Genesis of the "NO" Logo
The “O” within the circle represents collectivism in its various forms. The “N” represents an emphatic repudiation of collectivism. The red, white and blue circles encompassing the “NO” are emblematic of our Republic. It is the responsibility of the individuals in an engaged and enlightened republic to limit the influence of the government, especially one that attempts to wield power outside the boundaries delineated by the Constitution.
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
A Glimpse of History
Henry Morgenthau was a close friend of Franklin Roosevelt,and FDR appointed Morgenthau as Secretary of the Treasury in 1933. By 1939, the New Deal was into its seventh year, and the Great Depression continued.
On May 9, 1939, Morgenthau met with the leaders of the House Ways and Means Committee in a private meeting of Democrat leaders. Morgenthau included a transcript of the meeting in his “diary,” which was a hodgepodge of documents, memoranda, and diary entries that became thousands of pages by the time Morgenthau left office in 1945.
Morgenthau’s diary is on microfilm at the Franklin Roosevelt Presidential Library in Hyde Park, New York. On microfilm roll #50 of the Morgenthau Diary, readers will find the transcript of Morgenthau’s now-famous quote, on frame #41 from the May 9th meeting:
“Now, gentlemen, we have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work.”
The Immigration Policy of Absurdistan
The Debt: Catastrophic Urgency, Little Concern
Monday, June 27, 2011
What a Real Victory in 2012 Would Look Like
The Progressive Income Tax
Sunday, June 26, 2011
The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism
Saturday, June 25, 2011
The Truth about Tax Cuts
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
2011 Budget Chart Book
Monday, June 20, 2011
The Medical Marketplace, Free and Unfree
Liberty and the Power of Ideas
Insights of the Day
Vice President for Legal Affairs for the Cato Institute
Source: Founders Intended Only Limited Powers, USA Today, Friday, July 21, 1995.
-- Irwin Schiff (libertarian)
Sunday, June 19, 2011
Father's Day and the Importance of Marriage
Economic Smackdown: Paul Ryan vs. Barack Obama
Thursday, June 16, 2011
How the Experts are Wrecking Healthcare
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Roosevelt Redux: How Obama is Creating a Depression of His Own
Sunday, June 12, 2011
Not Entitled - Ending Medicare does not mean abandoning the Elderly
Saturday, June 11, 2011
Teacher Arrested
'Al-Gebra is a problem for us', the Attorney General said. 'They derive solutions by means and extremes, and sometimes go off on tangents in search of absolute values.' They use secret code names like 'X' and 'Y' and refer to themselves as 'unknowns', but we have determined that they belong to a common denominator of the axis of medieval with coordinates in every country. As the Greek philanderer Isosceles used to say, 'There are 3 sides to every triangle'.
When asked to comment on the arrest, President Obama said, 'If G-d had wanted us to have better weapons of math instruction, he would have given us more fingers and toes.' White House aides told reporters they could not recall a more intelligent or profound statement by the President - It is believed that another Nobel Prize will follow.
Ronald Reagan - my personal favorite
"There are many well-meaning people today who work at placing an economic floor beneath all of us so that no one shall exist below a certain level or standard of living, and certainly we don't quarrel with this. But look more closely and
you may find that all too often these well-meaning people are building a ceiling above which no one shall be permitted to climb and between the two are pressing us all into conformity, into a mold of standardized mediocrity."
-- Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) 40th US President
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Thoughts for the Day
-- Paul Volcker former Federal Reserve chairman
Alexis de Tocqueville [Alexis Charles Henri Maurice Clerel, le Comte de Tocqueville] (1805-1859) French historian