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Posts Tagged ‘Taxes’


Republican Lawmakers on Twitter

If you were watching Twitter on Friday you saw President Obama try to muster pressure on Republican legislators to compromise their principles. @BarackObama tweeted for hours, urging people to contact their legislators, one state at a time, losing tens of thousands of followers in the process. At the end of it, a tweet pointed to [...]

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Balance the Budget: Now is the Time

A new video from Representative Cathy McMorris Rogers (R-WA,) Co-Chair of the Republican New Media Caucus. Since President Obama has been claiming the mantle of Reagan, it’s particularly appropriate to look at what President Reagan actually said when he spoke to the nation about a Balanced Budget Amendment.

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Brave Sir Obama

It’s been reported that President Obama walked out of budget negotiations today. All I could think of was “Brave Sir Robin” from “Monty Python and the Holy Grail.” So herewith my small alteration:   Bravely bold Sir Obama Rode forth to spend a lot. He was not afraid to lie, Oh brave Sir Obama. He [...]

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No, Mister President, After You- I Insist!

The current US budget troubles have led to an impasse that is likely to lead us to another round of brinkmanship like what we saw with the fiscal year 2011 budget. Because it was a last minute compromise, some things slipped through the cracks from lack of time. Other things were dropped because there was no way [...]

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Gainesville FL Tries to Rob a Church

The Dove World Outreach Center, the church that had plans to burn a Koran on 9/11, is a cult that has in the past linked itself to Westboro Baptist Church, although Westboro said nasty things about Dove World after Pastor Terry Jones decided not to burn a Koran after all.  The latest wrinkle in the [...]

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How Obama Got His Groove Back

President Obama just finished his Labor Day speech in Milwaukee. I haven’t found any transcripts yet, and I’m not part of the elite media that gets advance copies that are embargoed. But the content I saw on TV was no surprise. Thumbnail sketch: If you thought he was engaged in class warfare before, grab your [...]

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Tucker Carlson’s Retro-Cranial Inversion Paints a Tax Bullseye on Bloggers

The Daily Caller has posted a story that accuses half of the conservative blogosphere of taking money from partisan sources for blogging. It’s a particularly bad time to imply that bloggers have lots of money as Philadelphia has decided that bloggers in that city must pay a $300 tax. Instead of defending the freedom of [...]

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