The Ideal Capital Gains Tax Reform
Warren Buffett recently enraged the Right by chastising Congress for “coddling” millionaires and billionaires. In a widely quoted op-ed, he urged lawmakers to “raise rates immediately on taxable...
View Article25-Years ago Today: Reagan Addresses the Nation on Rumors about Arms...
Good evening. I know you've been reading, seeing, and hearing a lot of stories the past several days attributed to Danish sailors, unnamed observers at Italian ports and Spanish harbors, and...
View ArticleTaxes: A Big Win-Win for America
America’s No. 1 problem is sluggish job growth. No. 2 is the explosive growth in income disparity between the favored few and the broad middle class. The country could zero in on both problems by...
View ArticleWhen Ronald Reagan lead a strike. How actors got residuals
Actors receive payments called residuals when shows they were in are repeated over time. This makes for some smooth income in a rather choppy business. How did they get this from the studio bosses...
View ArticleOccupy Wall Street as described by the Cookie Monster
To help Republicans understand the Occupy Wall Street movement, here's an explanation from the Cookie Monster. Thank you San Francisco Weekly, who discovered this on The Onion's A/V club...
View ArticleCapital Gains, Gains & More Gains
Ever wonder how the rich keep getting richer and richer? Wonder no more. With power and precision, Robert Lenzner unmasks the mechanism in “The Top 0.1% of the Nation Earn Half of All Capital Gains.”...
View Article"If Obama Treated Israel Like Reagan Did, He'd be Impeached."
The rightward tilt of America's foreign policy stance toward Israel – which in many ways parallels the Christian right's co-opting of the GOP – is replete with shameful anecdotal displays. Sadly, many...
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Desperate Republican Ploy - Reenacting Reagan vs. Carter
There is no shortage of those on the right who would try to liken the upcoming Manichean conflict between Romney and Obama as Reagan vs. Carter. This is something my libertarian friend will bring up...
View ArticleFood Stamp President
Food Stamp President Why doesn’t someone just come out and call Newt Gingrich out? When Newt called President Obama the ‘food stamp’ President what he was really doing was slamming the President for...
View ArticleThis is not your Father's GOP
Hey everyone. It has been a while since I summoned the energy to write a diary given my other commitments, but after yet another political discussion online, I went into a long rant that I felt I may...
View ArticleThe Empty Sack Presidency
I am fascinated by this year's Republican primary because of how it reminds me of the party's election processes since Reagan. As Romney and Gingrich circle the toilet bowl for the Republican...
View ArticleCapital Gains
I was talking about capital gains taxes with a tax lawyer friend, who reminded me about the 1986 Tax Reform Act, promoted and signed into law by President Reagan. The law lowered the top income tax...
View ArticleMitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and the Myth of Reagan's Success with Supply Side...
Newt Gingrich is touting his involvement in the implementation of Reagan's supply side economics as part of the reason people should vote for him. Mitt Romney also refers to Reagan's economics as the...
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Can't Sleep
"The poor can't sleep because they are hungry; the rich can't sleep because the poor are awake." I heard a person being interviewed on the radio say that earlier today. It was in the background and...
View ArticleBarry Hussein’s War On America; Homefront Edition.
Everywhere we look we see tangible evidence of the depredations of Barry MaoBama Hussein and his Marxist brethren. Actually, it’s difficult at times to ascertain just exactly whose drummer Obama is...
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The Sometimes Friday Film Reviews: The Oscars 'Makes Me Want To Throw Up'...
Yes, separating the Church of Cinematology from The Beautiful People's Republic of Hollywood is indeed on the line this year as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences meets again tomorrow...
View ArticleUse the Breitbart example?
Andrew Breitbart died today. Should we use his example of how to react to a famous, outspoken politician's death the day the death was announced to the public?
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