Of all the Republicans I know — and I know a lot of them — only about, say, one percent of them are among the top one percent of income earners in this country. So why are the other 99% of Republicans Republicans? It’s an essential question that doesn’t get asked enough. If the top […]
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Perry Lays ’em on the Table
Don’t count out Rick Perry just yet. The Lone Star State governor laid his tax reform cards on the table today, and it’s a humdinger: A simple-to-understand 20% flat tax that Perry and his economic advisors say will spur massive job growth in the country. I have had the pleasure of working with one of those […]
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No one understands the state-by-state pension time bomb in America better than Mary Williams Walsh of The New York Times. For several years now, Ms. Walsh has been studying and chronicling the crisis. Her latest piece, in case you missed it, is on the pension underfunding disaster now descending on Rhode Island. It should terrify all […]
Read the rest of this entry »Green Eye-Shaded Anarchists
Funniest story of the day by the wonderful Ginger Otis at The New York Post. It details squabbling among protesters over — wait for it — the $500,000 in wealth they have accumulated. With quotes like these from “occupiers” it’s hard not to laugh: “The other day, I took in $2,000. I kept $650 for […]
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Is it possible to rent a Wall Street Occupier? I’d be willing to pay, say, $49 per hour — a dollar less than I just got socked to park on West 76th Street — for an angry protester with a drum and a tent. If the Occupiers really want to after bald greed, I can […]
Read the rest of this entry »The Scarce Candidate
I’ve often wondered what would happen if a popular presidential candidate stopped showing up at events around the country, instead relying 100% on surrogates to extol his advantages. “John Smith is qualified, busy — and he’s not a blow-hard.” That would be the essential message. That’s the way campaigns were waged in the old days, when […]
Read the rest of this entry »The [Steve] Jobs Plan President Obama Ignored
Fascinating read in the Huffington Post this morning on a meeting between the late Apple chairman Steve Jobs and President Obama. Mr. Jobs, who was a vocal Obama supporter in 2008, reportedly told Mr. Obama that he would be a one-term president, in part because of his anti-business policies. Jobs also harshly criticized America’s teachers […]
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President Obama and NATO will receive due credit for the long-overdue dispatching of crazy, Libyan strong-man Mohammar Gadhafi. But the real credit, objectively, belongs to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. It was Mrs. Clinton who went out on the line — way out on the line — to convince the President that airstrikes in support […]
Read the rest of this entry »Stark Raving Joe
Persistent rumors have abounded — and have been shot down with equal persistence — that Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton might swap positions for the 2012 elections. The argument is that Biden adds nothing to the 2012 ticket — and that he yearns to be Secretary of State — while […]
Read the rest of this entry »Are You Smarter Than a Wall Street Protester?
I stole that headline directly from New York Magazine which just published the results of a quiz of the Wall Street protesters on current — and basic — economic and political questions. I would love to comment more on the results, but I don’t want to skew your answers on the survey. Besides, I’m too busy […]
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