Chris Christie gets it

Howard Dean and Fox News

Dean: Government Should Pick Guests on Fox & MSNBC Because Ignorant Americans Don’t Know What’s Going On

The scary part is that Dr. Dean is correct on some things. Many if not most Americans are ignorant of what the Constitution says. Dr. Dean will mention the 14th and 17th amendments so here's a refresher:

14th Amendment: 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.
The 14th Amendment was passed in 1857, right after the Civil War, to make sure that former slaves and their progeny would be citizens.

These days the 14th Amendment is used by proponents of illegal immigration as a way for illegals to have a baby in the USA, which is declared a US Citizen for being born in the USA, and then they have an Anchor Baby and a legal excuse to stay. 

This concept ignores the "and subject to the jurisdiction thereof" phrase, but, hey, what do intention and true meaning count for when there is a political objective?

17th Amendment: The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. 

Sounds reasonable, right? What's the big deal? Well, prior to this amendment, the State(s) (usually the Governor(s)) selected the Senators. Changing it to an election was a huge step away from States Rights and towards centralized, nationalized government.

For the record, there are a lot more liberals making regular contributions on Fox News now than there ever will be on MSNBC.

For those keeping score at home, Dr. Howard Dean is the Chairman of the Democrat National Committee. NewsBusters did a great article on this topic here.

Heeeeerrrsss HOWARD!!! 

This is the full text of the audio in the video:

What would I do about the Media? Oh, God, I don't know. We have a strong First Amendment which has served us well in this country. Um, you know, what I think I would do, the first thing I would do is I would bring back the Fairness Doctrine so you couldn't have a Fox flooze which makes stuff up and is a propaganda outlet you would actually have to have some sentient human beings talking to the other side. And MSNBC would have to do the same they would have to have conservatives on there too. I think that's much better for the country. I mean this business, this division, where you can pick your poison and then poison yourself in the media, it's not so good for the country. So I would bring back the Fairness Doctrine. The level of ignorance about what is in the Constitution is just appalling. It's just incredible. I got such a kick out of the Tea Party that wanted us to enforce the Constitution, then when somebody pointed out what the 17th and 14th Amendment said, well, we can get rid of those.People, Americans don't know what is going on and therefore the Media can have their way with them intellectually.

Tax Cuts for Millionaires and Billionaires

I blame Mark Levin for this post. It is all Mark Levin's fault. I was reading his wonderful book, "Liberty and Tyranny". On page 64, in the chapter "On the Free Market," he clearly wrote out who paid what in taxes. But it didn't really click. So I followed the footnote to the reference in the back of the book, which conveniently listed the web page where the data was obtained. Great stuff, but I am not a numbers guy. So I wondered if it was possible to graph it out and get a better understanding.

When politicians talk about how they won't approve tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires, it is doubtful they have a clear picture of the tax code.

In the graph on the right, there are 4 shades of green. All of the green together represents the top 20% of earners. Notice that all of the green in the right hand column shows that the top 20% of earners pay 86% of the taxes. Hmmm . . .

The top 1% of earners earn 18% of the money and pay 39% of income taxes.

A point of interest is that the Tax column adds up to 104%. It is the way the data is presented in the Tax table. It is because the red part of the graph, the bottom 40% of earners earn 13% of the income and pay no taxes, but instead get money out. Interestingly, what they get out is about the same as what the middle 20% of earners put in.

Another interesting fact is that the middle 20% of earners earn 13% of the income. The 20% above them earn 20% of the income. Looking at that, it would seem that "The System" is pretty fair and equitable.

Whoopi on Terrorism

I wanted to put this up because no matter how many times I watch it, I still can't quite parse out what Whoopi is trying to say about Radical Islam Terrorist Attacks.



Tim McVeigh did a despicable thing. Once. Radical Muslims keep hitting us. Check out the Frontline article about how many times we were hit between 1979 and 1988. That list leaves out the attack on the Cole, the 1993 WTC attack, and 9/11.

Taxes and Revenue

For those who have wondered, if more taxes raise more money, then is 100% the ideal tax rate, here are some answers.

It was hard to believe that, in all the years that the government has been collecting taxes and trying to balance budgets, that someone had not looked in to what might be the ideal tax rate. It turns out that someone did. Artur Laffer developed something called the Laffer Curve which seeks to define the ideal tax rate. Before writing this post, I did a Google Search for "Laffer Curve". Not surprisingly, there are people who think it is accurate, and people who think it is bogus.

On the Conservapedia site, there is a great quote from JFK. President John F. Kennedy explained the principle behind the Laffer Curve in his address to the Economic Club of New York on December 14, 1962: “In short, it is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high today and tax revenues are too low and the soundest way to raise the revenues in the long run is to cut the rates now.” 

There is a great web page that attempts to define the ideal point on the Laffer Curve. On it there are three great videos describing the Laffer Curve. Kudos to Dan Mitchell for seeing the need and making the videos. Dan Mitchell is a member of the Cato Institute.

Part One: The Theory of the Laffer Curve:



Part Two: Reviewing the Evidence.



Part Three: Dynamic Scoring.



Big Government Is Not Stimulus: Why Keynes Was Wrong

Charles Krauthammer on Election Night

Charles Krauthammer offers some views on Election Night before the polls closed.

Why does your vote count?

Your vote counts in so many ways and says so many things.

Should we laugh or cry?

I confess. When I saw this video for the first time, I kept yelling at the TV, "Keynes was an economist !!!"

Well, it seems that at least some of the folks at the John Stewart "Restoring Sanity" rally are not the most informed people around. Heck, even the guy who 'got it' didn't quite get it. For the record, President Obama is definitely a Keynesian Economist. On steroids.

Are these the same people who look down their noses at the Tea Partiers?

O'Donnell has trouble airing 30-minute TV ad in Delaware

It seems that Christine O'Donnell produced a 30-minute documentary campaign ad. The public access station forgot to air it - twice.

Clck here for the Washington Post Article

Go Democrats!

Just in case any more proof was needed that the media in this country are a division of the Democrat Party, check out this little mistake the local TV 'reporters' made with a Joe Miller appearance. Click here.

Remember, reporters are educated professionals who are supposedly trained to be objective . . .

Jim McGovern says Constitution is wrong

This is Jim McGovern at Shrewsbury High School saying that the United States Constitution is wrong..



Jim McGovern is repeating the Democrat Party Line about money and free speech. He is referring to the Supreme Court decision in "Citizens United versus the Federal Communications Commission".

Democrats decry the decision because it gives corporations the same ability to contribute that Unions have always had. It levels the playing field. People like Jim McGovern think a level playing field is a bad thing.

Google Search page for "citizens united supreme court"

Joy Behar again . . .

Let's see . . .

Joy Behar calls Sharon Angle a bitch.
Sharon Angle responds by sending Joy flowers.
Joy Behar responds by calling Sharon a bitch again and says Sharon is still going to hell.
Judgmental? Joy(less) Behar? Surely, only hateful, racist, conservatives are judgmental. But Joy knows who is going to hell.

Levity break . . .

Time for a laugh. I thoroughly enjoyed this GEICO commercial when it first aired. Then it disappeared for a while. Fortunately, it is airing again and it sneaked in to one of my Talking Head shows.

All Juan, all the time.

I have been a little slow getting to the Juan Williams situation. I have some videos of my own that I wanted to edit and upload before I posted. That is taking longer than expected, so it is time to go with what is there and add more as it gets done.

Juan Williams was fired from National Public Radio, allegedly for something he said on Fox's Bill O'Reilly show. It is probably much closer to the truth to say that he was fired from NPR for appearing on Fox at all. Those tolerant, compassionate people on the left HATE Fox News. The question now is, are Mara Liasson's days numbered?

This first video is Juan telling Fox about his firing. Look how shocked he is. He thought those people at NPR were his friends.



You will hear the contents of this next video referred to in later video, so this is here to show what they are talking about.



This next is Juan on the Bill O'Reilly Factor, Thursday October 21, 2010:



This next video is Juan HOSTING the Bill O'Reilly Factor on Friday, October 22:



This next is Juan being discussed on Special Report with Bret Baier, Thursday, October 22:



This next is a video from Inside Washington. I was especially looking forward to this show because;
1) It is on PBS, the television arm of NPR,
2) I love Charles Krauthammer's commentary,
3) Nina Totenburg is on the panel with Charles.

Keep in mind, analysts analyze, journalists report, supposedly without opinion. This is what Charles means when he says the bar should be higher for Nina (a 'journalist' for NPR) than for Juan Williams, who was an analyst for NPR. But Nina still has a job at NPR. What's the difference? She doesn't appear on Fox . . .





More to come . . .

Enemie's List

The nation was aghast when it was discovered that President Richard Nixon had an 'enemies list'.

Now it looks like President Barak Obama has an Enemies List.

Who do you suppose could be the President's enemies?

What does it mean when the President of the United States talks about citizens of the United States this way?

Joy Behar

I love to watch Joy Behar. She is such a shining example of liberal tolerance. Just imagine how wonderful the world would be if everyone were like Joy Bahar.

New figures detail depth of unemployment misery

From the Huffington Post, October 25, 2010.

Quote of the day

"For those who believe, no explanation is necessary. For those who do not believe, no explanation is possible." Joseph Dunninger

Compassion & Respect to end violence

Video Experiment

Video is an interesting thing on Blogger. I tried several different formats and uploaded them to this blog. I really wasn't happy with the quality of any of them. For the record, for those who try to upload files to Blogger, Blogger accepts AVI, MPEG, QuickTime, Real, Windows Media files that are less than 100 meg.

Democrat RI Gubunatorial Candiate Frank Caprio

For the record, Frank Caprio is one of the Good Guys.

He has the misfortune of being a John F. Kennedy Democrat in a Barak Obama world.

Just the facts, ma'am.

Sent by a good friend in Michigan:

Get your facts right

The day the Democrats took over was not January 22nd 2009
-- it was actually January 3rd 2007.

The day the Democrats took over the House of Representatives & Senate, the start of the 110th Congress.

The Democratic Party controlled a majority in both chambers for the first time since the end of the 103rd Congress in 1995.

"For those of you who are listening to the liberals propagating the fallacy that everything is "Bush's Fault," think about this:

January 3rd, 2007 was the day the Democrats took over the Senate and the Congress:

At the time:
The DOW Jones closed at 12,621.77
The GDP for the previous quarter was 3.5%
The Unemployment rate was 4.6%

George Bush's Economic policies SET A RECORD of 52 STRAIGHT MONTHS of JOB CREATION!

Remember the day.

January 3rd, 2007 was the day that Barney Frank took over the House Financial Services Committee and Chris Dodd took over the Senate Banking Committee.

The economic meltdown that happened 15 months later was in what part of the economy?
BANKING AND FINANCIAL SERVICES!

THANK YOU DEMOCRATS for taking us from 12,000 DOW, 3.5 GDP and 4.6% Unemployment to this CRISIS by (among MANY other things) dumping 5-6 TRILLION Dollars of toxic loans on the economy from YOUR Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac FIASCOS!

(BTW: Bush asked Congress 17 TIMES to stop Fannie & Freddie - starting in 2001 because it was financially risky for the US economy).

And who took the THIRD highest pay-off from Fannie Mae AND Freddie Mac?

OBAMA

And who fought against reform of Fannie and Freddie?

OBAMA & the Democratic Congress

So when some idiot tries to blame Bush,
REMEMBER JANUARY 3rd, 2007 THE DAY THE DEMOCRATS TOOK OVER!

Bush may have been in the car but the Democrats were in charge of the gas pedal and steering wheel they were driving.

"It's not that liberals don't know anything, it's just that so much of what they know is wrong."
-Ronald Reagan

Juan Williams Responds To Being Told To Go "Back To The Porch"

A new place.

I recently started another Blog to vent on other things and discovered how far advanced Blogs had become. I am really looking forward to putting things here to share with folks who might be interested.