Ruminations on music, culture, America and the world stage
Michelle Malkin reprints a Heritage Foundation graph showing which recipients of federal money would be subject to TCM’’s bank tax and which ones wouldn’t – and the correlation between that and which organizations have been paying back their bailout largesse. It’s not the same group of recipients.
. . . and San Fran Nan says it’s all no big deal. Any Pub in similar straits would have been skinned alive by now.
His latest web ad is only 31 seconds long, but that’s plenty of time to let you know how we could solve our economic mess pronto. He didn’t write the message he speaks, as you’ll see. It comes from the last Democrat president who wasn’t a Freedom-Hater.
San Fran Nan wants to see a tax on investment transactions. Not only that, she wants it to be “global,” so there’s no escaping it by conducting your sale or purchase overseas.
Any politician running for Congress in 2010 who doesn’t understand that this is war – currently being waged in an orderly, civil, Constitutional way (at least on our side), but war no less than if high-powered rifles, artillery shells and bunker busters were being employed – must get zero support. No RINOs, no Reasonable Gentlemen.
The enemy’s defeat must be total.
Dennis Prager offers six reasons why an income tax is morally problematic
The free market can’t work properly unless its participants are moral actors.
Great essay at City Journal by Steven Malanga on the set of virtues that made America the world’s premier economic giant – and a look at their steady erosion since the 1960s.
Two of the money lines come from others whom he quotes. Sociologist Max Weber: “Unlimited greed for gain is not in the least identical with capitalism, and still less its spirit.” Daniel Bell says that what went wrong was that we began “to substitute for religion or morality an aesthetic justification for life.”
In her column today, Diana West very effectively ties together several recent sociocultural developments and show how they spell “The Death of the Grownup.” She’s covering much the same ground that the always-marvelous Joseph Epstein did in a 2004 essay for The Weekly Standard called “The Perpetual Adolescent“, but these new observations of hers add substantive elements to the argument.
My article in the August issue of Our Brown County on the high-velocity Guffey family.
