Keep mind that Saverin, James and Boeing are extremely visible ramifications of high taxes and regulation.  What is impossible to measure is the amount of business activity that is forgone because of the tax code.  It simply doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to work harder if that mea/… Read full post »

Wow!  I just listened to the viral-audio of a North Carolina teacher (Tanya Dixon-Neely) chastising a student (Hunter Rogers) for what she considered disrespect of President Obama.  As usual, the liberals will undoubtedly claim it’s an isolated incident and not indicative of teachers/… Read full post »

Facebook…ROTFL Until I read the article below I couldn’t explain why I was secretly rooting for Facebook to fail.

Rich Karlgaard writing Monday at Forbes.com on Facebook's disappointing IPO:  

1. Too late. Facebook's shares have been dead in the water for the last 12 months. Pr… Read full post »

How does a rapacious company get repeat business?

Watching Obama campai… Read full post »

Just read an article that clearly shows the benefits of Republican solutions to our economic woes.  If someone could make the argument to vote for Democrats after reading this article I’d love to hear it.   

In his January 2011 inaugural address, California Gov. Jerry… Read full post »

In April of 2009 Obama held a beer summit at the White House to help lessen the controversy he helped to create.   Summarized the situation came to pass because a black Harvard professor (Gates) lost his keys and attempted to break into his own house.  A white cop (Crowley) responded t/… Read full post »

 Henry Hazlitt in "Economics in One Lesson," 1946:

When a corporation loses a hundred cents of every dollar it loses, and is permitted to keep only 60 cents of every dollar it gains, and when it cannot offset its years of losses against its years of gains, or cannot do… Read full post »

Contrary to popular belief, recessions and expansions are not objective events. The decision of whether or not the economy is in recession or expansion is unofficially made by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).  Specifically, the Business Cycle Dating Committee of the NBER determin… Read full post »

I may not have many nice things to say about liberals but I will give them this: their heart is in the right place.  However, thanks to unintended consequences, what was designed to help often does more harm than good.  One doesn’t need to peel the onion too far to see… Read full post »

Usually when the Campaigner in Chief talks about the debt and the reason it’s so high he blames the rich for not paying their fair share.  A similar cry is often uttered throughout Open Salon.  So the Democrats devised a plan called the Buffet Rule, its intention, target the 1% and/… Read full post »

The clock's running out on Detroit. City leaders are up against a $200 million deficit driven by exploding labor costs and may not be able to pay the bills come May.… Read full post »

Of all the abuses buried in the thousands of pages of Obamacare let me offer the tax hike on tanning salons, as the most flagrant.   In order to pay for Obamacare the Democrats had to scavenge for money, and in so doing, they astutely targeted the weak.   

I don’t have… Read full post »

Polls suggest Americans strongly oppose laws taking away the collective bargaining power of public employee unions, however, I suspect if the public was asked to define what collective bargaining is, few would be able to do so.  Contrary to popular belief, it does not abolish public employee uni… Read full post »