Author Archives | James V DeLong

Deep Space IRS

” I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords”

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Back at the Congressional Tea Party Caucus . . .

If the current Congressional Tea Party Caucus cannot reform itself, and very quickly,then it needs to disband and stop playing the dog in the manger.

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Political Leadership, Romney, and Palin

“Romney’s top strategists saw the campaign not as a battle for the hearts and minds of Americans, but as a massive marketing and advertising challenge.”

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Carbon Tax

The carbon tax is the proverbial Garden Path, or the road to Hell that is paved with good intentions.

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Reviving the Congressional Tea Party Caucus

An active and aggressive Congressional Tea Party Caucus is essential.

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Earth [Cult] Day

Doom, gloom, and apocalypse ad infinitum.

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Carbon Dioxide and the Supreme Court: Earth Cult Day

A very important Petition for Certiorari (in English, a request for review) was filed with the Supreme Court last Friday. It asks the Supreme Court to halt EPA’s use of its power over emissions of carbon dioxide to cripple the American energy system.

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EPA in Action: Crony Environmentalism

“This is crony phony environmentalism, and we all deserve better.”

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More on Palin at CPAC

In terms of both style and substance, it was a tape measure home run.

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The Republican Crisis (and the Nation’s)

Richard Fernandez, who writes as Belmont Club at PJMedia, has a good entry on the current state of the Republican Party . . .

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Where Have You Gone, Grover Cleveland?

“[A]another danger confronts us not less serious. I refer to the prevalence of a popular disposition to expect from the operation of the Government especial and direct individual advantages.”

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More Abuse of a Self-Serving Establishment

“[T]he regulatory superstate depends on inflicting pain on the rest of the country, pain that only Washington itself can relieve—if you pay up and have the right connections, that is”

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“She fights!”

“We can’t spare that woman; she fights!”

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Defending One’s Own — Starting with Sarah Palin

“Recognize that the average Progressive has an attention span suited to the 140 character limit imposed by Twitter, so learn to speak in tweets. Don’t let them get away with nonsense.”

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The Republican Establishment Wants a New People

The GOP establishment has been reading Bertolt Brecht, and wants a new people

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Arms & Liberty

“My excellent colleagues have forgotten these bitter lessons of history.”

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The Continuing Chronicles of Corrupt Cronyism

The Washington Examiner‘s indispensable Tim Carney provides another lesson in how Washington really works: Baucus rewards ex-staffers with tax breaks for their clients.

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New Year’s Pork, Served Up By Congress

Roast pork is a common New Year’s Day dish, and in the fiscal cliff bill Congress held firm to this old tradition.

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What Are These People?

Tom Smith doubts that Obama is a socialist — that would actually be an optimistic view:

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Palin as a Speaker

“She focused on the issues, and had clearly thought about them”

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Thinking About America

American Thinker is on a roll today.

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Keep the Republican Recriminations Going

Against Crony Capitalism notes that cronyism is as destructive within political parties as it is in the business/government intertwining

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Republican Recriminating

On National Review Online, Michael Walsh goes on a tear

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Warren Buffet, Crony Capitalist

“Warren Buffett is one of America’s biggest bailout beneficiaries, having profited hugely from buying into firms whose assets were subsequently bailed out.”

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Climate Capers

Lord Monckton, who is the sharpest of the pins puncturing the climate change hoax balloon, went to Doha for the UN meeting.

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Understanding the Special Interest State — Tax Breaks

“The tax code is the fine print of the social contract on which the fat belly of Leviathan comfortably rests.”

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Consultants — Vivisection Has Its Place

Considering the treatment that Republican consultant Stephen Schmidt and his minions gave Sarah Palin during and after the 2008 campaign, it is a safe bet that few followers of C4P are Schmidt fans. So all should enjoy Jeffrey Lord’s American Spectator piece on The Quisling Consultants. Everyone should read the whole thing, but here are [...]

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The Future(s) of the Tea Party

Contrasting visions:

“We are about to have a Tea Party second wave that will dwarf the first wave . . . “

“The most useful future for the Tea Party is to prepare to fill the void caused by the certain collapse. . . . “

 

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State Focus

MPI is one of the state-based, free-market oriented think tanks that has sprung up in the past few years, and it and its fellows are now more relevant than ever. Many conservatives, depressed over the condition of Washington, DC,  are shifting their attention to states and localities in the hope that these can be islands of sanity in a political world that is increasingly disconnected from reality, and the state organizations are an excellent resource.

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More on Crony Capitalism & the Hunger Games

More news about Crony Capitalism: Crony Chronicles has added a new feature called Crony Capsules. Each entry focuses on a specific issues area of cronyism. This week: Agribusiness, especially sugar. Reaon’s Nick Gillespie noted the Hunger Games theme last July, and included a link to “a new edition of Arthur A. Ekirch’s great The Decline [...]

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