Representative Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, chairman of the House budget committee, gave a forceful, highly regarded speech on Oct. 26, “Saving the American Idea: Rejecting Fear, Envy and the Politics of Division.” Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan, a former Reagan speechwriter, praised the speech in her weekly column (online Oct. 28, in print Oct. [...]
People deeply committed to belief in man-made global warming form a cult that has “all the trappings of religion,” according to an Oct. 24 column on Realclearpolitics.com by Michael Barone. He is a leading political scientist, Fox news commentator, and resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. He sees these similarities: Concept of original sin: [...]
Liberals like to say their Occupy Wall Street movement is just like the Tea Party. They wish. Peggy Noonan, a former speechwriter for President Reagan and now a columnist for the Wall Street Journal, addresses that claim in her Oct. 22 column (page A17, available only to WSJ subscribers): It is not the tea party. [...]
DON’T GET TEA-BAGGED! The Tea Party zombies are walking the streets of America. Grab your weapons and bash their rotten brains to bits! Destroy zombie Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann, Glenn Beck, the Koch Brothers, and many more! That's the promotion for what may be the most evil video game ever offered to the public. Titled "Tea Party Zombies Must Die," [...]
I’ve blogged before on this site using as a byline, a name that could identify me. I chose the name when opponents of the Tea Party were full of contempt—not yet hatred—for us because of our core principles of limited government, fiscal restraint, personal responsibility, and governing with virtue and accountability, which are antithetical to [...]
Jay Cost, a staff writer for the Weekly Standard, has written a well reasoned article that presents an interesting take on the demonization of the Tea Party by Obama and his followers. (See the earlier post here on Tea Party derangement syndrome.) Cost concludes that, in the end, the demonization will not work—it will not [...]
Peter Berkowitz, a senior fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution, wrote a perceptive op-ed in the Wall Street Journal about the Tea Party derangement syndrome that’s sweeping the left side of the political spectrum. Titled “The Debt Deal and the Progressive Crack-Up,” the essay examines “the implications of what the democratically negotiated [debt-limit] settlement revealed about [...]
The world of political commentary (at least that part of it not campaigning for Obama’s re-election) is abuzz with excitement over a trailblazing new book that shows vividly and convincingly what happened to cause the terrible financial crisis that’s gripped the country since 2008 and—most important—who’s responsible. The book, Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed, [...]
The sight of President Obama and General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt laughing at the lack of “shovel ready” jobs wasn’t the only outrage produced by the recent meeting of the President's Jobs and Competitiveness Council. The council's recommendations are also producing outrage. In a Boston Globe op-ed, “Whirling Economics,” former Republican Senator John Sununu (New Hampshire) [...]
When true believers in man-made global warming look into their crystal balls, they tell us that nothing but misfortune awaits. In an op-ed for the May 25 Forbes.com blog, James M. Taylor, senior fellow for environment policy at the Heartland Institute and managing editor of Environment & Climate News, wrote about several gloomy predictions that [...]
Those of us who believe that the government was mostly to blame for the 2008 financial crisis and its continuing effects have been reinforced by revelations from Peter J. Wallison, one of the 10 members of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission appointed by Congress to investigate the causes of the crisis and a fellow in [...]
The central issue in the battle of public employee unions versus the people of Wisconsin, and the many looming similar confrontations elsewhere, is about the wisdom of having public employee unions in the first place. I searched for a discussion of the issue not colored by the politics, partisanship, and personalities of the current strife [...]
