Margaret Thatcher on Socialism

Hat Tip: Mark Levin Show

Reagan responds to Obama and his supporters

The Bully Victim Who Fought Back (Casey Heynes) - Exclusive ACA Intervie...

Stossel - The Department Of Bull

I tend to be more of a hawk on foreign policy and anti-drug, but the rest of the video is great.

Trump on the Somali Pirates: "I would wipe them off the face of the earth."

The Donald Doctrine!

Palin Doctrine Emerges as Arab League Echoes Her Demarche on Libya

Benyamin Korn at the NY Sun details the emergence of the Palin Doctrine

The call by the Arab League for Western military intervention in an Arab state — in this case asking that a UN “no-fly zone” be imposed over Libya – is not only without precedent but it puts in formal terms what Governor Palin stated three weeks ago should have been America’s response to the political and humanitarian crisis now unfolding there.

The former GOP vice presidential candidate was being interviewed on February 23rd on national television by Sean Hannity on a range of issues. On the Libya crisis, she proposed a no-fly-zone to protect the armed and un-armed opposition to the Qaddafi regime. Mrs. Palin’s formulation had been blogged about for nearly a week when it was echoed by the man who, before the Iraq war, had led the Iraq democratic movement in exile, Ahmed Chalabi...Read More

 Hat Tip: NY Sun

Andrew Napolitano - Progressive Disaster

You go judge.

"Fukushima 50" Team Working to Avoid Nuclear Meltdown

I think these workers are such heroes. How many of us would go to work if it meant you have a good chance of dying? I know most of us would like to think we would be heroic but the truth is they are actually doing it. They are truly heroes. I bow to you Fukushima 50 (there are actually 180 of them)

Static Versus Dynamic Scoring

I get tired of hearing people people say this or that tax cut is for the rich. The following is taken verbatim from Freedomworks they explain it more concisely than I could:

Static Versus Dynamic Scoring

When tax cuts are proposed, government economists calculate how much they will "cost" the government--"cost" being the expected decrease in tax revenue for the state as a result of the tax cut--to inform legislators before they vote. Two very different types of calculations exist, "static scoring" and "dynamic scoring."

Static scoring assumes the tax cuts will have no change on the economic behavior of the individuals that are effected. For example, it assumes that if $100 is taxed at 50%, producing $50 in revenue, then a lowering the tax rate to 25% on $100 will produce $25 of revenue, "costing" the government $25 in lost revenue. It assumes the lower tax rate won't encourage anyone to behave any differently than they currently do.

Dynamic scoring ads to the calculations the predictable changes tax cuts have on economic behavior. For example, it assumes that if a 50% tax on $100 produces $50 in revenue, then lowering the tax rate to 25% will produce $25 in revenue, as static scoring predicts, but also that individuals will work more (if it's an income tax cut) or realize more capital gains (if it's a capital gains tax cut, etc.) because they will get to keep more of their money. This changed behavior will produce an extra $100, for example, which is also taxed at $25, resulting in a total of $50 in revenue, and no loss for the state.

The history of economic growth following tax cuts, from the Kennedy tax cuts to the Reagan tax cuts to the Bush tax cuts, repeatedly shows that the static score predictions have been way off the mark (overestimating the "cost") while the dynamic score predictions have been much closer to accurate.

Issa pledges probe into ATF “gun walking” operation

Issa revealed his plans during an interview Wednesday evening on the Roger Hedgecock Show, saying it would be one of his “primary investigations.”

According to Issa, the official announcement will “come out in the next day or two.” He said that although he normally investigates “waste, fraud, and abuse in government that leads to loss of money,” in this case, two individuals — a Border Patrol Agent and an Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agent – “lost their lives needlessly because AK-47’s got over the border — not by accident — they got their as part of a plot by the very people that should be protecting them…”

“We’re going to get to the bottom of it … we’re going to hold those who lied to us early on accountable,” Issa promised Hedgecock.

Hat Tip: Daily Caller and Hot Air

British Teacher Saved 42 Teens From Tsunami | Orange UK

Quite a hero.

British Teacher Saved 42 Teens From Tsunami | Orange UK

A British teacher has been dubbed a hero after he led his students to higher ground just moments before their school was obliterated by a tsunami in Japan.

Robert Bailey, 27, told how he was "terrified" but had a duty to keep the teenagers safe.

He had just eight minutes to get the class of 42 students to safety.

"We first heard a weird cracking noise, then came the violent shaking," he said, describing the moment the earthquake struck on March 11.

"I ushered the students outside on to the baseball field so they wouldn't be hit by falling debris...Read More"

Hat Tip: Orange

John Stossel - Green Jobs

Breitbart.tv » Rudy: Obama Too Disengaged on World Events

Breitbart.tv » Rudy: Obama Too Disengaged on World Events

Davis Release Signals Recalibration of U.S.-Pakistan Intelligence Relationship

Thank Goodness...BTW Blood money is a normal cultural thing in middle east, so this is not surprising. People even buy insurance for it.

Davis Release Signals Recalibration of U.S.-Pakistan Intelligence Relationship The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.

...After spending almost two months in a Lahore jail for killing two Pakistanis, CIA contractor Raymond Davis was released today, ending one of the most serious diplomatic standoffs between Islamabad and Washington in nine years of partnering in the fight against terrorism.

Davis was set free after family members of the Pakistanis killed by Davis told a Pakistani court that they were dropping charges in exchange for financial compensation, often referred to as “blood money” in Pakistan...Read More

Hat Tip: Heritage Blog

Saudi Arabia emerges as key policeman in region

This is what happens when there is a vacuum in leadership from the most powerful man in the world.

Saudi Arabia has moved decisively to bolster Bahrain's embattled royal family, sending military forces across the causeway linking the two kingdoms after violent weekend pro-democracy protests by Shia demonstrators all but overwhelmed police.
Although the deployment on Monday was at Bahrain's request and came under the guise of the Gulf Co-operation Council, whose other members also sent troops, it marked another stage in Saudi Arabia's reluctant emergence as the key regional policeman, at a time when the Arab world faces unprecedented turmoil...Read More at Pravda

Saudi Arabia emerges as key policeman in region - English pravda.ru