Politics

WILLIAMS: Economic myths Walter E. Williams Saturday, August 23, 2008 By taking a couple of courses in economic theory, we could immunize ourselves from nonsense spouted by politicians and pundits, but in the meantime check out Professor John R. Lott’s “Freedomnomics: Why the Free Market Works.” His first chapter is “Are You Being Ripped Off?” [...]

It’s time to start the move toward two New Yorks. Upstate is a colony of Downstate. All of Upstate (except tax-subsidized Albany) is economically depressed because we are stuck in this peoples’ republic created by the New York City liberals. NYC’s status as a global capital allows it to thrive even with high government costs. [...]

Not really, but it was a polite thing to say.

I watched Brack Obama’s speech at the recent Democratic Convention and I’m afraid I am totally out of touch. Though I found the pre-speech background tape involving his mother and him quite touching, when Obama came on stage live it all went downhill. It was nothing more than a long series of the usual liberal [...]

I had a problem with disposing of some concrete from the house and called, a bit angry, the Buffalo Streets Commissioner, Steven Stepniak. He was very polite and immediately got a guy on the phone to pick the stuff up at the house–saving a trip back to the dump

The power elite is in a big hurry. They want this bailout of the super rich to be enacted quickly before the champions of the taxpayers and the working class have time to read the bills and expose the Fed’s coup d’etat. Can anyone name a major piece of legislation enacted in a panic that [...]

Republicans and Big Government Daily Article by James Ostrowski | Posted on 2/19/2002 George W. Bush’s State of the Union address must have baffled anyone who voted for him based on his pledge to cut the size of government. That speech has been properly and efficiently pilloried by Joseph Stromberg, Alan Bock, and others. The [...]

It’s great. Despite what the lying left says, it’s mostly ordinary citizens acting spontaneously. The old hacks aren’t even invited or welcome to most events. It’s not anti-Obama but anti-Big Government and that includes Bush and the Republican Congress when they had the majority. Naturally, as soon as they lost power, they fell in love [...]

“Raw capitalism is dead.” – Henry Paulson Meanwhile, the President’s Press Secretary announced that the rule of law was obsolete: DANA PERINO, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY: I think that if you look at the actions that have been taken, as they are taken on a case-by-case basis, I don’t think any company could be guaranteed [...]