May 20, 2012 – John Ransom Ericynot wrote: Part of what Buffett proposed in the so-called Buffett Rule is raising the tax rate on capital gains and dividends to the level of ordinary income. Re-read my original post from 11:19 AM. You’re confused and so, apparently, is John Ransom.- Obama’s Campaign about Nothing Dear Comrade [...]

By George Will (Archive) · Sunday, May 20, 2012 TEWKSBURY, Mass. — Russ Caswell, 68, is bewildered: “What country are we in?” He and his wife Pat are ensnared in a Kafkaesque nightmare unfolding in Orwellian language. This town’s police department is conniving with the federal government to circumvent Massachusetts law — which is less [...]

Reuters – UK Focus – Sat, May 19, 2012 CAMP DAVID, Md., May 19 (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama will press European leaders to ease up on fiscal austerity and focus on economic growth at a summit on Saturday that will discuss ways to stem turmoil in the euro zone and head off the [...]

The feds impose tariffs that raise costs for U.S. solar power. May 18, 2012 – WSJ Washington has long ensured that American taxpayers subsidize solar power as much or more than any energy source. Now the political class wants consumers to pay even more in the form of tariffs on imports of Chinese solar cells. [...]

Why this social democracy has a liberalizing labor market and strong growth. The answer isn’t that it’s outside the euro zone. May 18, 2012 – WSJ By ANNE JOLIS Oslo The so-called Swedish model has long held a special place in the leftist imagination. In 1969 the Christian Science Monitor reported that Sweden’s 41%-of-GDP tax [...]

What unions really want is legal standing to sue employers and prevent any changes—in wages, hours or other conditions of employment—unwanted by their members. May 18, 2012 – WSJ By CHRISTOPHER M. TONER Wisconsin’s recall election is on, pitting Gov. Scott Walker against Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett. If Mr. Walker is voted out of office [...]

May 18, 2012 – WSJ By ALLYSIA FINLEY Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown is making California lawmakers out to be models of Franciscan frugality. Last year they made “tough cuts across state government to reduce General Fund spending as a share of the economy to its lowest level” in 40 years,” he says. Hold the holy [...]

May 19, 2012 – John Ransom Obama may go down as the first president in the history of the U.S. to run a campaign based, like Jerry Seinfeld’s comedy, on nothing.   It’s gotten so bad that the New York Times is appealing to people to “believe in” Obama, like he’s a children’s character or [...]

May 19, 2012 James Eaves Paul Krugman gave up being an honest economist a long time ago – shortly after he learned that the cool crowd gave him more attention when he conjured up economic-like arguments to support the left’s irrational view of the world. His most recent piece of propaganda claims that increased national [...]

May 18, 2012 Federal Priorities: A new report shows we have spent $70 billion on climate change since 2008 while our strapped military is ordered to become energy-efficient. Imagine weapons that don’t harm the environment. Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., ranking member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, and a senior member of [...]