The comments to my post yesterday on the Lerner / Salvi pre-scandal, the majority of which center around discussion of a replacement to our current taxation system. In nearly all my posts that advocate for the neutering or all-out abolition of tghe IRS, I note that a fair OR flat tax would be preferable to our current system — rhetorically, because it effectively defangs the class-warfare arguments that the left

A reminder:  by the time you’re finished with breakfast (and, if you’re like me, your morning crap), you’ll likely have already violated several federal or local regulations, and be guilty of one or two crimes for which you won’t today be prosecuted, the beneficent police state kindly turning a blind eye to most of the specific goings on inside your home.  For now. None of which much matters, because we’re

“If Republicans offer these types of ‘alternatives’ to voters — where both parties favor expanding government dependency — why should their base support them?” The degree to which constitutionalists must engage in a kind of intellectual gymnastics in order to support nearly any politician these days goes to show just how far removed we’ve become from a representative republic in any real sense. Well, that, and the success of Chris

Illinois Review: The IRS scandal may have its roots in Illinois politics. Specifically, the 1996 U.S. Senate race between Democrat Congressman Dick Durbin and conservative Republican State Rep. Al Salvi. More than a decade before his 2010 letter to IRS officials urging the agency to target conservative organizations, U.S. Senator Dick Durbin’s political career crossed paths with Ms. Lerner when she was head of the Enforcement Division of the Federal

Subject: um. WOW! Date: May 29, 2013 5:47:16 PM EDT Jeff – Um. WOW. We didn’t except so many of you to come out to celebrate the departure of Michele Bachmann from Congress. If we can harness this momentum — and raise $200,000 by our FEC deadline in 48 hours — we really have a chance to kick the rest of Michele Bachmann’s Tea Party buddies out of Congress. Will

And the “common sense” affront by government on rights upon which the government supposedly cannot infringe, continues apace: The California Senate on Wednesday approved a package of seven gun control bills, including background checks for people who buy ammunition, introduced in response to the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. […] The measures include a requirement that Californians who want to buy ammunition, and the vendors who

Uh, ok:   You’re queer enough, you’re fabulous enough, and gosh darn it, people accept your same-sex gropings and penetrations. Todd Starnes: The Department of Justice has been accused of religious intolerance and viewpoint discrimination after workers were sent an email directing them to verbally affirm homosexuality, according to a law firm specializing in religious liberty and now representing a DOJ whistleblower. Liberty Counsel said DOJ employees were emailed a

When the government controls your health care — in fact, when they have the compassion to give it to you for free — they can (and have to, in fact.  For the compassion!) dictate what it is you need to do to earn it. And now we have a bipartisan push for just such a thing. To which I say this:  I told you so.  Though I’ll admit, in my

I don’t usually weigh in on terrestrial politics, but the truth is, if  I’d been arrested every time I got a hand job from some underage kid who wanted me to sign his Lost Boys t-shirt, there would be no Dream a Little Dream, much less its (in my opinion) criminally underrated sequel. Sometimes the law is just stupid — especially when it threatens to get in the way of