LEE RODGERSNERVOUS IN THE (SECRET) SERVICE ...
EARNING MONEY FOR YOURSELF -- FINALLY ...
A RACE-BASED RAILROADING IN FLORIDA?
EARNING MONEY FOR YOURSELF -- FINALLY ...
A RACE-BASED RAILROADING IN FLORIDA?
Could an iconoclast make the argument that those Secret Service agents assigned to protect Obama were consorting with hookers because they wanted to hang out with a better class of people?
"Just when you thought our national debt could not get any worse, we now owe money to Colombian hookers." -- Andy Borowitz, referring to the dispute between a Secret Service agent and a Colombian prostitute over her $47 fee.
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Congratulations! If you are that mythical figure, the "average American," today you begin working for yourself. By coincidence, this year the tax-filing deadline date and Tax Freedom Day both occur on the same date. Today. Every moment the average American has worked from January 1 thru yesterday has been rewarded with exactly enough money to pay the combined federal, state and local tax burden. This is four days later than last year, indicating the trend in our monstrous, money-grabbing government. (Other measures of the government ripoff show an even later date, more than six months into the year, but let's not quibble about today's celebratory event.)
At the present rate, four more years of Obama would push Tax Freedom Day into May. That's not even counting the likely disaster hidden in his projected second-term "flexibility" that he discussed with Russian leaders, but not the American suckers ... er ... citizens.
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Gee, wonder what Obama means when he says he'll "ask" some taxpayers to pay more? Since when does the government "ask" if you want to turn over more money for politicians to blow?
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Dare we hope that government prosecutors will deal as vigorously with the bunch of thieves at the party-loving General Services Administration as with baseball pitcher Roger Clemens for throwing the ball too hard?
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A few things Democrat "advisor" Hilary Rosen left out of her despicable remarks about Ann Romney "never working a day in her life": Mrs. Romney's first son was born in 1970 while both were undergraduates at Brigham Young University living in a $75-a-month basement apartment. She got her degree from Harvard by taking night courses at Harvard University Extension School. During and after raising five children, she was stricken with multiple sclerosis fifteen years ago. (Source: Wikipedia)
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Reader Peter has this reaction to the party of Kennedys, Kerry, et al, attacking Romney's wealth ...
"Apparently, I’m supposed to be more outraged by what Mitt Romney does with HIS money than by what Barack Obama does with MINE."
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Re the Trayvon Martin case ...
When Al Sharpton takes a leading role, appearing everywhere with the parents, you can be certain that this is turning into a political rant, the volume of which will far outweigh the facts. Demagoguery is the lead item on the menu.
John Fund, writing in National Review, illuminates the built-in Obama administration bias ...
"Here’s hoping the criminal-justice system cools rather than exacerbates the passions the killing of Trayvon Martin has raised.
"But Attorney General Eric Holder isn’t helping. Wednesday, he appeared before the Reverend Al Sharpton’s National Action Network to praise Sharpton 'for your partnership, your friendship, and your tireless efforts to speak out for the voiceless, to stand up for the powerless, and to shine a light on the problems we must solve, and the promises we must fulfill.'”
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The Daily Caller reports that an online statement from the Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ “Prophet Mohammad Division” claimed the West has surrendered to Iran’s will and accepted the Islamic republic’s right to nuclear enrichment.
Brigadier Yadollah Javani, the head of the Guards’ political bureau: “Iran now, because of its progress in its nuclear program, holds a much stronger position in the negotiations with the West and it seems that the West has now realized that all of its pressure on Iran has proven fruitless, and now it has adopted a correct strategy of accepting a nuclear Iran.”
Of course. Did any rational person expect otherwise from Obama?
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Jonah Goldberg on the Obama youth vote ...
"Obama owed his success to being a charming political unknown onto whom young people could project their hopes. His rhetoric was a hipsterized version of Successories for college kids: 'Yes, we can' and 'We are the ones we’ve been waiting for!'
"Obama was different. He had that cool name. He was black. He’d never done much that was important, save give some fun speeches, but that was okay; neither had most college students, and that didn’t keep them from being special either. More important, they believed his promises, they liked his style, they bought his easy answers and flattering pandering.
"All of the exciting reasons to vote for Obama are gone. Even his accomplishments don’t excite people, never mind his failures. His 'Yes, we can' rhetoric is gone because it sounds stupid after four years of 'No, we didn’t.'” -- NRO
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Jay Leno --
"President Obama released his tax returns. It turns out he made $900,000 less in 2011 then he did in 2010. You know what that means? Even Obama is doing worse under President Obama."
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The brains of the Obama gang suffers a moment of hoof-in-mouth disease, as John Podhoretz of the NY Post explains ...
"David Axelrod, Obama’s chief strategist, deserves enormous credit for having fashioned one of the most brilliant national campaigns in American history in 2008. But that was then, and this is now — and now Axelrod has gone on 'Fox News Sunday' and offered the best and most succinct case for a Romney presidency yet.
“'The choice in this election,' said Axelrod, 'is between an economy that produces a growing middle class and that gives people a chance to get ahead and their kids a chance to get ahead and an economy that continues down the road we are on.'
"Oops, did I say that? David Axelrod admitted that we aren’t better off than four years ago.
"Of course, the overseer of the 'road we are on,' the man whose policy it has been to intervene directly and repeatedly in the economic affairs of the American people, is Obama."
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Unfulfilled fantasies dep't: Santorum fans who believe Romney could/should/would pick Rick as a running mate.
Talk about kidding yourself ...
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Re the doomed (and demagogic) "Buffett rule" ...
If the so-called "Buffett Rule" requiring million-dollar earners to pay a minimum of 30% of their income to the IRS should ever pass into law, there would be immediate surreptitious action by the same lawmakers who vote FOR it to construct tax-shelters aimed at avoidance of such taxes. It's just a showboat sham game for the gullible suckers who lap up liberal nostrums.
Any student of history knows we've seen this charade before. The only real victims would be owners of small businesses whose income is grossly exaggerated because it's calculated before legitimate deductions.
And people smart enough to get rich will continue to get richer. The sheeple, however, will be happier.
"Loopholes are the evasions that everybody in Congress loves to hate, but Congress creates new ones in every tax bill. It’s the love that dare not speak its name." -- Wes Pruden, Washington Times.
By the way ... when IS Buffett going to pay the taxes the government says his businesses have owed for years?
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Great Moments in Television: The cretinous Bob Beckel, Democrat shill, dropping the F-bomb on live TV (Fox).
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Call it a sign of the times. London's Daily Mail newspaper reports that about a half-million British citizens with a net worth of 250,000 pounds (just under $400,000) are considering leaving the country within the next two years because of concerns about crumbling road and rail networks, crime and high taxes.
Give the U.S. four more years of Obama insanity and a similar trend might be expected here.
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Robert Samuelson (RealClearPolitics.com) addresses the much-discussed poll purporting to show which nations are happiest ...
"On the most comprehensive list, the United States ranks 11th out of 156 countries. Here are the top 10 and their populations: Denmark, 5.6 million; Finland, 5.4 million; Norway, 5 million; Netherlands, 16.7 million; Canada, 34.8 million; Switzerland, 7.9 million; Sweden, 9.5 million; New Zealand, 4.4 million; Australia, 22.9 million; and Ireland, 4.6 million.
"All these countries share one common characteristic: They're small in population and, except Canada and Australia, land mass. Small countries enjoy an advantage in the happiness derby. They're more likely to have homogeneous populations with fewer ethnic, religious and geographic conflicts. This minimizes one potentially large source of unhappiness."
Something to remember the next time you hear the virtues of diversity applauded.
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Greg Gutfeld on Monday attacked comics for not making jokes about the current White House resident. Appearing on Fox News's The Five, Gutfeld said, "Asking a comedian to make fun of Obama is like asking a priest to mock Christ." -- Newsbusters
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Jim Eason supplies this compendium of actual newspaper headlines ...
"BRIDGES HELP PEOPLE CROSS RIVERS"
"STUDY SHOWS FREQUENT SEX ENHANCES
PREGNANCY CHANCES"
"MEETING ON OPEN MEETINGS IS CLOSED"
"MAN ACCUSED OF KILLING LAWYER RECEIVES
A NEW ATTORNEY"
"COUNTY TO PAY $250,000 TO ADVERTISE LACK OF FUNDS"
"FEDERAL AGENTS RAID GUN SHOP, FIND WEAPONS"
"HOMICIDE VICTIMS RARELY TALK TO POLICE"
"MAN WITH 8 DUIs BLAMES DRINKING PROBLEM"
"RALLY AGAINST APATHY DRAWS SMALL CROWD"
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My friend Mike, who likes to point out that his last name ends in a vowel, revels in the telling of this one ...
"A friend is someone who will help you move. A really GOOD friend is someone who will help you move ... a body."
"...and now, if you'll excuse me..."