In This Dimension

Boehner: If You Can’t Stand the Heat….

So John Boehner, the putative leader of the party America just elected overwhelmingly to bring us back from the brink of Obama/Pelosi/Reid overspending us off a cliff and unconstitutionally grabbing more power than any executive ever dreamed of before, can’t control his emotions.

The guy cries in Congress. He cries giving a small election-night speech. He cries on “60 Minutes.”

Yo, John! Need an ADULT to take the helm here, pal.

Anyway, I just faxed the below to his office. Be nice if others faxed him, too. Feel free to plagiarize all you want. If he can’t take it, if he needs to[…]

Why do we STILL have “Progressives”?

Why do people keep voting for “Liberals” (that are the antithesis of Classical Liberals), and “Progressives”?

(OBTW - I note that some commenters don’t capitalize “Progressives”. That’d be fine if Progs were, you know,progressive. But as they are the second-most regressive force on the planet, behind (arguably) Islam, when we are talking about the political philosophy, let’s ensure we call it by it’s proper-noun form: “Progressive.” Or just “Prog,” on which I am beginning to standardize. Using the adjective “progressive, ” or writing “progressive” in lower-case denoting Progressivism as an adjective, is just factually incorrect. Thanks.)

One must realize that the goals of the[…]

Just in Case You Were Wondering - Dem vs GOP Congress

From American Thinker:

From early 2007 through the end of 2010, the Democrats had strong Majorities in — and control of — the US House of Representatives and also the U.S. Senate. Both are chambers where laws and policies that affect the economy are created and shaped.

The table below shows how the Democrat Congress performed on average during its four year tenure, vs. the average of the previous four years, 2003 through the end of 2006, when Republicans were at the helm.

(The Table and backup numbers are in the AT link. Enjoy.)

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Europe is Going Broke… Not Our Problem

Europe is a collection of welfare states. We all understand this - on both sides of the Atlantic.

What seems to not be understood by majorities on either side is that no European nation pays its own defense costs, and that it is this, and this alone, which has allowed these states (and Japan) to become the welfare states they have become… and that they insist we allow them to continue to be, with OUR money.

Simply, in the trade-off between guns and butter, the arguably ill-advised continuation of the American defense umbrella once Britain and France had (and once Japan had[…]