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Democrats want to impose “surtax” to finance health care – WSJ.com

A new study by the Kaufman Foundation finds that small business entrepreneurs have led America out of its last seven post-World War II recessions. They also generate about two of every three new jobs during a recovery. The more the Obama Democrats reveal of their policies, the more it’s clear that they prize income redistribution above all else, including job creation and economic growth.

via Democrats want to impose “surtax” to finance health care – WSJ.com.

PRUDEN: Franken, a clown for all seasons, arrives in time – Washington Times

One member of the Minnesota canvassing board, a state Supreme Court justice, conceded that some ballots were probably counted twice, but he said there was not much anybody could do about it. In more than 25 precincts, officials counted more ballots than actual voters; this was put down to well-meant enthusiasm. If everyone has a duty to vote, who could scold a voter for going above and beyond the call of duty?

via PRUDEN: Franken, a clown for all seasons, arrives in time – Washington Times.

Black-White Gap in Jobless Rate Widens in New York City – NYTimes.com

Economists said they were not certain why so many more blacks were losing their jobs in New York, especially when a large share of the layoffs in the city have been in fields where they are not well represented, like finance and professional services. But in those sectors, the economists suggested that blacks may have had less seniority when layoffs occurred. And black workers hold an outsize share of the jobs in retailing and other service industries that have been shrinking as consumers curtail their spending.

via Black-White Gap in Jobless Rate Widens in New York City – NYTimes.com.

Some simple math for Barry Little League, hurt the employers and buyers and you’ll always end up hurt the only citizens you care about, your voting handouts.

Low taxes for all is the only way, but leave alone learning in time, you’ll just never learn. 3.5 years to go before we can get some basic IQ back in office.

Obama & Crew: Excellence Versus Nothing – HUMAN EVENTS

It is no wonder to me why President Obama believes and does what he does: he has zero experience in the private sector, zero executive experience, and even very limited experience in government.

via Obama & Crew: Excellence Versus Nothing – HUMAN EVENTS.

It’s Now or Never on Nationalized Health Care – HUMAN EVENTS

One of the most basic precepts of medicine is that you cannot effectively treat the problem until you get the diagnosis right. Yet Democrats have terribly misdiagnosed the disease in American health care. As with nearly everything, they have decided the problem in our health care delivery system is a shortage of government intervention.

via It’s Now or Never on Nationalized Health Care – HUMAN EVENTS.

A Government Failure, Not a Market Failure – WSJ.com

This was a market failure, we are told, and the promise of capitalism has always been that the self-correcting mechanisms built into the system would preclude the possibility of a systemic market failure.

But the housing bubble only burst after government subsidies pushed house prices up so fast that marginal buyers could no longer afford to chase prices even higher. A bubble created by rigged financial markets and a government-sponsored obsession with home ownership is not a result of market failure, but rather, a result of bad public policy. The belief that home ownership, per se, is such a benefit that no amount of government support could be too great and no pace at which home prices rise could be too fast is the root of the crisis.

There was no market failure.

via A Government Failure, Not a Market Failure – WSJ.com.

Morning Bell: The Left’s Assault on the Declaration of Independence » The Foundry

But denying the truth of America’s principles for the sake of “change” can make no claim to progress at all—a point made with unsurpassed clarity by Calvin Coolidge learn more here on the 150th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence in 1926: “If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions.”

We don’t need to remake America, or discover new and untested principles. The change we need is not the rejection of America’s principles but a great renewal of these permanent truths about man, politics, and liberty—the foundational principles and constitutional wisdom that are the true roots of our country’s greatness.

Read the full article here…  Morning Bell: The Left’s Assault on the Declaration of Independence » The Foundry.