Freedom 1, Tyranny 0

Calif. rejects ban on plastic shopping bags

Chris Christie vs. immovable objects

Christie Channels Reagan to Become Anti-Obama

Reagan became on overwhelming political force because of his ability to appeal to audiences beyond his natural constituency, as Christie did at that Perth Amboy gathering. Christie clearly has the same knack, and will become an irresistible political force if New Jersey can recover.

Damn straight

Hugh Hewitt: Seventy percent of Americans know they've been conned

Two years into what had been sold as a new politics and a new approach, the 70 percent are fully aware that they have been conned, suckered, and taken to the cleaners by a hyper-ideological amalgam of leftist public intellectuals, snarling bloggers, career politicians with limited abilities who are often corrupt, and a president wholly inexperienced in the management of complex problems who is in way over his head and prisoner to slogans and schemes that make for great campus debates -- but for disaster in the real world.

Why the Recovery Lags

Imagine that!

Big Government was supposed to help consumers. Instead...

Credit Card Interest Rates Much Higher

Doh!

Saturday Night Video

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"I'm a liberal who was mugged by the laws of thermodynamics."

Going "Green"

If wind and solar power were practical, entrepreneurs would invest in it. There would be no need for government to take money from taxpayers and give it to people pushing green products.

"We are witnessing a worldwide repudiation of big government and Keynesian economics."

The Failure Of The Federal Confidence Game

"Tea party supporters are not in the mood to be bought off with $400 tax credits."

Tea parties fight Obama's culture of dependence

But public policy also helps determine the kind of society we are. The Obama Democrats see a society in which ordinary people cannot fend for themselves, where they need to have their incomes supplemented, their health care insurance regulated and guaranteed, their relationships with their employers governed by union leaders. Highly educated mandarins can make better decisions for them than they can make themselves.

That is the culture of dependence. The tea partiers see things differently. They're not looking for lower taxes; half of tea party supporters, a New York Times survey found, think their taxes are fair. Nor are they financially secure: Half say someone in their household may lose their job in the next year. Two-thirds say the recession has caused some hardship in their lives. But they recognize, correctly, that the Obama Democrats are trying to permanently enlarge government and increase citizens' dependence on it.