Posted by StephC on March 4th, 2010 in False Premises, Opinion, World Affairs
I believe what you mean is we should raise taxes, rather than add a new one.
Speaking at a security conference in San Francisco, Microsoft Vice President for Trustworthy Computing Scott Charney pitched the Web usage fee as one way to subsidize efforts to combat emerging cyber threats — a costly venture, he said, but one [...]
Posted by StephC on February 12th, 2010 in Bipartisanship, Neocommunism, Obama, Opinion, Politics General
This time it’s taxes. On the middle class.
“The whole point of it is to make sure that all ideas are on the table,” the president said in the interview with Bloomberg BusinessWeek, which will appear on newsstands Friday. “So what I want to do is to be completely agnostic, in terms of solutions.”
Isn’t that what [...]
Posted by StephC on February 5th, 2010 in Obama, Opinion, World Affairs
The European Union is no longer charmed, it seems.
“We want to see a strong and united Europe, speaking with one voice. In the best of all possible worlds, that one voice will be saying what we want to hear,” Mr. Gordon said, according to the Web site of Britain’s Economist magazine. “If it is not [...]
Posted by StephC on January 25th, 2010 in World Affairs
Castro and Chavez say the United States is occupying Haiti. Yet their own responses to Haiti leave a lot to be desired.
In my mind, one reason the military is best to send into disaster situations is so tin-pot dictators can’t do what they’re accusing of us doing. We have a history of doing what we [...]
Posted by Steve on January 19th, 2010 in Politics General
WOW!!!! WOW!!! The seat formerly held by the late Senator Edward Kennedy has been won by Republican Scott Brown!! Yes, that’s right! A Republican won the U.S. Senate seat for Massachusetts! It’s an astonishing achievement! And it is the one thing that finally got the attention of the liberal elites in Washington [...]