Instapundit » Blog Archive » WALTER OLSON: Rise Of An Imperial City, Cont’d. “Even as most of the country remains mired in seri…: "WALTER OLSON: Rise Of An Imperial City, Cont’d. “Even as most of the country remains mired in serious housing recession, the capital has bounced back smartly . . . . The rise has been so dramatic that for the first time in five years, the average asking rent in D.C. is higher than in New York City, according to CoStar and a new report of third-quarter activity by commercial real estate firm Cassidy Turley.” Plus this: “Even as veteran reporters elsewhere scrounge for work, talent and money continue to pour into Washington’s specialized news-gathering business, most particularly the sorts of newsletters that (for a subscription price in the thousands of dollars) will bring you fresh and fine-grained news of the doings of federal regulatory agencies in fields like energy, pharmaceuticals, securities and telecommunications.”"But don't worry. Those Tea Party types are just innumerate hicks. Ummm, hmmm... Read More......
Showing posts with label tea party. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tea party. Show all posts
Friday, December 10, 2010
Imperious
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Damn iPhones!
PALIN HAS HAD ENOUGH: Corrupt bastards.
Miller campaign claims KTVA reporters caught on tape discussing smear; Update: Palin calls Alaska media “corrupt bastards” - Hot Air: "Sarah Palin tweeted that the Alaska media are “corrupt bastards.” Well, she would know after the way they treated her during and after her VP run. The Daily Caller has more on the story. The Right Scoop has the video of Palin repeating it on Fox News:"
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Friday, October 8, 2010
Bill Whittle On The Tea Party
If you haven't figured it out yet, you will after this:
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Saturday, September 25, 2010
A Saturday Cleanser
Here we learn that even Herman Cain -- a serious contender for my 2012 presidential vote if we can't draft Thomas Sowell -- can be surprised.
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Monster For Tea
Roger L. Simon � Holocaust Denial: George Soros vs. the Tea Parties:And in a nutshell:"How does Soros feel about what he did as a teenager? Has it kept him up at night?Somebody else would have done it. Sound familiar? It’s just the kind of excuse you might use when devaluing the British pound. A psychoanalyst might call it “splitting,” taking a part of your personality and splitting it off, as if there were two disconnected parts of you — the monster and the good citizen. The good citizen provides a mask, a disguise for the monster to do his work.
Steve Kroft of 60 Minutes asked him that. Was it difficult? “Not at all,” Soros answered.
“No feeling of guilt?” asked Kroft. “No,” said Soros. “There was no sense that I shouldn’t be there. If I wasn’t doing it, somebody else would be taking it away anyhow. Whether I was there or not. So I had no sense of guilt.”
Am I calling Soros a disturbed person? In probability, yes. A man with two sides who is all the more dangerous for having both.
Starting in the 1980s, the good side went to work using his immense funds to help Eastern European countries transition out of the Soviet Union. This culminated in the 1990s with the establishment of the Open Society Institute.
But here in the United States, the same young man who collaborated with the Nazis has trouble as a grown man making moral distinctions or choosing sensible allies. He funded MoveOn.org, whose astonishing conflation of Bush and Hitler was both morally shameful and psychologically sick. (What an insult that was to the memory of the Holocaust.)
Now — and this is the proximate cause of my wanting to write about him in the first place — Soros is going after the tea party movement. "
So now we have a former (allegedly guilt-free) collaborator with Hitler helping fund an attack on the tea parties. An ex-Ku Kluxer in the Senate was bad enough, but this is crazy, if you take even three baby steps backward to think about it.Unbelievable. Read More......
Sunday, August 29, 2010
$5 for 5 Challenge! (Bumped)
$5 for 5 Challenge
Game On! Are You Up for the Challenge?
Grassroots efforts over the last year and a half have made huge strides in both reshaping party politics and promoting candidates who favor principle over party.
The results of the primaries on August 10th proved that all the hard work and sacrifice of grassroots membership and their chosen candidates paid off by moving the ball to the 50 yard line.
From this position it's clear that the battle for the goal line will be even tougher. The opposition has the advantage—in many races—of incumbency and a deeper bench strengthened by substantially larger resources.
Game tactics over the next two months are crucial to shaping the outcome of the November elections and beyond.
What will it take to level the playing field?
Do some research, find 5 candidates who's values and principles are consistent with yours.
Donate $5.00 to the 5 candidates over each of the next 5 weeks. Tell your friends and family to do the same. Each $5.00 will move the ball 5 yards closer to the goal. If you are strapped for cash then donate 5 hours to the candidate of your choice over the next two months.
Don't wake up on November 3rd and ask yourself “I should have done more”? If everyone does their part the ball can be brought over the goal line in November. And remember it's not just the top races that need your help consider the local down-ticket candidates as well.
Remember $5 for 5.... We can do this!
Saturday, August 28, 2010
828
Power Line - Back at the Lincoln Memorial, 47 years on: "47 years to the day after participating in the great civil rights march on Washington, I returned to the same space for Glenn Beck's 'Restoring Honor' rally. In 1963, a crowd of roughly 200,000 filled the 'reflecting pool' area below the Lincoln Memorial. Today's crowd packed that area as well as adjacent areas on all three sides. In fact, the throng extended most of the way to the Washington Monument, where the 1963 march began. To me, it looked like there were at least three times as many people at this rally.I caught most of the last two thirds or so on CSPAN. This was impressively done right down to the music.
The crowd was extraordinarily courteous and polite. I saw virtually no signs except on the way the gathering. Once at the grounds of the rally, I saw only American flags, a few 'Don't Tread on Me' flags, and one Israeli flag."
Too bad only a couple of dozen showed up. And how violent and ugly and hateful it got -- just like
And please donate to the Special Operations Warrior Foundation. I did. Read More......
Monday, August 16, 2010
WHAT?
RealClearMarkets - The Hidden Truth About the Bush Tax Increases: "During the eight years of the Clinton Administration the Federal government collected a total of $5.66 trillion dollars in individual income taxes. During the eight years of the Bush Administration the Federal government collected approximately $7.45 trillion dollars in individual income taxes. The rich - that is, the top 1% of taxpayers - not only forked over a trillion dollars more to Uncle Sam under Bush than under Clinton, their share of the income tax burden increased from 33% to 38%.That's right. You've been brainwashed to within an inch of remembering to even breathe. This is a definite RTWT. Beyond RTWT in fact for those who need to brush up on their math skills.
But wait, there's more.
During the eight years of the Clinton Administration the rich paid income taxes at a blended rate of 20.6%. During the eight years of the Bush Administration the rich paid income taxes at a blended tax rate of 21.3%."
The real problem is the same as under Reagan -- even though revenues went up, spending went up even faster.
SPENDING. IS. OUT. OF. CONTROL.
The feedback loop is broken and now we're broke. Read More......
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Friday, February 19, 2010
Can You Say "President Rubio"?
Friday, February 5, 2010
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
The Miracle Truck
Dear GOP—
PLEASE Let Scott Brown Give the response next week to Obama’s State of the Union Address…
…In his truck. Read More......
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Friday, January 8, 2010
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Friday, September 18, 2009
How The Marches Will End
Will somebody please explain to me how it is that placing a ballistic missile defense system in Poland has any hope of stopping a Russian ICBM attack against the continental U.S.? Putin is ROFL.
And how out of all of our options outside of Russia itself (let me hold my breath) an American President would consider placing a ballistic missile defense against Iran for the American homeland anywhere other than Poland or the Czech Republic?
We have such an epic educational fail in this country that people apparently can't even pick up a globe and trace an ICBM trajectory a line on it.
The only good news is that we're soon going to be able to save money out of our precious family budgets by no longer funding marches on Washington. Because since stupidity is self correcting there won't be a Washington left to march on.
Unless the Green Revolution succeeds. Which seems closer to happening than I dared hope. It's very interesting about the timing of Iran acquiring nukes and the people throwing caution to the wind -- “Tanks, rape and torture have no effect anymore”. Moussavi certainly knows how close his fellow nut-jobs really are to the bomb. He started them down the path after all.
Pray for the success of the Green Revolution. (No, not the Van Jones one.)
And pray for America as well.
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
The Country's Lapels
For those of you who haven't taken the time to step back and look at the big picture of Barack OChavez, George Will has created a concise gem to marvel at:
On the 233rd day of his presidency, Barack Obama grabbed the country's lapels for the 263rd time—that was, as of last Wednesday, the count of his speeches, press conferences, town halls, interviews, and other public remarks. His speech to Congress was the 122nd time he had publicly discussed health care. Just 14 hours would pass before the 123rd, on Thursday morning. His incessant talking cannot combat what it has caused: An increasing number of Americans do not believe that he believes what he says.Just re-read this a few times and you'll be truly depressed about the comprehension and analytical skills of your fellow citizens.
He says America's health-care system is going to wrack and ruin and requires root-and-branch reform—but that if you like your health care (as a large majority of Americans do), nothing will change for you. His slippery new formulation is that nothing in his plan will "require" anyone to change coverage. He used to say, "If you like your health-care plan, you'll be able to keep your health-care plan, period." He had to stop saying that because various disinterested analysts agree that his plan will give many employers incentives to stop providing coverage for employees.
He deplores "scare tactics" but says that unless he gets his way, people will die. He praises temperate discourse but says many of his opponents are liars. He says Medicare is an exemplary program that validates government's prowess at running health systems. But he also says Medicare is unsustainable and going broke, and that he will pay for much of his reforms by eliminating the hundreds of billions of dollars of waste and fraud in this paragon of a program, and in Medicaid. He says Congress will cut Medicare (it will not) by $500 billion—without affecting benefits.
He says the nation's economic health depends on controlling health-care costs. Yet so important is the trial bar in financing the Democratic Party, he says not a syllable in significant and specific support of tort reforms that could save hundreds of billions of dollars by reducing "defensive medicine" intended to protect not patients from illnesses but doctors from lawyers. He has said he will not add a dime to the deficit when bringing 47 million people into government-guaranteed health care. But Wednesday night, 17 million went missing: "There are now more than 30 million American citizens who cannot get coverage." Almost 10 million of the uninsured are not citizens, and most of them are illegal immigrants. Presumably the other 7 million could get insurance but chose not to. Democrats propose fines to eliminate that choice. He suggests health-insurance companies are making excessive profits. But since 1996, profits of the six such companies in the S&P 500 have been below the 500's average. He says a "public option"—a government insurance program—would not be subsidized to enable it to compete unfairly with private insurers. (The post office and the government's transportation -"public option," Amtrak, devour subsidies.) He says the public option is vital for keeping health insurers "honest"—but that it is only a wee "sliver" of reform. About that, Nancy Pelosi -disagrees.
And look, there goes Britney Spears limousine! Let's go!
TURN. THE. JACK. ASS. T. V. OFF.
And trust him. Nobody was there. Heh.So maybe not quite all hope is lost yet. Read More......
Sunday, September 13, 2009
Of Linen And Toilet Paper
Read More......Of course the so-called media not only won't tell you about how big yesterday's protest was but go on and on about how everyone was an "astroturf Nazi racist" of course. Those charges are not based on fact but on psychological projection of course.
Mark Hemingway has a good report:I asked one guy, who came up from South Carolina with 160 people on three buses, who put his trip together. He laughed and said, "My neighbor." Can we drive a stake through the astroturf claim now?Why the toilet paper in the title? That would be because of a little black (brown?) market problem that socialist Cuba is having right now. And I guess I must be a racist for using the commonly accepted terms to describe it, huh?Another interesting detail about the march — it was filled with immigrants. I'm pretty sure every Cuban in a thousand mile radius was there, helpfully explaining to everyone who would listen that Cuba's vaunted free health care system involves shoddily trained doctors and bringing your own linen to the hospital. I also spoke to angry immigrants from England and Ireland, appalled the country was slouching toward socialized medicine.
But wait, didn't I just quote in support of Cuban immigrants? I love them dearly. Do you have any idea what hell many of them went through to escape the giant Alcatraz they came from to get here? And have you ever met my family? Never mind. The truth doesn't matter -- only Alinsky's rules rule.
Speaking of family, I recently ran across another Orwell quote that pretty well sums it up:A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describingAny more questions?EnglandAmerica in a phrase.
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