Boortz on Liberal Talk Radio

Boortz on Liberal Talk Radio

WorldNetDaily: Search for the impossible

We're running out of time quickly, but this too needs to be said: See if your new leftist radio wunderkind can explain why our founding fathers wrote nine of the first 10 amendments to our Constitution to protect the rights of individuals, and then wrote just one to protect the rights of government.

Nevada Court Nullifies Nevada Constitution

Nevada Supreme Court Goes Nuts

I cannot believe the audacity and willfulness of the Nevada Supreme Court. It set aside the Nevada Constitutional Amendment which required a supermajority to raise taxes. It decided that the need to fund the budget was more important than the TWICE stated will of the people of Nevada. Rather than finding a way to CUT the budget and make up the difference that way, they decided to become legislatures and chjange the Nevada Consitution by fiat. What's next? The Court will decide that a sudden and protracted health care crises can only be treated by their devine word as well? "All doctors and nurses must work for free . . . because we need it and it doesn't matter what you want"? Read on.

CONSTITUTIONAL RULING: Court paves way for new taxes

U.S. Rep. Jim Gibbons, R-Nev., the author of the initiative petition that put the two-thirds requirement for tax increases in the state constitution, expressed outrage at the decision.

'Today, the Nevada Supreme Court wilfully ignored the wishes of more than 70 percent of Nevadans who twice voted in favor of requiring a two-thirds majority to pass a tax increase,' Gibbons said in a prepared statement. 'The court failed to protect the will of the people of Nevada and has denigrated our state's constitution and political process.'

Who Pays Texas Issues

Who Pays Taxes Issues

Bruce Bartlett: The rich are already paying their fair share

In short, there is substantial mobility in and out of the ranks of the very wealthy, a fact documented by Forbes in its annual survey. According to a recent study by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, between 1988 and 1998, 47 percent of those in the lowest income quintile rose to a higher quintile, and 47 percent of those in the top quintile fell to a lower one.

Furthermore, although the average tax rate on the top 400 fell, one has to go to the original IRS report to discover that their share of total income taxes paid rose by 50 percent, from 1.04 percent in 1992 to 1.58 percent in 2000. In other words, the richest of the rich paid more and everyone else paid less.

PC on Campus Overcomes First Amendment

PC on Campus Overcomes First Amendment

Suzanne Fields: Dishonor on the Campus

Just when you think the politically correct clowns on the campus can't get any more ridiculous, they shoot another live white man out of a canon.

Steve Hinkle is an undergraduate at California Polytechnic University. He has been found guilty in the campus kangaroo court of posting a flier on a student bulletin board offending the sensibilities of a small group of students so intellectually fragile they belong in a day-care center.

Iraq is better Off Than is Portrayed

Iraq is better Off Than is Portrayed

Progress behind the headlines - The Washington Times: Commentary

The American-led movement toward democracy is slowly but surely gaining strength in Iraq. Of course you might never know it from the newspaper and television reports coming out of Baghdad lately. The bloody but sporadic guerrilla attacks by remnants of Saddam Hussein's regime have been capturing all of the headlines here, while the process of democratic governance, still in its infancy, has clearly begun to take root — though rarely gets reported in any depth in the national news media.

Thomas Sowell Fixes America's Education System

Thomas Sowell Fixes America's Education System

find these books. Read them. Learn something for cryin' out loud. ;-)

Thomas Sowell: Summer reading

From time to time, parents write to ask how they can counter all the steady diet of slanted political correctness their children are getting in the schools and colleges. The summer vacation is probably as good a time as any to get them something to read to let them know that there is another side of the story, other than the one that classroom propagandists keep forcing down their throats.

Texas Dems Dislike Not Being In Power

Texas Dems Dislike Not Being In Power

Getting a taste of their own medicine for the first time in over 100 years, the Texas Dems dislike the fact the the Reps are trying to draw up a Reps gerrymandered political map rather than the Dem gerrymandered one already in existence. Well, tough. The fact that the losing party has more representatives in US congress than the winning party is exactly what happens when gerrymandering is allowed . . . and it is. Now they are going to have to pay the piper for all those years of freezing out the Reps. Unless, of course, the Reps chicken out - which they have been known to do on many occasisons. (Apologies to all gallo-Americans out there.)

Key senators denounce House map - Texas

Key senators declared a House-passed redistricting bill dead on arrival Tuesday and promised an alternative to better reflect growing GOP strength without dividing communities and robbing rural Texas of its influence in Congress.

"I've talked to a number of senators, both Democrat and Republican, and they've got some problems with the House map," said GOP Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, who presides over the Senate.

Democrats attending a redistricting hearing in Dallas said a bipartisan bloc in the Senate was ready to prevent the House map from reaching the Senate floor.

Medicare for Thee but Not for Me

Medicare for Thee but Not for Me

Lawmakers exempted federal employees from the Medicare plan they want the rest of the country to accept. Interesting.House Shields Federal Retirees (washingtonpost.com)

The House yesterday approved legislation sponsored by Washington area lawmakers to ensure that federal retirees, including members of Congress, keep prescription drug benefits far more generous than those included in Medicare legislation passed last month.

Mona Charon On Victor Davis Hanson on Immigration

Mona Charon On Victor Davis Hanson on Immigration

Straight talk on immigration

Everyone knows that illegal immigrants come to the United States for a better life. Mr. Hanson fills in some of the blanks that most Americans may not know — for example, the inflexible racism and two-tiered nature of Mexican society. Their country is so poor, and so backward, that most Mexicans have more in common with Egyptians and Indians than with Americans. They flee north because they can, and the Mexican government offers a wink and a nod, and often more, to facilitate this flow. Why? Mr. Hanson argues that it serves as a safety valve for Mexico itself. If the discontented could not flee north, pressure would build within Mexico for reform. And reform is exactly what the power elite in Mexico wishes to avoid.

Bush/Rice 2004?

Bush/Rice 2004?

GOP ticket option? - The Washington Times: Commentary

"How can President Bush ensure a re-election victory next year when his opponent may be New York's Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton?

One answer is to make a switch in executive positions early next year. The 2004 Republican convention could nominate National Security Adviser Condoleeza Rice, 49,for vice president and President Bush, 57, appoints Vice President Richard Cheney, 62, to succeed her as national security adviser.

Two big accomplishments here: President Bush still has two of his most effective advisers close to him during his re-election campaign and hopefully during a second term. And he has a splendid potential Republican presidential candidate in 2008 in the person of Ms. Rice. "

Civil Rights? Civil Responsibility.

Imagine if a White Columnist Had Said This

Civil Rights, the Sequel

It is now absolutely normal in many circles for young black men and women (and, for that matter, little black boys and girls) to refer to one another as niggaz and bitches and ho's. Doing well in school is frequently disdained as a white thing. Doing time in prison is widely accepted as a black thing, and no cause for shame.

Few people are surprised to hear that a gathering at this party or that club degenerated into the kind of violence we used to associate with the O.K. Corral. Homicide, drugs and AIDS are carving the heart out of one generation after another, and suicide among blacks is on the rise.

Low Teacher Pay a Myth

The Hoover Institute v. The American Federation of Teachers

Study: Low teacher pay a myth

WASHINGTON – A new survey by the American Federation of Teachers says that despite recent gains, teachers are still underpaid.

But a separate study by the Hoover Institution finds teachers earn more per hour than architects, engineers, scientists and nurses.

According to economist Richard Vedder, who authored the recent Hoover study, unions fail to account for the shorter teaching workday and work year when measuring compensation. Teachers come out ahead when spring and summer breaks are factored in.

Vedder also notes teachers' retirement and health-insurance benefits are typically more generous than those of the average professional.

Drug Companies v. Pols Issues

Drug Companies v. Pols Issues

Politics enough to make drug companies sick

Daring innovation is most likely in a competitive, profit-driven market. Today's medicines exist only because there is a bevy of sophisticated pharmaceutical companies devoted to finding drugs to heal the sick.

Isn't this serving consumers well?

But prices are too high, claim myopic, vote-seeking politicians like Sen. Jim Jeffords, I-Vt. Heck, they only save lives. Extend our life spans. Moderate our pain. Control our nausea. Eliminate our need for surgery. Treat our allergies.

Why should we have to pay for such products? The outrage!

Weapons Issues

Weapons Issues

Build a new nuke

Cue the outrage: The Bush administration is interested in developing and testing a new bunker-busting nuclear weapon. Earlier this year, Congress approved funds for the development of such a nuke, and one could conceivably be tested as early as 2005.

FBI guide warns of hidden knives

WASHINGTON –Since the Sept. 11 hijackings, an FBI lab here has been compiling a database of easily concealable knives – including long, fixed blades hidden in canes, retractable short blades hidden in keys and lipstick tubes, and others made of nonmetal composites that can escape detection by airport magnetometers and X-ray machines.

NEA Wants to Play

NEA Wants to Play

Don't you even believe it. One of the most powerful and liberal unions in the country wants to make nice with conservatives? What's their angle? (Other than courting the party in power?)

NEA 'reaching out' from the left to GOP

NEW ORLEANS — The president of the National Education Association acknowledges that the union is left-wing politically and 90 percent pro-Democrat but says he wants to reach out more to Republicans.

"I think many [Republican leaders in the Bush administration and Congress] feel as though we may not support as many Republicans as Democrats. That has been true in the past," NEA President Reg Weaver told The Washington Times in an exclusive interview at the conclusion of the union's annual convention here.

Wendy McElroy on PCSpeak

Wendy McElroy on PCSpeak

The PCspeak of Diversity - Wendy McElroy

If some voices were still able to argue effectively against PC diversity, then the final stage of controlling language could be implemented: punishing those who dissent. Dissenters could be called hate-filled and a danger to society. Their objections could become hate crimes punishable by law.

A recent tax-funded study in Canada suggested legally prosecuting men's advocacy sites, including U.S. ones, under Canadian hate speech law even though such sites are usually more innocuous than many feminist ones. In 1984, dissent is called "crimethink." We call it hate speech.

The villain of 1984 proclaims, "The whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought." He concludes, "The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect."

It is time to reclaim the richness of the English language ... verb by verb, adjective by adjective. PC advocates must recognize that syllables are not vessels of evil, words should not be the focus of law and disagreement is no crime.

Dems Get $ from Big Donors, not Reps

Dems Get $ from Big Donors, not Reps

Conventional wisdom strikes out - Mona Charen

So it's of more than passing interest to see the results of a study conducted by the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics. The study, which tracked 1.6 million contributions to House and Senate races, the two political parties and political action committees during the 2002 election season, found that Republicans raised far more from small donors than did the Democrats. As Ronald Brownstein of the Los Angeles Times reports, "Democrats raised as much or more than Republicans in 2002 only among the largest donors. Democrats attracted 92 percent of the money from the 23 donors who contributed at least $1 million. ... By contrast, Republicans dominated among smaller and mid-sized donors. The GOP garnered 64 percent of the total contributions from those who gave less than $200 and 61 percent from those who donated between $200 and $999."