It's Will's birthday. 447th.
Raise a pint to celebrate today, my little Shakespearian collegiate pupette!
Brief, at IBD: Faith And Freedom
View from the Dems: Is America still a serious nation?
Is it serious to continue going into hock to the Chinese?
Kim Jong-Il looking at things! Via Samiz with good commentary
It's always Amateur Hour in Noko
Morning Jay: Memo to the Media: Obama Is Not Popular!
He will always be popular in Medialand.
Jurassic President - Obama's preserved in the amber of an echo chamber where the romanticized version of the 1930s, seen through the new-age gauze of the 1970s, is paradise.
As we have always contended here, the Left are dinosaurs and the myth of the omniscient State is dead. Defunct. An ex-myth. Gone to the choir invisible.
Surber: Public flunks Obama
WSJ: Why Air Traffic Controllers Fall Asleep on the Job
Union rules
Commentary: The Reality of Campus Anti-Semitism
More about the Boeing story
Via Insty, Prof proposes Easter Egg Bombing of Charles Krauthammer
The Lefties often express thoughts about killing, suppressing or censoring those with whom they disagree. Ideology is their Jihad. At Maggie's, we enjoy having our ideas challenged. We welcome fact-based disagreement, but not emotional rants.
Ace discovers Bastiat
He would have done so much sooner, had he been a regular reader of Maggie's. Bastiat's The Law is part of our canon.
Oh Brother… Media Pushes Global Warming Climate Change Junk Science Book on Endangered Places
Via Dino:
America has 400 billionaires with a combined net worth of $1.3 trillion. Congress could confiscate their stocks and bonds, and force them to sell their businesses, yachts, airplanes, mansions and jewelry. The problem is that after fleecing the rich of their income and net worth, and the Fortune 500 corporations of their profits, it would only get us to mid-August.
Good piece at FP about why Obama seems foreign. A quote:
...President Obama is the culmination of a century of foreign infiltration already in place. The turning of America’s institutions of higher education took place decades ago; it is too little too late to focus on such infiltration now. Beginning in the early 20th century, America’s colleges and universities were infiltrated by German thought, then thought to be the most sophisticated in the world. That school of thought, a merger of Hegelian utopianism and Marxist classism, quickly infected America’s halls of power. Theodore Roosevelt, always trendy, bought into the new “progressivism” with alacrity, jettisoning the Constitution and capitalism in the process. Bringing this perverse ideology to American shores, Teddy announced, “We of to-day who stand for the Progressive movement here in the United States are not wedded to any particular kind of machinery, save solely as means to the end desired.” This was the philosophy of incipient dictatorship. It was brought to its near-term apex under a college professor, Woodrow Wilson, who thought that the Constitution itself needed to be stripped away.
Ending Medicare as we know it:
The fact is that we can't keep Medicare as it is. It's broke. We are only arguing about how to transform it. Obama wants the experts to ration, and Ryan wants individuals to chose the type insurance they prefer. Do you trust 50 million consumers making their own financial decisions, or a dozen carefully chosen experts? What could go wrong?
de Rugy's The Truth About Taxes and Redistribution -Do the rich pay their fair share?
... the rate of income taxation on the highest earning Americans has fluctuated drastically, from 25 percent of income in 1930 to 92 percent of income in the early 1950’s. Despite these vast differences in these top marginal rates, the total percentage of GDP the federal government has collected in revenue has changed little.
The "rich" won't work for nothing. If you take too much of their compensation for their efforts, they just retire, cut back on work, invest in munis, or give their money away. One interesting fact in her essay is that the "rich," as measured by income, are not the same people from one year to another in the US. We have high income mobility here.
