[Uncle Ike]

I’ve long considered Charles Murray to be a (capital ‘t’) Thinker in the Thomas Sowell class...

I surely hope that his latest work isn’t as glib and superficial as Rich Lowry tries to make it sound...

[ClearCase_guy]

If the power of the Left can be broken, if we can return to a Limited Government, then we might hope also for a Christian revival in this country. It would do us a world of good, and fix many social ills.

[Jack Hammer]

Ronald Reagan famously said (quite some time ago), “Government is not the solution to problems, government IS the problem!”

He did his best to cut its size, bashed his shins against entrenched interests, and the behemoth has been growing ever since.

At this point, there’s not a whole lot anybody’s gonna do about it.

End of story.

[RayChuang88]

This is all the MORE reason for my tagline.

In fact, we should create an enhanced version of FairTax that essentially has a total consumption tax rate of 28%, with 21.5% going to the Federal government and 6.5% going to the state at the point of sale for new-production goods and services. That way, not only do we eliminate the IRS, but also state income tax authorities all at the same time.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

I’ve long thought that there are too many on our side who poo poo the social aspect of conservatism. They do this at their own peril. Perhaps, they do it because they feel that in their own lives they have failed to live up to these social standards. Who knows what the individual reasons are.

However, they like Ayn Rand understand the fiscal and economic reasons why conservative thought and practice have made this country what it is. However, without the social conservative aspect, they don’t understand why people willingly adhere to the conservative fiscal aspect. They miss the glue that holds this all together. As John Adams said, our constitution is made only for a moral and relgious people. Without a moral society, our great republic will not function the way it’s supposed to. We must fix the moral aspect as well as the fiscal one.

[LibLieSlayer]

Here is the truth... the republicrats and the demoncrats are one in the same. We were lied to by Michele and boehner and the rest of these criminals. 80% of the republicans holding elected office are no better than the dims. The solution... force these jerks into NOT raising the debt limit. We need to face this crisis now... now when it is ten times bigger than it already is. The only way to get to a balanced budget is to force it upon those that either refuse through ideology or are spineless cowards and greedy thieves. That about covers ALL elected officials in the US. Being a politician is the absolute lowest form of life known in modern times.

LLS