So asks Rep. Lee Terry of Nebraska, giving the Weekly Republican Party Remarks (text available at IBD, h/t Andrew Malcolm): Well, painful as it is to say, there are legitimate reasons to block the pipeline, though the eco hysteria from the leftists is being used to deflect our attention and get us arguing along party lines. The truth is, blockage of a pipeline for crude doesn’t in any way prevent
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April 1, 2013
“Obama Tax Policy Prophesied 89 Years Ago”
PJM’s Scott Ott thinks the contemporary GOP leadership could learn well from Coolidge Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon, who in 1924 wrote a book promoting the Coolidge pro-growth tax policy. Of course, this is precisely the kind of hidebound thinking one has come to expect from many contemporary conservative true believers, who continue to cling to the bygone successes of the Coolidge / Goldwater / Reagan GOP tree like Emerald Ash
April 1, 2013
April fundraiser begins today [sticky; new posts appear below; THURSDAY UPDATE; MONDAY FINAL UPDATE]
Monday update: Thanks to all who contributed this month. It looks like I’m going to fall a bit short, but that’s what happens when the government raises taxes, I guess. I’m going to keep the post sticky for its final day today. Again, thanks to all of you who have supported and continue to support pw.
March 31, 2013
Compare & contrast [Darleen Click] UPDATED
Interesting to note the painting of Chavez Google selected is done in the Heroic Realism style so favored by authoritarian collectivists – required in both USSR and Nazi Germany. And, oh, Chavez is still dead. ******************* Concerning Chavez, “history” as taught about him has little to with the truth In fact he’d been a passionate and tireless student of labor relations for a decade before founding the UFW, handpicked to
March 31, 2013
To all my Christian friends
Wishing you all a happy Easter. May it be filled with family, friends, relaxation, and delicious (though perhaps inappropriately-named) deviled eggs. And of course, pie.
March 31, 2013
The myth of the contemporary “blue dog” Democrat
A note to the LA Times: you can own a gun, be a “lifelong hunter,” hail from California’s “rugged North Coast and the premier Napa-Sonoma wine country,” and still be a would-be fascist looking to use your temporary power as an elected official in a likely gerrymandered district to steal away the natural rights of millions of others. This is not, as you put it, the “voice of sense.” It
March 30, 2013
My response to the plethora of same-sex ‘marriage’ icons [Darleen Click]
John Fund on getting the government out of marriage Both sides operate from the shaky premise that government must be the arbiter of this dispute. Columnist Andrew Sullivan, a crusader for gay marriage, has written that “marriage is a formal, public institution that only the government can grant.” But that’s not so. Marriage predates government. Marriage scholar Lawrence Stone has noted that in the Middle Ages it was “treated as
March 29, 2013
“Obama uses executive power to move gun control agenda forward”
The Hill: President Obama is quietly moving forward on gun control. The president has used his executive powers to bolster the national background check system, jumpstart government research on the causes of gun violence and create a million-dollar ad campaign aimed at safe gun ownership. The executive steps will give federal law enforcement officials access to more data about guns and their owners, help keep guns out of the hands
March 29, 2013
The veil drops: Planned Parenthood endorses post-abortion infanticide [Darleen Click]
Even the Florida legislators were gobsmacked Florida legislators considering a bill to require abortionists to provide medical care to an infant who survives an abortion were shocked during a committee hearing this week when a Planned Parenthood official endorsed a right to post-birth abortion. Alisa LaPolt Snow, the lobbyist representing the Florida Alliance of Planned Parenthood Affiliates, testified that her organization believes the decision to kill an infant who survives