Political Bytes
The government “golf cart” subsidy
This is too funny for me to have made it up. The IRS has ruled that Obama’s stimulus bill subsidizes actual, honest-to-goodness golf carts, under the “high-mileage vehicle” provision. This is causing golf-cart sales to soar. Laments Doug Bandow of the Cato Institute, “In a normal world this would be shocking, [...]
You Wanna Win a Nobel Peace Prize, Too?
As you know, Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize last Friday.
At first, I thought it was some sort of joke. And then I decided it actually was. “Wow. They’re giving them out to everyone now, aren’t they?”
The sentiment is not mine alone. For example, Ana Marie Cox, National Correspondent for Air America radio, wrote [...]
Feeling Sorry for the “Impeach Barack Obama” Group Creator
I really felt for Ellen Finnigan, because of her recent article on the “Impeach Barack Obama” Facebook group that she created. I mean profanity-laced hate-email is one thing, but when the jerk sunk to calling her a “Republican,” them’s fightin’ words. I honestly felt bad for her, felt offended on her behalf.
-TimK
P.S. Ellen is also [...]
FEAR of Failure, Success, and Obama
Jim Edwards posted a video about 6 weeks ago all about fear. (This is actually part 2 of a 2-part video.)
As you may know, I wrote about fear in my October newsletter (PDF), and our thoughts overlapped.
Watching Jim’s video, however, I began to think about the fear some of my friends have of the new [...]
Trampling on Liberty
Back in July, Barack Obama promised he would if elected president rescind any executive orders that “trample on liberty.”
As I tell my kids, don’t believe a single thing a politician says during the campaign, because–unlike the way things work out here in the real world–you can’t sue a politician for not making good on his [...]