insider online : "A good business climate encourages existing businesses to grow, people to start new businesses, and national and international businesses to invest in an area. A poor business climate does the opposite."
1. Keep total tax burden low.
2. Keep taxes on businesses low.
3. Avoid corporate welfare.
4. Remove privileges enjoyed by labor unions.
5. Lower or eliminate minimum wages.
6. Reduce workers compensation costs.
7. Keep housing affordable.
8. Reduce the burden of regulations.
9. Discourage lawsuit abuse.
10. Attract members of the creative class.
Do not expect these principles to be adopted by the current administration.
Saturday, January 15, 2011
Are we as free as we once were?
Economic Freedom Is Foundation Of All Other Freedoms "Next Monday, January 17, is the 50th anniversary of President Dwight Eisenhower’s farewell address. The speech is most commonly remembered for President Eisenhower’s warning about the “unwarranted influence” of the “military-industrial complex,” but often left out of the story is Ike’s warning about profligate federal spending as well: “We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage. We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow.” Ike went on to call for “balance in and among national programs” including “balance between the clearly necessary and the comfortably desirable.”"
I think we are now at the stage where opposing the "comfortably desirable" is likened to genocide and/ or racism by liberals.
Why Does Religious Freedom Matter? "The American model of religious liberty takes a strongly positive view of religious practice, both private and public. While it does not mean that anything and everything done in the name of religious liberty is not subject to the rule of law, it does mean that the law ought to make as much room as possible for the practice of religious faith. Far from privatizing religion, it assumes that religious believers and institutions will take active roles in society, including engaging in politics and policy-making and helping form the public’s moral consensus. In fact, the American Founders considered religious engagement in shaping the public morality essential to ordered liberty and the success of their experiment in self-government." Jennifer Marshall
Religious Freedom On Trial At Mt. Soledad "The Ninth Circuit Appeals Court panel ruled that the 43-foot Mt. Soledad Cross, which has occupied a seaside hill in La Jolla, California for over 50 years, violates the Establishment Clause of the Constitution."...
"Despite the cross’s memorializing purpose and its incorporation into a national tribute to fallen soldiers, the Ninth Circuit wrote in their opinion: “The history and absolute dominance of the Cross are not mitigated by the belated efforts to add less significant secular elements to the Memorial.""
What now about the thousands of crosses on soldiers' graves around this country and in Europe? The American Civil Liberties Union seems to prefer the population have fewer civil liberties rather than offend even one person. Yet strangely, when I wrote to a TV program that I found their many uses of the exclamation, "oh, my god!" to be extremely hurtful, they wrote back saying, basically, tough toenails.
I think we are now at the stage where opposing the "comfortably desirable" is likened to genocide and/ or racism by liberals.
Why Does Religious Freedom Matter? "The American model of religious liberty takes a strongly positive view of religious practice, both private and public. While it does not mean that anything and everything done in the name of religious liberty is not subject to the rule of law, it does mean that the law ought to make as much room as possible for the practice of religious faith. Far from privatizing religion, it assumes that religious believers and institutions will take active roles in society, including engaging in politics and policy-making and helping form the public’s moral consensus. In fact, the American Founders considered religious engagement in shaping the public morality essential to ordered liberty and the success of their experiment in self-government." Jennifer Marshall
Religious Freedom On Trial At Mt. Soledad "The Ninth Circuit Appeals Court panel ruled that the 43-foot Mt. Soledad Cross, which has occupied a seaside hill in La Jolla, California for over 50 years, violates the Establishment Clause of the Constitution."...
"Despite the cross’s memorializing purpose and its incorporation into a national tribute to fallen soldiers, the Ninth Circuit wrote in their opinion: “The history and absolute dominance of the Cross are not mitigated by the belated efforts to add less significant secular elements to the Memorial.""
What now about the thousands of crosses on soldiers' graves around this country and in Europe? The American Civil Liberties Union seems to prefer the population have fewer civil liberties rather than offend even one person. Yet strangely, when I wrote to a TV program that I found their many uses of the exclamation, "oh, my god!" to be extremely hurtful, they wrote back saying, basically, tough toenails.
Friday, January 14, 2011
Making It Up As We Go Along
Victor Davis Hanson "Gone is Bush the great Constitution-shredder. Tribunals, renditions, Predators, wiretaps, Iraq, Guantanamo, preventative detention — these are now either embraced or expanded. Iraq (“the surge is not working”) is Obama’s “greatest achievement.” The public I think believes Obama demagogued all those protocols for political advantage, then as commander-in-chief looked at the intelligence, and quietly adopted them all. Okay, politicians do that. But how can one “virtually” oppose all that he embraces? Does he just make things up as he goes along, assuming we all have collective amnesia?"Federal policies failing the Central Valley
Hot Air "The crisis in the Central Valley comes directly from the application of the Endangered Species Act to the Delta smelt, one of a number of bait fish species indigenous to the area. The order by a federal judge relying on that law cut off irrigation to a massive area of arable land and created a vast wasteland out of a farming bonanza, all to protect one species of inedible fish. Congress needs to curtail the ESA and get the water turned back on in the valley."
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| calwatchdog |
Blame Righty: A Condensed History
Michelle Malkin "That same month, a sick, evil man named Jiverly Voong ambushed an immigration center in Binghamton, N.Y. Recently fired from his job, Voong murdered 13 people, critically wounded four others, and then committed suicide. The instant psychologists of the Left knew nothing about the disgruntled man of Vietnamese descent and undetermined political affiliation. But within hours of the shooting, commenters at liberal mega-website Huffington Post had overwhelmingly convicted GOP Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, the National Rifle Association, Fox News, Lou Dobbs, and yours truly. Liberal radio host Alan Colmes pointed his finger at the “huge anti-immigrant backlash in this country” — never mind that tens of millions of legal immigrants and naturalized citizens have coped with hardship, overcome racism, and embraced assimilation without going bloody bonkers."
Let Me Be Equally Clear "Let me be equally clear. I am not arguing that the shooting caused the media to be recklessly irresponsible and wrong in its coverage of the cause of the shooting. It did not. But, separate from the Tucson shooting incident, now is a time to pause and publicly discuss the degraded state of mainstream media reporting and its effect on the health of our democracy."
Tucson and the Failure of the Political Class "The stampede to blame this terrible incident on a political movement that appears to represent more people than the traditional Republican and Democratic parties is horrifying, though perhaps not surprising. The attempt of Paul Krugman...to blame this shooting on what one saw “just by watching the crowds at McCain-Palin rallies” in the 2008 election campaign is the lowest and deepest excavation on public taste the Times has conducted since the 1985 headline about President Reagan’s planned visit to Bitburg, Germany: “Reagan Likens Nazi War Dead to Concentration Camp Victims.”"
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Krugman? "Clearly, the MSM now has no justification to continue to make bogus charges against Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, Fox News, or conservatives in general. And Krugman and Olbermann and the rest are in a pickle. This is a potential public relations disaster for the left and they are in the middle of it. Fortunately, they have the MSM to cover-up for them."It would be media suicide for Krugman and Olbermann to admit they were wrong. Consequently, they have only one choice: continue the lie."
Ed Driscoll at Pajamas Media
Let Me Be Equally Clear "Let me be equally clear. I am not arguing that the shooting caused the media to be recklessly irresponsible and wrong in its coverage of the cause of the shooting. It did not. But, separate from the Tucson shooting incident, now is a time to pause and publicly discuss the degraded state of mainstream media reporting and its effect on the health of our democracy."
Tucson and the Failure of the Political Class "The stampede to blame this terrible incident on a political movement that appears to represent more people than the traditional Republican and Democratic parties is horrifying, though perhaps not surprising. The attempt of Paul Krugman...to blame this shooting on what one saw “just by watching the crowds at McCain-Palin rallies” in the 2008 election campaign is the lowest and deepest excavation on public taste the Times has conducted since the 1985 headline about President Reagan’s planned visit to Bitburg, Germany: “Reagan Likens Nazi War Dead to Concentration Camp Victims.”"
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Krugman? "Clearly, the MSM now has no justification to continue to make bogus charges against Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, Fox News, or conservatives in general. And Krugman and Olbermann and the rest are in a pickle. This is a potential public relations disaster for the left and they are in the middle of it. Fortunately, they have the MSM to cover-up for them.Ed Driscoll at Pajamas Media
Conservatives Criticize Free T-Shirts At Tucson Memorial Service (Updated)
TPM "The shirts, which bear the same logo that adorns other items from the event -- including press passes, signage and volunteer t-shirts -- were placed on many of the seats in the lower sections of the arena when tonight's capacity crowd walked in. "
Theme of “Together We Thrive” T-shirt came from Obama’s Organizing for America "University of Arizona brass did not originate the “Together We Thrive” T-shirt. They merely recycled it for Obama—and recycled it in time for what should have been a dignified Memorial for the dead.
"If you were a mourner who took home a “Together We Thrive” T-shirt have a look at the bottom of your shirt. “Rocking America and Rocking the Vote” is a common theme of the DNC, and it’s right there on your Memorial T-shirt memento.
"Welcome to the era of Obama, where cheering and standing ovations, for the first time in history, became part of the Requiem for the Dead."
This is what the Democrats have become.
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| Weasel Zippers |
Theme of “Together We Thrive” T-shirt came from Obama’s Organizing for America "University of Arizona brass did not originate the “Together We Thrive” T-shirt. They merely recycled it for Obama—and recycled it in time for what should have been a dignified Memorial for the dead.
"If you were a mourner who took home a “Together We Thrive” T-shirt have a look at the bottom of your shirt. “Rocking America and Rocking the Vote” is a common theme of the DNC, and it’s right there on your Memorial T-shirt memento.
"Welcome to the era of Obama, where cheering and standing ovations, for the first time in history, became part of the Requiem for the Dead."
This is what the Democrats have become.
Random Thoughts from Neal Boortz
Nealz Nuze "....•People will scream louder and longer over a 15 cent increase in the price of their gas than they will about the loss of another freedom."....
"....•If you're in a bar, and some deranged killer walks in with a gun ... do you want him to be the only one in that bar with a gun?"....
"....•If you're in a bar, and some deranged killer walks in with a gun ... do you want him to be the only one in that bar with a gun?"....
The answer is: Those without shame
Lee Cary "When the October 2002 memorial service for the late Senator Paul Wellstone (D. MN) turned into a political pep rally, many were offended. But who realistically expected it to be anything other than that? In that extravaganza, dignity was only moderately conspicuous by its absence. To paraphrase Rahm Emanuel: The goal is to never pass up an opportunity to take partisan advantage of a prominent politician's death.
"It's happened again, this hijacking of mourning for political purposes, but this time the assault on dignity is more egregious. This time the props are innocent murdered civilians. And, this time they include a little girl."
Via American Thinker
"It's happened again, this hijacking of mourning for political purposes, but this time the assault on dignity is more egregious. This time the props are innocent murdered civilians. And, this time they include a little girl."
Via American Thinker
Hypocrisy, the Liberal God
Russ Vaughn "For every niggling example of conservative excitement to violence through political rhetoric there are multiple liberal transgressions where the vitriol and exhortations to violence are simply unmistakable or open to any mitigating interpretation. They don't tiptoe around the issue; they come right out and advocate murder and mayhem. Lest any liberal challenge me here, which I welcome and will gladly substantiate with example after example, I rest my case on this: "...
Massacre, followed by libel "Furthermore, the available evidence dates Loughner's fixation on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords to at least 2007, when he attended a town hall of hers and felt slighted by her response. In 2007, no one had heard of Sarah Palin. Glenn Beck was still toiling on Headline News. There was no Tea Party or health-care reform. The only climate of hate was the pervasive post-Iraq campaign of vilification of George W. Bush, nicely captured by a New Republic editor who had begun an article thus: "I hate President George W. Bush. There, I said it." " Charles Krauthammer
Massacre, followed by libel "Furthermore, the available evidence dates Loughner's fixation on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords to at least 2007, when he attended a town hall of hers and felt slighted by her response. In 2007, no one had heard of Sarah Palin. Glenn Beck was still toiling on Headline News. There was no Tea Party or health-care reform. The only climate of hate was the pervasive post-Iraq campaign of vilification of George W. Bush, nicely captured by a New Republic editor who had begun an article thus: "I hate President George W. Bush. There, I said it." " Charles Krauthammer
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Gasoline’s prepping for a return to $4 a gallon
Marketwatch "Gasoline, diesel markets have plenty of excuses for price spikes."
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| http://terrellaftermath.com/ |
House set to vote on healthcare repeal
Reuters "The repeal vote would fulfill a campaign promise of Republicans who won control of the House in November elections. But the measure will likely die in the Senate, where Democrats remain in control.OBAMACARE BACK IN SPOTLIGHT NEXT WEEK "The Democrats believe they have a potent new weapon in their quest for ever-larger government. As soon as the language become heated - which is to say as soon as the Republicans start making some good rhetorical points - the Democrats will start screaming that the Republicans are trying to incite violence. The Democrats and the big-government left would have us to deny and repudiate our very Constitution in order to avoid language that might offend the super-sensitive among us. Sorry --- not in my camp. I will defend, not deny the Constitution ... an act that puts me at direct odds with most Democrats." Neal Boortz
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