Maggie's Farm

Let's tax 'em at 80%. Just for the heck of it. They'll keep on working hard...won't they?

Is amnesty designed to be a distraction from the Big One - the budget?

One of the scariest things in America is prosecutorial power. Am Thinker discusses.

17 Socialists in the House? At the very least, it seems to me. Plus one in the White House.

From David Warren on Thomas Sowell (and MLK):

I love Sowell, because he can "do" desolation without wandering into despair. Reciprocally, he can do hope -- the real thing, not the rhetorical posture. A black man, from a fatherless home, raised by an aunt whom he thought was his mother, in rural then urban conditions that would excuse any man for failure, he saw through his circumstances. He dragged himself up, through a machine shop, through the Marines, eventually to great eminence in the academic world, at a time before he could trade on his race. And he continued rising, with the help of honest friends, and by ignoring vilifications.