The Laffer Curve in Britain

UK Telegraph: 50p Tax Rate ‘Failing to Boost Revenues’ The Treasury received £10.35 billion in income tax payments from those paying by self-assessment last month, a drop of £509 million compared with January 2011. Most other taxes produced higher revenues over the same period. Senior sources said that the first official figures indicated that there [...]

Santorum’s Perceptional Problems

Washington Post: Santorum: Birth Control ‘Harmful to Women’ This is how, in part, he lost Pennsylvania — by appearing extreme and schoolmarmish, too far to the right of average voters in a purple state. If he is the nominee in 2012, he might get some blue-collar fellows, but what about those women in Ohio, Pennsylvania, [...]

Deconstructing Media Matters

The Daily Caller: Inside Media Matters: Sources, memos reveal erratic behavior, close coordination with White House and news organizations\ Collusion between the Soros-funding Media Matters for America and the White House, not to mention biased “journalists” the world over.  Drug use and mental health problems, combined with paranoia and bodyguards illegally carrying guns in D.C. [...]

More DOJ Corruption, Bribery

The Daily Caller: Bribery, Compromised Officials Leave Indicted Suspects Free From Prosecution Under Holder’s DOJ A U.S. Justice Department source has told The Daily Caller that at least two DOJ prosecutors accepted cash bribes from allegedly corrupt finance executives who were indicted under court seal within the past 13 months, but never arrested or prosecuted. [...]

More Unintended Consequences

CBSLosAngeles: Woman Claims Neighbor’s Energy-Efficient Windows Are Melting Her Toyota Prius I love that headline. Energy-efficient windows melting a Prius — it just doesn’t get any better than that. In the past, I’ve written about how compact fluorescent light bulbs present more of a danger to the very environment they are intended to protect due [...]

A Message From Gabby

I saw this video when, in the process of putting in a few A.R. Daily Reminders, I was looking for footage of Barack Obama dressing down the Supreme Court at the State of the Union Address a few years back. I don’t care what side of the political spectrum you find yourself on, or how [...]

A Mickey Mouse President

Buzzfeed: 13 Photos of Barack Obama at Disney That Will Probably Turn Up in Attack Ads I can’t show you the photos.  They’re all copyrighted, I KNOW that they are all copyrighted, and it’s just not worth the trouble.  However, I found the collection to be almost surreal, if not Goofy (<— see what I [...]

Jason vs. The Judge

The Political Operatives: My Conversation with Judge Andrew Napolitano On myriad occasions, I have argued that the peril of non-interventionism is that at some point it leads to isolationism, and that the peril of isolationism is that at some point it can lead to idealism and ignorance. I’ll be the first to stand up and [...]

Hey Prez … Put Up or Shut Up

IBD: Keystone Pipeline XL And Jobs — Put Up or Shut Up A great piece by the folks at IBD, showing the president’s passion for political expediency and aversion to true economic and job growth.  An excerpt: The irony was mind-boggling when President Obama addressed a group of business leaders at the White House last [...]

Pelosi’s Prognostications

Politico: Nancy Pelosi: GOP Knows Mitt Romney Can’t Win The House’s top Democrat repeatedly jabbed at the former Massachusetts governor during an hour-long interview hosted by POLITICO and taunted the GOP for a slate of presidential contenders that she said was “not exactly what you would call the first string of the Republican Party.” “If [...]

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