You can prove anything with numbers. This article addresses a prime example of this ‘truism’. It also reinforces the importance of “defining terms”. ======= By Alan Reynolds March 2, 2015 7:01 p.m. ET In the “Economic Report of the President” released on Feb. 19, the White House’s Council of Economic Advisers defines “middle class economics” primarily by the average income of the bottom 90%.... Read more
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The Mumbo-Jumbo of ‘Middle-Class Economics’
March 7 | Posted by mrossol | Democrat Party, Economics, Party PoliticsKay Hagan’s Bad Math
October 21 | Posted by mrossol | Party Politics, The LeftHey, when you’re trying hard to help people who can’t help themselves, you can’t get bogged down in the numbers. ================== Liberals often struggle at math, notably when describing government funding. A case in point is North Carolina, where Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan is bludgeoning Republican opponent Thom Tillis with a bogus set of education-funding numbers. Ms. Hagan and her allies are blanketing... Read more
The Ebola Democrats
October 9 | Posted by mrossol | Big Govt, Democrat Party, Party PoliticsWho needs facts or all the numbers? =============== Frantic to hold the Senate, Democrats are now claiming Republicans are pro-Ebola—really. Anything is better than having to defend White House competence or even the adequacy of the public-health response, though this election debate would benefit from a fact or two. Here’s a heavy-rotation TV spot from Arkansas incumbent Mark Pryor against his GOP opponent:... Read more
How Wisconsin Prosecutors Became Campaign Partisans
September 23 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, Party Politics, The Left, US ConstitutionImagine, if you can, that the subject was “left leaning”? ======== By Richard M. Esenberg Sept. 19, 2014 6:53 p.m. ET Last year Wisconsin prosecutors—at the behest of Milwaukee’s Democratic District Attorney John Chisholm —launched a secret criminal investigation involving almost every conservative advocacy group in the state. Armed law-enforcement personnel executed pre-dawn searches of the homes of consultants for the Wisconsin Club for... Read more
Guilty until Proven Innocent – Democrat Style
July 8 | Posted by mrossol | Democrat Party, Party PoliticsAlong with “crony capitalizm”, this kind of “party politics” should be abandoned by both parties. What the Democats are doing – do YOU agree with this method? ============== The Obama Administration has targeted for-profit colleges as if they are enemy combatants. And now it has succeeded in putting out of business Santa Ana-based Corinthian Colleges for a dilatory response to document requests.... Read more
IRS Lost Email Jeopardy
June 25 | Posted by mrossol | IRS, Party Politics, The Left, US ConstitutionAnd the press, who hold to their sacred duty to expose Govt ‘mis-management’, is total absent this discussion. =========== The IRS is spinning a tale of bureaucratic incompetence to explain the vanishing emails from former Tax Exempt Organizations doyenne Lois Lerner and six other IRS employees. We have less faith by the minute that there is an innocent explanation for this failure... Read more
