As Congressman Dave Camp has observed, the tax code of the United States is now ten times as long as the Bible, with none of the good news.
4:23 PM 02/16/2013
"In extreme persecution, the seat of the Holy Roman Church will be occupied by Peter the Roman, who will feed the sheep through many tribulations, at the term of which the city of seven hills will be destroyed, and the formidable Judge will judge his people. The End." --- Saint Malachy, 1139 A.D.
4:41 PM 12/07/2012
“I’m British, I know how to queue.” --- Arthur Dent, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
12:43 PM 11/09/2012
"I've said it before and I'll say it again: Democracy simply doesn't work." --- Kent Brockman
1:40 PM 11/03/2012
Perhaps the clearest example that Barack Obama’s re-election campaign has abandoned all hope is their slap-dash effort at articulating an economic agenda for a second term. Specifically, in response to trillion-dollar deficits, an imminent tax cliff, and the largest debt in the history of planet Earth, the president issued an absurd little pamphlet populated with pictures of himself.
1:42 PM 10/30/2012
This race is over, but the conspiracy theories are about to begin. And, boy howdy, are things going to get ugly.
1:42 PM 10/04/2012
I defy you to watch the video of Barack Obama’s 2007 speech at Hampton University without cringing. In the worst fake accent since Madonna decided she was British, Obama preaches the gospel of grievance to his mostly black audience, claiming that racial bigotry was behind the federal government’s poor response to Hurricane Katrina, while heaping praise on his dyspeptic pastor, Jeremiah Wright. Like Obama’s presidency itself, it is an embarrassing display.
12:49 PM 09/18/2012
So often when he addresses crowds, Bill Clinton officiates at a marriage of mendacity and excitable ignorance. This was plainly the case in his acclaimed address to the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte. The speech was very well received, and my suspicion is that President Obama’s post-convention poll bounce was primarily attributable to Clinton’s performance.
12:37 PM 09/13/2012
Democrats are fond of saying that Republicans rely too heavily on tax cuts in their economic proposals. In reality, Mitt Romney’s tax plan is not only tepid and incomplete, but he has neglected to expose the true destructiveness of Democratic policies.
2:30 PM 09/01/2012
TAMPA, FL --- “They know better than we do.”
11:15 PM 04/22/2012
And then there’s Mitt.
1:02 PM 03/08/2012
What if the Republican Party could field a presidential nominee able to guarantee victory in the state of Florida, and perhaps across the entire South? What if this person also possesses twice the executive governing experience as the GOP’s current front-runner, Mitt Romney, and is broadly considered the best Republican governor in recent decades? Finally, what if this person espouses precisely the limited government philosophy for which dispirited Republicans yearn?
2:25 PM 01/11/2012
There is a film about a ruthless, wealthy man who just wanted to be loved. The man bought up everything that caught his eye, but it was not enough. All he really yearned for was his childhood sled.
12:58 PM 12/29/2011
“Pointless … like giving caviar to an elephant.”
~ William Faulkner
3:08 PM 12/12/2011
On October 10, 2011, this column (which is an unnecessarily self-important way of saying “this guy”) anticipated the rise of Newt Gingrich in the race for the Republican presidential nomination. Having presaged most polls and pundits, we (which is an unnecessarily self-important way of saying “I”) are (am) now prepared to dash whatever street cred our lucky call accrued by making an unnecessarily rash prediction: Newt Gingrich will be a one-term president.
11:12 AM 10/10/2011
President Newton Leroy Gingrich. How does that sound? Roll the words around in your mouth for a bit. Could you get used to that? It’s a cheeky, full-bodied taste, to be sure.
10:45 AM 09/28/2011
Ignore Ron Paul at your peril.
1:43 PM 09/23/2011
Michele Bachmann made some sense last night. Near the end of the GOP presidential debate in Orlando, Florida, she observed, “Every four years, Republicans are told they have to settle.” The congresswoman meant that the party always gets urged toward someone moderate and “electable” --- you know, like John McCain --- rather than picking a proper conservative to run for president.
3:57 PM 09/19/2011
Ralph Waldo Emerson famously and aptly observed that, “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.” Coming from his essay, “Self-Reliance,” the full quotation asserts such folly is “adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.”
1:39 PM 09/01/2011
Rick Perry wants to be unimportant. The Texas governor has famously promised that, if he is elected president of the United States, he will "work hard every day to make Washington, D.C., as inconsequential in your life as [he] can." In Austin recently, he gave a few of us some details as to how that shakes out.
