H/T ARRA News Service: By Dick Morris & Eileen McGann : President Lyndon Johnson's administration was known for his War on Poverty. President Obama's will become notable for his War on Prosperity. We're speaking, of course, of Obama's plans to hike income taxes on the most wealthy 2 or 3% of the...

Santa Claus is not exactly a libertarian icon. How could he be? It's pretty obvious what the guy is all about. He dresses all in red, and every year gives away billions of dollars of stuff, manufactured in his workers' commune, using forced elf labor, located in an area that is in suspicious proximi...

This politician cares, allegedly. He cares deeply. And will work the sick until they drop. If he can find work for them, that is. Image by Learn4Life via Flickr There’s something very odd about the timing of the government’s plans to coerce single mothers with children as young as one, a...

Although the dentists are now calling themselves “Dr�, we doctors do not call ourselves “dentist�. We did have a compulsory one week lecture course during medical training covering the whole of dentistry, but I have no desire to get out my Black and Decker and attempt some root-canal treatme...

screw the poor... in fact screw anybody who isn't a pampered heir of the ruling class... chris floyd, posting in counterpunch, comments on mitt romney's speech to the conservative political action conference on 7 february... [from Romney's speech]The threat to our culture comes from within. In the 1...

The Republicans should nominate Mike Huckabee. Out of a seriously retarded group of candidates, The Huck comes closest to what the Republican Party has become. Ok, he was a little weak on beating up on Mexicans, but now that he's got Jim Gilchrist, Supreme Commander of the Minutemen, on board, past ...

In presidential elections, I vote for the Republican. It’s a no-brainer. Democrats are for more government and more social control (except for woman aborting fetuses and gays getting married). Hard core liberals, as a group, are very intolerant. Just go to any of the big lefty blogs and read t...

So, the government has 'lost' the personal details of millions of families in the UK. Ho Hum. This 'crisis' (the most over used word of the age) serves to demonstrate only two things to me, one surprising, one not. The unsurprising is that governments tend towards incompetence, all governments. The ...