Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
A classic Seinfeld episode concerned George Costanza’s decision (at Kramer’s urging) to park in a handicapped zone. This being George, things went drastically wrong. What I remember from the episode, though, isn’t the cascading sequence of disasters; instead; it’s the opprobrium heaped upon George for parking in the blue. His
Continue readingOne of my “crossing the Rubicon” moments came upon me about twenty years ago, when I went to the main branch of the old San Francisco public library (before it moved to its snazzy, very expensive new digs), and tried to check out a book. I found myself standing in
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Continue readingAt about 4:30 PST, two headlines just came down the pike, following the Wisconsin Senate votes: Wisconsin anti-union measure must pass Assembly before it can go to Gov. Walker for signature More on Wisconsin anti-union vote: No Democratic senators were present – AP I’d like to rephrase them: Wisconsin pro-taxpayer
Continue readingThe core problem, which this video illustrates, is that the government forces public sector employees to pay dues to public sector unions, that then use those dues to buy elections, to place into power politicians who raise taxes to pay ever higher government salaries and pensions. This has nothing to
Continue readingPaul Krugman has a bully pulpit in the New York Times. Its numbers may be declining under Pinch’s overlordship, but it still remains “the paper of record” to a lot of people with their hands in or near the power trough. Paul Krugman’s readers respect him because (a) he holds
Continue readingWe all learned in school about the Triangle factory fire in New York back in 1911. The fire started and too many women died in significant part because of horrible working conditions the factory owners were able to impose on economically trapped women. The fire was a PR disaster for
Continue readingIt’s a good video: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ss4r8czKI_A[/youtube] Here’s the real point: If you want to work for government (which can be a very honorable or practical or neutral thing to do), you are forced to pay union dues. You know, when you pay those dues that they will be used to fund
Continue readingTaranto is always good. Sometimes, though, he’s great. That’s the case for his column today, which discusses (a) the difference between public and private sector unions and (b) the difference between Tea Party and union protests. He’s not saying anything you haven’t heard before or figured out for yourself; it’s
Continue readingRoger Simon, among others, has noted that the demonstrations in Madison demonstrate how old-fashioned the modern Left is, something that’s true despite the Left’s attempt to re-brand itself with the name “Progressive.” It therefore seemed appropriate for me to run again an article I wrote for American Thinker back in
Continue readingIn Roman times, purple was the Emperor’s color. Today, it’s the color of the man who dreamed of being America’s Leftist king: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQj-xBH30-I[/youtube] Is anybody else as creeped out by that video as I am? And another question, which has nothing to do with unions — Do you get the
Continue readingIf you haven’t already sent emails expressing support to Wisconsin Gov. Walker and the Republican Senators, you must. Here are the email addresses: [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Wisconsin has become the first battle in
Continue readingThe average Wisconsin teacher has a better total compensation package than the average Wisconsin taxpayer. After the proposed legislation goes through, the average Wisconsin teacher will still have a better total compensation package than the average Wisconsin taxpayer. If this was 1789, events in Madison would be the equivalent of
Continue readingAs I understand it, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, faced with a $3.6 billion biennial budget deficit (for the years 2011-2013), had the choice of raising taxes in his financially beleaguered state or firing up to 6,000 state employees. He chose a third route, proposing that Wisconsin’s public sector employees start
Continue readingThe point of a union is that it has political heft. One of the ways in which we demonstrate political heft in this country is money. Unions (just like corporations) can donate money directly to candidates and parties. The result, as Ace pithily says, is “nothing but legal corruption: they
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