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Republican Scott Brown’s victory in the special election to fill Ted Kennedy’s vacant Senate seat boggles the mind. Massachusetts is a Democratic bastion. Brown’s vanquished opponent, Democrat Martha Coakley, is a statewide office holder (Attorney General) and well-known compared to Brown. Just three weeks ago Coakley enjoyed a double-digit lead in polls that seemed to [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Limiting Government, Obama Presidency at 12:58 PM UTC
Few things can unite Americans these days. Political, religious and social issues have produced harsh, ragged battle lines across which ugly accusations and threats are regularly hurled. The 21st century may become America’s most acrimonious period, yet there is one thing virtually every citizen agrees on: 2009 was a terrible year. It’s taken the worst [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Holiday Musings, Limiting Government, Military, Taxation at 7:26 AM UTC
Quick, which state has a part-time legislature, no income tax, and a booming economy? Kevin D. Williamson explains why Texas leads the nation in so many positive catagories, providing a model for troubled states like California and the nation. The following article appeared in National Review under the title “Going Alamo: Why jobs and companies [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Best Of the Web, Limiting Government, Taxation at 3:57 PM UTC
An enduring theme of human history is the elusive quest for individual liberty. Throughout the ages, the vast majority of people have lived under the rule of autocratic leaders. Individuals were elevated to favored positions or put to a cruel death based on nothing more than the whim of a potentate of one kind or another. In the lion’s share of all societies, [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Core Values, Limiting Government, Obama Presidency at 5:59 PM UTC
A “Boston Tea Party” commenced yesterday at the Pond in Temecula, one of thousands of such events organized nationwide. An estimated 2,500 tax-protesters participated, far surpassing earlier predictions of a turnout in the range of 300 to 400. Carrying a variety of hand-made signs and American flags, local citizens jammed all four corners at the intersection of Ynez and Rancho California. [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Limiting Government, Taxation at 7:39 PM UTC
In the immediate aftermath of the first successful Communist revolution, true believers in Russia eagerly awaited the emergence of the promised “new order.” Marxist doctrine held that after a brief period of adjustment known as “the dictatorship of the proletariat,” class distinctions would melt away and the endless era of socialist nirvana would emerge. Then [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Communism, Limiting Government, Politics at 5:21 PM UTC
Readers of the Los Angeles Times were shocked last Friday [January 30, 2009] by a full-page ad appearing on page A-10. The CATO Institute had the audacity to challenge President Obama’s assertion that government intervention is essential if the American economy is to recover. The ad was signed by over 200 economists, and the page contained the following [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Economics, Government Waste, Limiting Government, Obama Presidency at 6:51 PM UTC
In 1982 President Ronald Reagan asked the Grace Commission to identify waste in government and ways to eliminate it. The commission’s much debated report, issued in January of 1984, provided a shocking inventory of bureaucratic squandering, highlighting fiscal malfeasance of epic proportions. Hundreds of billions of dollars were being wasted, claimed the commissioners, and if massive adjustments were [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Government Waste, Limiting Government at 5:18 PM UTC
The circus known as Illinois politics reached new heights of absurdity today. Senate leaders who just yesterday refused to seat Roland Burris now are singing a different tune. Gone also are vows from Illinois state leaders to block any appointment made by disgraced but still sitting Governor Blagojevich. Could it be everyone involved read Erwin [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Budgets, Limiting Government, Obama Presidency at 3:42 PM UTC
One of the most consistent and vitriolic criticisms of the Bush administration concerned its hasty dismantling of individual liberties. President Bush, we were repeatedly told, did more to undo Constitutional freedoms than any five former presidents combined. Writing for the Baltimore Chronicle & Sentinel, Chuck Baldwin wrote in February of 2005 that “the Bush administration has done more to [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Cultural Insanity, Limiting Government at 5:31 PM UTC