Newsweek interviews dear Andrew Ian Dodge on the battle between social conservatives and fiscal conservatives to set the message of the Tea Party and control its message, money and power. The Republicans who just swept into state and federal offices ran on fiscal conservatism and the economy. I am shocked that social conservatives now are …
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Are fiscal conservatives crazy, or liars — or both?
I swear I thought I linked the following video when I first saw it a week or so ago, but Instapundit linked it yesterday and I didn’t — until now: The point of the video is that regulations — including residential zoning laws — now place such a high threshold on going into business as …
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The economic theory of Leftist hopelessness vs. conservative optimism
Today Instapundit — here and here — linked both Megan McArdle’s explanation of why we should get rid of income taxes on corporations and Amity Shlaes using the story of Triple-Crown winner Secretariat, whose bio movie was recently released, as a cautionary tale for the tsumani of increased estate tax rates set to begin wiping …
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Bill Whittle reminds the world that fiscal conservatism is founded on the principle that wealth comes from ideas, not rich people, poor people or a black box
The Left’s paradigm for the origin of wealth is that it comes from a black box and there’s only a limited amount of it, so if one person has more it means another person must have less. This is the rationale for the redistribution of wealth in a nutshell. In contrast, fiscal conservatism is founded …
Shelby Steele sums up the racial grievance industry
This popped up in my Facebook feed from Karen Kelly. Steele provides the perfect description of the motivations of the NAACP and its fellow travelers and useful idiots in the racial grievance industry. What they have done to feed their own greed and lust for power is enslave blacks to racial grievances instead of creating …
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'Make Mine Freedom' from 1948
Is it just me, or does the “-ism” salesman remind you of anyone? H/T: National Juggernaut.
The Republicans' new YouCut Web site crowdsources the work of restoring fiscal sanity to the federal budget
One of the most wonderful points economist Friedrich Hayek made in his book explaining how liberal/socialist policies are The Road to Serfdom is that under capitalism the market crowdsources how to solve economic challenges by allowing millions of people use their intelligence and ambition to solve the problems in front of them with great specifity. In …
Crowdrise is a new social fundraising Web site
Today a friend sent me a link to Crowdrise, a new Web site to assist individuals and charities in fundraising and volunteering. It was founded by the actor, Ed Norton, and launched on May 12. My friend is promoting the page for the David Lynch Foundation, which is raising money to pay for school children …
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UPDATED How to grab the gay equality issue from the Left
I have a proposal for attracting to conservatism a demographic that’s up-for-grabs. There are three blog publishers who are in a position to do this. Each one could do it alone, but it will make a bigger impact if they hold hands and make the leap of faith together. My proposal is that at least …
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Welcome, Rush-lanche! Thank you, Mark Steyn!
Welcome, new gentle readers who just heard me on “The Rush Limbaugh” show with Mark Steyn. Also, thank you, conservative gay Newsreal blogger, Mark Koenig (see DaTechGuy’s YouTube video of him from CPAC last month), for giving me the heads-up that Mark Steyn mentioned today he was inviting calls from conservative lesbians and gays. Here …
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