Casualties are mounting. Home Depot announced they were killing off 7,000. Sprint: killing 8,000. Pfizer: 8,000 more. Other companies, including Caterpillar, brought the total to 40,000 jobs killed, in just one day.Sadly, casualties are expected to rise, with no end in sight. Economists warn that we’re just witnessing the tip of the iceberg. By the […]

California residents are getting an early Christmas present, my friends! Democrats plan to eliminate the state’s 18-cent-per-gallon gasoline excise tax, as well as an 8-cent-per-gallon sales tax on gasoline. So it’s celebration time! Except that it’s not. You see, Democrats want to wipe out the taxes… but replace them with a 39-cent-per-gallon “highway user fee.” […]

In the Los Angeles Times today. The headline says it all: “Political Temperature May be Just Right for Health Care Overhaul.” Ohhhh! Political temperature may be just right. I wonder what the political temperature is? Well, the temperature is: “[T]he bleak environment [and ‘the ballooning budget deficit’] may paradoxically spur the kind of costly, sweeping […]

40% of America (I’m approximating the number here) knowingly voted for socialism, whether they know what it is or not. Whether they know the definition of the word “socialism” or not, they understand the concept. There are 47 million Americans who do not pay taxes, who do not pay income taxes, and I will wager […]

Robin Roberts interviewing Barack Obama, and she said, “Do you have any regrets that you said to Joe the Plumber, your spread the wealth comments?” OBAMA: Not at all. Look, if John McCain’s best argument is that he wants to continue the same Bush tax cuts for the very wealthiest Americans that in 2000 he […]