Recent Posts
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Who Dropped the Dime on Cain?
In a case of an untimely death, the first thing the cops do when they arrive at the home of the deceased is to try to determine whether the death was the result of a self-inflicted wound and, if it wasn’t, whether a member of the family did it. Statistics show that these are good places to start looking. If the recent events surrounding sexual-harassment allegations against Herman Cain sink his campaign, the same postmortem may be appropriate.
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An Open Letter to the House GOP
As someone who understands the pressures and difficulties you have been going through, I want to say, "Congratulations." You won, and so did the country.
Absent some major miscalculations, within the next few days there will be official acknowledgement of what has already happened.
At the beginning of the debt-ceiling debate, a realistic, optimistic outcome essentially would have been this: The Republicans would take the initiative and put their plan before the American people. The debt-ceiling increase would be accompanied by corresponding spending cuts. There would be no new taxes. You would drive a hard bargain in the face of unrelenting presidential and Democratic demagoguery — some of it on national television — drawing the attention and focus of the American people to the truth about our country's fiscal and economic situation. Sure, people would initially ask, "Why are the Republicans now willing to take this thing to the wire when a debt-limit increase has usually been pro forma?" But at the end of the day, more Americans than ever before would understand what is going to happen to us as a country if we continue our current path. -
The Fairness Argument
The average person must wonder what the Democrats must be thinking. Even the most casual observer knows that U.S. debt projections foretell disaster. With spending at 24% of our economy, a modern record, how can Democrats expect to avoid substantial spending cuts? The answer, of course, is that they expect that, when push comes to shove, they can raise the taxes necessary to cover the problem – specifically, that they can tax the people who don’t vote for them to pay for the programs that primarily benefit those who do. Even when the taxes inevitably dip into middle-class pockets, it will be easier to tax than to cut spending. And the rhetoric will still be about taxing the rich and made easier with a little help of the media.
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The “Chosen One”
Notice how the news lately has been all about courage? Well, maybe they don't use that word, but isn't that what they're talking about?
LeBron James choked again in the fourth quarter Sunday night in what would turn out to be the final game of the NBA Finals, and is getting hammered for the Miami Heat's loss of the NBA championship to the Dallas Mavericks. The sports psychologists, both professional and arm chair are having a field day. How could this happen to the greatest player in the game today? During the regular season he's amazing. He sometimes seems to be toying with the mere mortals he's matched against. He romps and dunks and makes shots from ridiculous distances from impossible angles. He has "The Chosen One" tattooed on his chest. Really. -
Base Appeal
Not to put too fine a point on it, but... The survival of any democracy depends on character of its people. This fact is especially troublesome when your own president is betting on the stupidity and cravenness of the people he is supposed to be leading. Barack Obama’s speech Wednesday was the most cynical and blatantly dishonest political hogwash that most of us have ever heard.
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