They’re a bit too smart to be suckered like that. At it turns [...]

An Obama Adminstration Will Be Quite Taxing Indeed

Jimmie | October 25, 2008 | Comments (10)

If you’re at all interested in the tax proposals of both candidates, the Wall Street Journal has the best brief summary here. The shorter version is that if you have any ambition toward making six figures during a Barack Obama administration, you’re going to need to be very, very careful lest you trigger a blizzard [...]

Chris Dodd’s Sanctimony Show

Jimmie | October 16, 2008 | Comments (1)

Well, if John McCain won’t take a 2×4 to the Democrats over the mortgage mess, the Wall Street Journal will: The late Senator Russell Long used to say that the core truth of tax policy was “Don’t tax you, don’t tax me, tax the fellow behind the tree.” Substitute political blame for the financial meltdown [...]

Barack Obama’s “Tax Cut” Plan is Deceitful

Jimmie | October 13, 2008 | Comments (4)

I’ve seen about a bazillion Barack Obama commercials that have claimed that he will cut taxes for either 95 percent of “families” or “American workers”. Not a single time have I heard him, his campaign, or any of his commercials say that he’ll cut taxes on 95 percent of American taxpayers. That’s because his plan [...]