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Mr. Kristof doesn’t explain why labor should be taxed higher than capital — in fact just few paragraphs earlier he was arguing that it was wrong for tycoons to be taxed at a lower rate than personal trainers or chauffeurs. It’s hard enough in this economy to get people to take entrepreneurial risks to create jobs and growth; I don’t see the wisdom in moving to reduce the rewards available to entrepreneurs. I suppose there’s a certain logic to the Reagan-era rates that set capital gains and ordinary income rates at the same levels. Then labor and capital are taxed the same. As for Mr. Kristof’s reference to the “low capital gains rate,” it’s worth remembering that quite a few of America’s international competitors — Hong Kong, Singapore, Switzerland — have capital gains tax rates of 0%. Compared to that, America’s 15% rate isn’t “low,” it’s high.

Everybody has a bright idea for how much tax — usually more — the Other Fellow ought to pay.

Steve Sailer is not afraid to ask the easy questions.

Exactly how smart is Obama? He is represented, by self and media lickers-and-kissers as “the smartest guy in the room.” Yet as far as I can see, there’s absolutely no documentation for this claim.

The thing is, for the purposes of politics, it doesn’t matter. The Guy On The Left is automatically considered to be the smartest guy in the room, even in the face of evidence to the contrary.

Consider AlGore — it doesn’t matter that he talks like a retard, and believes absurdities that a six-year-old would turn up his nose at, he’s by definition a Smart Guy because he’s on the Left.

Consider George W. Bush. It doesn’t matter that he graduated from Yale and from Harvard Business School, credentials that most Crustians would give their left nut (if they could find it) for; he’s not on the Left (I’m damned if I say he’s on the Right), so he’s a dumbass.

Consider John Kerry. It doesn’t matter that his GPA at Yale was less than that of George W. Bush, universally accepted as a dumbass; he’s a Smart Guy because he’s on the Left.

And the examples could be multiplied endlessly. It wouldn’t surprise me for some Crustian thumb-sucker to describe Joe Biden as ‘brilliant’, and Joe Biden couldn’t score in a Trivial Pursuit game with a block of tofu.

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Let’s start with the White House title for the speech:

Remarks by the President on the Critical Role the Manufacturing Sector Plays in the American Economy

The manufacturing does not play a particularly critical role in the US economy. Employment in manufacturing as a percentage of total employment has been falling steadily since the end of World War II. But a lot of people think there is something special about manufacturing so the title strikes a resonant chord for many people even outside manufacturing.

Like ‘family farm’, urban density, mass transit, and ‘high speed rail’, the desperate clinging to manufacturing is one of the superficially plausible but substantially reactionary fetishes of the ‘progressives’.

The Other McCain reminds us of some Inconvenient Truth.

One of the easiest things in the world to do is to tell other people how to raise their children. This is especially easy if you have no children of your own.

Got it in one.

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And, if we listened to such experts, progress would never happen.

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Congressman Clyburn is a deep-dyed black Democrat career politician, so we look to him to give us the Party Line; and he does not disappoint:

The fact of the matter is, we have on the table all kinds of revenue raises that they keep calling tax increases. How do you call closing loopholes to oil companies that are making billions of dollars in profits, closing up these loopholes that would generate $40 to $50 billion in revenue, how do you call that a tax hike? That is no tax hike. You only hike taxes when you raise rates. We are not asking anybody to raise anybody’s rates. We want us to have an effective tax collection and close these loopholes, stop giving billions of dollars in breaks to millionaires and billionaires.

‘You only hike taxes when you raise rates.’ Uh, no, Congressman, you hike taxes when the amount of tax you pay after a change is more than what you pay before the change. That’s what ‘hike taxes’ means. (I always knew that black people didn’t always speak the same brand of English as the rest of us, but I never suspected that they didn’t necessarily understand standard English, either. But here’s proof.)

The sad truth that goes unspoken here is that most of those ‘loopholes’ that give ‘billions of dollars in breaks to millionaires and billionaires’ were put in place in the tax code by Democrat Congressmen JUST LIKE YOU for ‘millionaires and billionaires’ who are OVERWHELMINGLY DEMOCRAT. Warren Buffet. Bill Gates Sr. George Soros. Al Gore. Pick a Kennedy. Pick a Rockefeller. The reason why the Koch brothers are catching such shit from the Left is that they refuse to stay on the Democrats’ Rich People Plantation. (And don’t get me started on what happens to people, like Clarence Thomas, who refuse to stay on the Democrats’ Black People Plantation.)

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Can Dick Cheney be far behind? Stay tuned.

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(Actually, the picture tells you everything you need to know. This guy is obviously the Upper Class Twit of the Year’s simple-minded younger brother, given a job on the public payroll because he hasn’t a prayer out in the real world.)

The assumption that who gets what job is somehow a ‘representative’ function in a free-market economy is, of course, unexamined.

This schlub is the Education Secretary in a British government nominally run by the Conservative Party, which I suppose just goes to show how the meaning of the term ‘conservative’ has degenerated since Lady Thatcher was PM.

So it has nothing to do with the talents of the individual pupil, and everything to do with the quality of the school. One could presumably pluck any urchin off the street, send him to Eton or Rugby, and wind up with a productive member of the Ruling Class. This common modern notion has merely to be stated to demonstrate its inherent idiocy. It is, of course, very comforting to the losers in life to embrace the notion that they’re just as good as everybody else, so that the fact that they live on the bottom is not their fault but society’s, in that they were ‘disadvantaged’ and ‘underprivileged’ through no fault of their own. (Another obviously silly notion.)

Unfortunately, these days one cannot even count on children from rich backgrounds having access to a decent education, what with the absurdities of modern educational theories having penetrated even the most famous institutions.

The use of the term ‘deprived’ accurately signals the presumption that this performance is due to the poor tykes having had their otherwise-inalienable right to good exam results ripped from their tender fingers by a nasty and inequitable social system. News Flash: Even the performance of the non-deprived pupils in the U.K. sucks big hairy ones; it’s not the inequity of the system, but the total failure of the system to do what it’s supposed to, that is the problem — a problem that doesn’t look likely to be solved any time soon, with nimrods like this in charge.

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Sens. John McCain and John Kerry introduced a resolution Tuesday that would give President Barack Obama the green light to continue limited military operations in Libya.

Which tells you everything you need to know about John McCain, the guy who could manage to lose to somebody with no experience, no skills, and no program.

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The existence of broadly or sloppily written statutes that require courts to fill in the blanks or resolve internal contradictions is hardly news. Indeed, it’s the ordinary business of statutory interpretation. But a Supreme Court decision last week — more precisely, a dissenting opinion by Justice Antonin Scalia — shone a spotlight on a more troubling subset of the problem: criminal laws that leave it up to judges to define the crime. It’s hard to imagine a more activist judicial endeavor, but it’s one with which Congress seems surprisingly comfortable.

Odd that Times columnist Linda Greenhouse should complain about this, since most of these flaws are the result of legislative activity by liberals whom she otherwise unflaggingly supports. The Supreme Court case she cites has Justice Kennedy sounding like a butthead and Justice Scalia sounding like a person of good common sense, which strikes me as about right; if she’s siding with Scalia (as it would appear) in calling Congressional laws dysfunctional, it would be the first time in her life she ever got closer to Scalia than a ten-foot pole.

And, of course, the ‘judicial activism’ that she is discussing is not the same thing as the ‘judicial activism’ of which critics of such activism speak: Roe v. Wade, for example, the poster child for ‘judicial activism’, doesn’t involve an unclear law but an imaginary Constitutional right that 5 Justices pulled straight out of their asses. So this would appear to be another attempt to muddy the waters with respect to an issue that liberals know would make them appear stupid if those waters were clear.

The Other McCain sounds the alarm.

This news is perhaps not shocking to regular readers of the New York Times‘ token “conservative” columnist, but if we ever needed smoking-gun proof, his column today is like RINO fingerprints covered with country-club DNA….

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You can read the whole thing, which I think you will agree constitutes conclusive proof of the utter uselessness of David Brooks.

Not really news, but a useful reminder.

“Me too” is not a winning platform. It never has been and never will be, and all of Brooks’s wishfulness will not convert his policy preferences into an effective politics.

And we really need a serious purge of the Republican Party or this nonsense will condemn us to ever-increasing statism until we wind up like Putin’s Russia.

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It’s not surprising (in this degenerate modern world where ‘racist’ and ‘fascist’ mean ‘something that I don’t like’) to see such hoaxes being embraced by the Usual Suspects, a coalition of the simple-minded and their tendentious masters. After all, it fits their political narrative like a glove; one of those ‘Of course it’s true! It has to be true!’ moments.

The Other McCain has some fun with the Gullible Media.

How many times do people have to make fools out of themselves over these “too good to check” stories before they wise up to the telltale clues of a hoax?

Good question. I guess being a journalism major isn’t the high-IQ thing that it purports to be.

Steve Sailer, of course, is tickled:

White guys … What would the world do without us? We’re the straw that stirs the drink.

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Whoa. That’ like Vladimir Putin accusing someone of being authoritarian.

(Is it just me, or does Rowan Atkinson Williams look like some homeless guy dressed up as an Archbishop for a play?)

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And one quickly realizes that not only is the earth full, but Thomas Friedman is also full … of it, and of himself.

This sort of thumb-sucker (to which all columnists resort when they’ve got a hangover and a deadline knocking on the door at the same time) is on a par with the rich people who clamor to have their taxes increased, while surreptitiously nudging  under the carpet the plain and simple thing they could do to help out: Rich people can always give their money to the government (but sadly never do), and people like Thomas Friedman can always remove themselves from the gene pool (but, even more sadly, never do).

One thing of which the world most certainly has an excess is people with really urgent ideas about how you can make your life worse in order to make their lives better.

She said, “somebody has to
Clean all this away.
Somebody, SOMEBODY
Has to, you see.”
Then she picked out two Somebodies.
Sally and me.
— The Cat in the Hat Comes Back

UPDATE: If we run out of living room, perhaps some of us could bunk with ol’ Tom in his 11,400 sq ft in Bethesda.

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The group, known as Patriotic Millionaires, regards the reductions signed into law by PresidentGeorge W. Bush as “one of the worst decisions that members of both parties have made in the last 50 years,” according to Erica Payne, founder of the Agenda Project, a public-policy group that is helping to organize the effort. “Increasing taxes on millionaires has to be part of the solution to how we get our fiscal house in order.”

All a lie, of course. They don’t want their taxes to increase, they want to increase the taxes of everybody else. Notice how these ‘rich people for more taxes’ groups never have anybody who voluntarily makes payments to the Treasury, which they could easily do; they just make noise about increasing taxes.

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In the continuing saga, in which Palin is being savaged and mocked, please listen to this NPR interview with Robert Allison, a professor and historian at Suffolk University, in which Allison argues that while Palin may have had some details wrong, she mostly was correct about Paul Revere’s ride, including the ringing of bells and firing of shots as warning to the British….

Just think what would have happened had she talked about visiting the same 57 states that Barack Obama visited before he became President.

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Yesterday Drudge linked to the New York Times story announcing the appointment of Jill Abramson to succeed Bill Keller as the top dog at the Times. I read the story and was amused by Abramson’s expression of delight: “In my house growing up, The Times substituted for religion. If The Times said it, it was the absolute truth.”

No surprises here.

A funny thing happened on the way to shul, as we say in Yiddish. The Times has scrubbed the quote from the story.

Sadly, no surprises here, either.

Sometimes all the news that’s fit to print goes down the Memory Hole. C’est la vie.

Steve Sailer leans on a famous ‘progressive’ blind spot.

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Amy Carter – After President Carter’s single term in office, Amy was heavily involved in political activism including various sit-ins. She was arrested during a protest at the University of Massachusetts in 1986. She attended Brown University where she was dismissed for academic reasons and then denied re-entry.

Apparently the apple doesn’t fall very far from the tree.

The article deals with Carters, Reagans, and Bushes. I guess the Clinton and Kennedy kids were just too boring.

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My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

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Though most regions of the U.S. saw declines, the Northeast saw an increase in murders (8.3%), forcible rapes (1.4%)  and aggravated assaults (0.7%).  Why that region was affected by crime more than others isn’t clear.  Perhaps it was because of the grinding poverty found in some of the area’s cities and their high cost of living.

Perhaps it’s because they’re all run by Democrats.

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I can. NPR can’t. They’d vote for him.

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Because, of course, every flag means what it means to some chick writing for the Guardian.

If you are gay and proud, Afghanistan is quite likely the last place on earth to show it publicly. How, then, are we supposed to make sense of the recent very conspicuous appearance of the rainbow-coloured gay pride symbols all over the streets of Kabul and other urban centres?

Well, perhaps because it’s not inevitable that a rainbow flag means ‘gay pride’?

Note that you didn’t hear a lot of sniggering about the Ukrainian ‘Orange Revolution’ being a bunch of Protestants — because, you know, they’re Europeans and not a Bunch of Ignorant Wogs.

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But notice how the article, by Elisha Anderson in the Detroit Free Press, is written. It tells us that Thomas wrote a “threatening message” and was charged with “ethnic intimidation.” It doesn’t say that he is a black person who wrote a note intended to sound as if it was written by a white person who was threatening to kill black people. The actual nature of Thomas’s offense is never stated in the article. We are told that he has committed “ethnic intimidation,” not that he has committed a fraud aimed at getting whites in trouble for a non-existent racist threat against blacks.

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Unfortunately, U.S. view of Muslims still not negative enough.

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Hospital emergency rooms, particularly those serving the urban poor, are closing at an alarming rate even as emergency visits are rising, according to a report published on Tuesday.

Gee, maybe those two things are connected.

Emergency departments were most likely to have closed if they served large numbers of the poor, were at commercially operated hospitals, were in hospitals with skimpy profit margins or operated in highly competitive markets, the researchers found.

In other words, they can’t afford to provide free health care to people who can’t afford to pay. Duh.

The aim of the analysis was to figure out what characteristics make a hospital emergency department likely to close, Dr. Hsia said. Rural hospitals were excluded because some are designated “critical access hospitals” and operate under federal mandate.

Hint: The laws of economics work even when you don’t want them to.

Emergency rooms are required by law to provide treatment regardless of ability to pay. “People will have coverage, but there’s a concern that there will be nowhere for them to go,” Dr. Schneider said.

My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

This entire article is like saying ‘Studies suggest that people who get hit in the head are much more likely to experience head pain than people who don’t.’ The phrase ‘thumb-sucker’ seems barely adequate.

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I’d be more impressed with ‘economists’ like this one if, just once, they supported something that wasn’t part of the market basket of contemporary ‘progressive’ policies.

And, of course, economists — once they wander into the political field — are as inclined (some would say, more inclined) to commit the fallacy of Unwarranted Aggregation. For example:

Think about that when arguing that the richest country in the world can’t afford Social Security and Medicare starting at age 65 because “everyone” in this country has seen their life expectancy increase.

The problem with this is that ‘the richest country in the world’ can’t afford anything, because ‘the richest country in the world’ doesn’t have one giant bank account that can be tapped for whatever Cool Idea is the latest fad. That’s the tedious trick that most social ‘reformers’ use so often that it’s worn grooves in everybody’s brains and so is no longer even noticed, much less protested. Calling a country ‘rich’ is just a metaphor, a way of summarizing a technical statistical aggregation so that it can be compared with other technical statistical aggregations; using it as if it were a Real Thing that can serve as a foundation for a policy recommendation is the sort of Stupid Mistake that a Real Scientist tries to avoid — which is why when Real Scientists speak, what they say is hedged around with cautions and qualifiers.

Any purported scientist that says something definite without immediately following it with ‘But of course you have to bear in mind that…’ is almost certainly talking out of his ass, and so said opinion is to be accorded no more deference than one would give to, oh, a newspaper story (i.e. not very much).

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If Repblicans were doing this in, say, New York, this same NPR would be deriding them as kooks and nutt-cases, of course.

Politically, the Tucson metro area has long been more moderate than other parts of the state.

Meaning ‘more left-wing’ in NPR-speak.

The University of Arizona plays a big role. So do government workers.

Oh, ya think?

And southern Arizona was part of Mexico until 1854. So Eckerstrom says it’s more culturally integrated.

Great, let’s sell it back to the Mexicans. Perhaps we can do the same with Travis County here in Texas, the blue zit on the ass of an otherwise sensible state.

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Hey, tenure doesn’t grow on trees, you know.

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Even terms such as wildlife are dismissed as insulting to the animals concerned – who should instead be known as “free-living”, the academics including an Oxford professor suggest.

I am not making this up.

UPDATE: Jonah Goldberg has a hard time with it, too:

I think my pro-animal views are pretty well known and I don’t want Cosmo to think I am a snake in the grass, but you’d have to be crazier than a loon, if not downright batty, to buy into this monkey business. I don’t want to rat these guys out, but they should understand that they are the canaries in the coal mine leading to the end of civilization. If we listen to this bull we’ll all go to the dogs. I mean seriously, don’t have a cow, man. I am all for treating animals humanely, but this is a horse of a different color. When I read it I felt like a deer in the headlights. This dog just won’t hunt.

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Because, you know, there’s nothing more important that we could devote space in the New York Times to discussing.

Laura Bennett, Assistant Literary Editor of The New Republic, plays the gender card.

It is easy to forget that beneath all the mentions of wide hips and “terror burps” she is actually an attractive, powerful woman. Lorne Michaels once said about her that “She has such a German work ethic … It’s superhuman, the German thing of ‘This will happen and I am going to make this happen.’ It’s just sheer force of will.” In her account of herself, however, Fey is distilled into a mild current of anxious energy, perfectly likable and inoffensive, coasting to the top of her field on a tide of awkward charm. Neurosis, in Bossypants, is an instrument for fitting Fey into what is traditionally a man’s world.

But God help you if you stray off the PC reservation.

Fey’s non-confrontational style sets her sharply apart from other women in the business, many of whom bank on shock value for humor—Sarah Silverman, for instance, whose memoir, The Bedwetter, published last year, was spiky and loud. Silverman doesn’t so much agonize inwardly about her problems as aggressively exorcise them. In her book, she wrings laughs from serious confessions about her own troubled past, with chapter titles such as “An Emotionally Disturbed Teenager Is Given a Bottomless Well of Insanely Addictive Drugs As a Means to Improve Her Life, and Other Outstanding Achievements for the New Hampshire Mental Health Community”. Silverman has turned darkness into shtick. But Fey’s memoir is wholly cleansed of any real darkness. It preempts any probing into real frailties and flaws. Of course, this is the point; it is designed to disarm.

Lesson: If you’re not a thorough bitch (and Sarah Silverman is a thorough bitch), then you’re not a Real Woman.

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The rich and powerful should be required by law to spend some time every year helping the poor and needy, the Archbishop of Canterbury suggested today.

Ever notice how some people have a lot of enthusiasm for schemes that make other people do stuff? By law? (Yeah, I’m lookin’ at YOU, Barack.)

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For this year’s Earth Day celebration, Reason.tv is proud to present “The Top Five Environmental Disasters that Didn’t Happen.” The environmental movement began in 1962 when Rachel Carson published her best-selling book Silent Spring. And ever since, chicken littles have warned us about imminent environmental disasters that ultimately didn’t happen.

Jared Diamond, Author of Guns, Germs, and Steel, discusses agriculture.

He’s agin’ it.

Russ Roberts at Café Hayek spanks Joseph Stiglitz of Vanity Fair, who does the usual ‘progressive’ trick of inappropriately lumping shit together and drawing bogus conclusions therefrom.

So compared to 25 years ago, the share of income going to the top 1% has doubled, from 12% to almost 25%. But the conclusion that Stiglitz draws, does not follow. It does not follow that their lot in life has improved considerably. There’s no “their” there. The people who were in the top 1% 25 years ago are not the same people in the top 25% today. The numbers that are quoted are two snapshots at two different times. The correct statement is that the people who are in the top 1% today earn a larger share of the income pie than the people who were in the top 1% 25 years ago.

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For those not au courant, Peter Thiel has established a bunch of fellowships to encourage bright students to start their own companies rather than prolong their adolescence in college.

Needless to say, the educational establishment is rallying ’round to nip this idea in the bud.

Sample sound bites:

Despite having appointments at five elite universities….

… not that I’m one to brag….

Peter Thiel may have made the right calls with Paypal; he certainly made a smart decision by investing in Mark Zuckerberg.  But he is no expert on education.

Uh, dude, education isn’t an end in itself, unless you’ve got a hefty trust fund or win the Tenure Track Lottery; it’s there to get a job.

The best path to success is not to drop out of college; it is to complete it.

Says the disinterested observer. This is like a government employee telling you that what you really need isn’t a job but more benefits.

Most of the deans in the audience were aghast.

My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

Well, you can predict what the deans said as well as I can. There are two concepts here: education as an entity and the education establishment, an industry created to provide that entity. Needless to say, those involved in the industry providing a product are going to do their damnedest to make sure that nobody undercuts demand for their product. Like a phone company that confuses phone call with communication, these guys confuse classroom time (that we get paid for) with education. And, like the phone company, they’re in for a rough ride in the years ahead. My heat breaks for them….

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There has been a war of language and thought going on in the copyright debate for years.  People think in language just as they speak in language, which is why content industry groups have gone to such lengths to pervert nuanced legal language into stacatto and misleading buzzwords crafted purely for public consumption.  This language war is the reason why when I Google the word “piracy”, the first page gives me the Wikipedia article for the war act of piracy and then in the news items I get a story about lawmakers wondering if search engines contribute to piracy.

Three sentences with so much intellectual dishonesty, subtle word games, and nationalism wrapped up in a tidy knot that it’s sickening.  First, to get it out of the way, note the word games being played through the legally incorrect use of the words “thieves”, “steal”, and “digital theft”.  This is the game they play with words and thought.

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Secretary of state and cattle-futures queen Hillary Clinton, super-investor Warren Buffett, and best-selling author Stephen King have all recently carped about how rich folks like them should be paying more in taxes. King recently told a Florida rally, “As a rich person, I’m paying 28 percent in taxes. What I want to ask you is, why am I not paying 50?”

Uh, because you don’t want to? Because you’re not sitting down and writing out a check to the U.S. Treasury, which you could so easily do?

All of the rich people who bitch about not being taxed enough are never confronted with the plain fact that, if they want to pay more to the government, there is no anchor on their asses preventing them from doing so.

And that reveals The Rest of the Story.

They don’t want to pay more in taxes; they want OTHER PEOPLE to pay more in taxes — specifically the ‘almost rich’ that are threatening to encroach on the luxury space of the Really Rich.

If I get a million a year and get taxed at 50%, I still have half a million left. Aspen, here I come! But if I get $200k a year and get taxed at 50%, that leaves me with $100k. Not much you can buy in Aspen on $100k a year.

The Other McCain has the goods.

She hates you, does Taffy Brodesser-Akner. She hates you with a depth of contempt you cannot possibly imagine. Your wedding was never reported by the New York Times, which is certainly reason enough for her to hate you. Also, unlike Taffy Brodesser-Akner, you probably didn’t attend a university where tuition is over $40,000 a year.

The Crust is always hiring.

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The slaughter of at least seven United Nations workers amid a murderous rampage by an Afghan mob enraged at the burning of a Koran in Florida could not have come at a worse time for the United States and Nato.

Yeah — they might be forced to wake up and face reality.

(Knew I couldn’t write that with a straight face….)

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The problem, of course, is not ‘the drug companies’, but rather the FDA; the drug companies are merely letting the government do the heavy lifting for them.

Since Slate is a Voice of the Crust, however, it can’t pin the blame on Big Government where it belongs — no, it has to be the fault of Evil Corporate Greed.

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We find out that the four had snuck into Libya from Egypt without visas. These idiots put themselves in the middle of an African civil war without visas.

Well, you know ‘journalists’ — they think they’re bulletproof.

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Well, that’s a relief.

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The decision of a news reporter at the Washington Post to go to work for Vice President Obama as communications director is raising some eyebrows. Yahoo! News reports that the reporter “was still covering legislative battles and Biden’s role up until a few weeks ago.” A commenter at Politico suggests, “Her reporting on Biden was basically a ‘job tryout.'”

My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

Right now, CNN is expanding its coverage of the Libyan situation by interviewing … Bernard Henri-Levi.

Yeah, when there’s a war on, the first guy I want to hear from is a French ‘writer & philosopher’.

The talent pool from which CNN recruits is getting more and more shallow as we watch….

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It’s been a rough year. First came the firing of a black man, Juan Williams, by extremely white liberals for a frank and innocent remark deemed to be racist according to extremely white liberals’ interpretation of racism.

As last week’s “sting”-slash-luncheon attests, NPR’s motto should be, “Frankly, we don’t care for much of the public.”

Especially that, that “Middle America.”

The Other McCain kicks over a rock.

An unfairness, a bias — call it what you will, but Regular Joe sees stuff like that and gets the sneaking feeling that all the Really Important Big Shots have made a secret deal behind closed doors: “Hey, let’s not report this stuff in a way that might make Regular Joe angry, because everybody knows those ignorant yahoos are just a bunch of racists looking for an excuse to do terrible things to brown people.”

Whatever you think about Regular Joe, however, he’s not so stupid that he doesn’t know the smell of bullshit when he gets downwind of a big fresh steaming pile of it.