I’m not happy with the compromise struck between the President, the Senate and the House on the drastic spending cuts in exchange for raising the debt ceiling. Make no mistake, the spending cuts will hurt the poorest and middle class the…
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Paul Krugman: Most Libertarians Fail to Defend Liberty
by Dan Chmielewski • • 2 Comments
I’m looking forward to the comments our Libertarian friends will have to this New York Times blog post by Paul Krugman. I’m sure there will be whining and complaining, and usually from the same people so quick to ill-define…
NY Times on Gov. Brown
by Dan Chmielewski • • 4 Comments
 Sunday’s New York Times editorial page featured this column from Maureen Dowd based on an interview with Governor Jerry Brown in Anaheim. Dowd’s wit and insight certainly come through, but as I read Brown’s quotes, I constantly wonder, “why…
Should we look to the Defense Budget to Cut Wasteful Government Spending?
by Dan Chmielewski • • 5 Comments
A question for our conservative Tea Party Patriots? If you want to cut wasteful government spending, at what point do we cut the defense budget? With the Obama administration’s support for the Automobile industry reviled as creating “Government Motors,” a…
New CBS/NY Times Poll: Public Trusts Democrats More
by Dan Chmielewski • • 2 Comments
This exceptional opinion column in today’s New York Times is well worth reading and should serve as a reminder that the leadership demonstrated by President Obama and the accomplishments of the Democratically-controlled Congress in the past two difficult years has…
OC is no Longer Nixonland: NY Times
by Dan Chmielewski • • Comments Off
I saw this page one story in yesterday’s New York Times but couldn’t post becuase I was offsite all day and too tired to doi it last night, but it’s telling when the nation’s newspaper of record devotes a page…
The Failure of Supply Side Economics
by Dan Chmielewski • • 2 Comments
The Register’s Brian Calle and John Seiler have both weighed in on our repsonse post about the failure of Reaganomics, better described as “supply side economics” citing the 40th president’s view that placing more money in the hands of Americans…
