Targeting the Wannabe "Rich"

With the proposed new income, payroll and health care tax rates, along with increased state and local taxes, many business owners fear that 60% to 70% of their income will go to the government. That does not seem a good way to persuade small businesses to hire more workers in hopes of greater rewards.

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A voice of sanity in the US senate. Keep up the good work Dr. Coburn.

Voting Against Government-Run Healthcare:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/12/24/voting_against_government-run_health_care_99671.html

Health care as a "right" is not in the US Constitution

The "living Constitution" that Democrats and their court appointees have given us may be the death of our freedoms. Their constitution adapts to the times and serves the whims of the elitists. The Constitution is supposed to limit government powers. It does not allow government to do anything it feels like doing.

http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=516140

Ayn Rand is one of my favorite authors. She was born in Russia and lived there during the time of the Bolshevik revolution. She lived during the reign of Lenin and experienced the horrors of the "collective" state. Most of her writings reflect her loathing of collectivism(or statism or whatever label you choose). One of my favorite books written by her, and one that is hard to come by, is entitled "Capitalism, The Unknown Ideal". In the appendix of that book, she has a section entitled "Man's Rights". In this section she describes the dominant ethics of mankind's history as variants of the collective doctrine, which subordinated the individual to some higher authority. These included the "Divine Right of Kings", the theocracy of Egypt, the unlimited majority rule of Athens, the welfare state run by the Emperors of Rome, the Inquisition of the late Middle Ages, the absolute monarchy of France, the gas chambers of Nazi Germany and the gulags of the Soviet Union. She contends that the United States was the first moral society in history in that all previous systems had regarded man as a sacrificial means to the ends of others, and society as an end in itself. The US Constitution regarded man as an end in himself, and society as a means to the peaceful, orderly, voluntary co-existence of individuals. The US held that man's life is his by right and that the only moral purpose of a government is the protection of individual rights. The government's function in the US was changed from the role of ruler to the role of servant. The government was set to protect man from criminals - and the Constitution was written to PROTECT MAN FROM THE GOVERNMENT. The Bill of Rights was directed against the government as an explicit declaration that individual rights supersede any public or social power. The progressive vision of a "living" constitution subverts this original intent of the Founding Fathers.

Merry Christmas from the Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats

According to the latest news, Harry Reid has the 60 votes needed to pass Obamacare. While the legislation itself is not available for reading, to my knowledge, the Congressional Budget Office did report on it December 19. I parse that CBO report here so we know what is about to happen to us.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/12/merry_christmas_from_harry.html

The Rising Tide of Red Ink

Instead of being worried about an entirely hypothetical rise in sea levels, it’s time to deal with the very real, ever-rising tide of red ink. As economic historian Niall Ferguson warned recently in Newsweek, “Unless entitlements are cut or taxes are raised, there will never be another balanced budget.”

Ferguson has run the numbers, and found that the net present value of the unfunded liabilities of Social Security and Medicare add up to more than $100 trillion. Those are promises being made in the name of the people of the United States, but there’s no way to keep those promises unless we borrow more.

http://townhall.com/Common/PrintPage.aspx?g=fdbc9c85-8ae8-4184-8c02-99cd2eea2333&t=c

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$2,000,000,000,000 more in Debt?

I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our constitution. I would be willing to depend on that alone for the reduction of the administration of our government to the genuine principles of its constitution; I mean an additional article, taking from the federal government the power of borrowing.
-Thomas Jefferson, 1798

The problem is not that people are taxed too little; the problem is that government spends too much.

-Ronald Reagan

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/12/2000000000000_more_in_debt_you.html

http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=515428

Climategate further exposed

This was written by a former co-ordinating lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. He offers insight into the flaws behind the whole process resulting in the "scientific consensus" behind "global warming".

http://www.businessday.co.za/articles/Content.aspx?id=87726

Compromise is not always the "right" answer

The truth of the matter is that when it comes to the most fundamental questions about human society, culture, and government, the middle ground is not a sensible place to occupy. When it comes down to the fundamentals, things are either right or they are wrong; to suggest that they may be right for me and wrong for you is nonsense. Moral relativism comes into conflict with the Law of Non-Contradiction when operating at the level of fundamental values

http://townhall.com/columnists/KenConnor/2009/12/13/principle_vs_pragmatism

The Environmental Shakedown

Socialism having failed so spectacularly, the left was adrift until it struck upon a brilliant gambit: metamorphosis from red to green. The cultural elites went straight from the memorial service for socialism to the altar of the environment. The objective is the same: highly centralized power given to the best and the brightest, the new class of experts, managers and technocrats. This time, however, the alleged justification is not abolishing oppression and inequality but saving the planet. Read this great article by Charles Krauthammer

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/12/11/copenhagen_shakedown.html

George Orwell revisited: If you have ever read Orwell's Animal Farm or 1984, you will enjoy

this perspective. This is great insight into the Fabian Socialist Society.

http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/history/european/2397-the-60th-anniversary-of-orwells-1984

Thomas Jefferson revisited

Can't wait until Fall 2010
"When the representative body have lost the confidence of their constituents, when they have notoriously made sale of their most valuable rights, when they have assumed to themselves powers which the people never put into their hands, then indeed their continuing in office becomes dangerous to the State, and calls for an exercise of the power of dissolution."-- Thomas Jefferson
(1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President

Deception: Comparing Tiger Woods and Barack Obama

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/12/tiger_barrack_and_the_law_of_t.html

Liar, Liar: The world's not on fire

http://www.pjtv.com/v/2779

The mainstream media as "climate change" co-conspirators

The shameless denial with which major newspapers and networks have treated "Climategate" layers even more scandal on top of the original one: Mainstream media now co-conspirators with scientific hacks and big government.