The Real “1 Percent” Deserving of the Public’s Wrath
Government jobs are safe, secure, pressure-free — and now, amazingly lucrative.
Government jobs are safe, secure, pressure-free — and now, amazingly lucrative.
Why class warfare thrives on ignorance.
Why class distinctions are practically meaningless.
The major difference between Hitler and the Communist genocidal murderers was what groups they chose for extermination.
What did the president mean when he said America has gotten “soft”?
Yes, we the people have a moral obligation to lend a hand to our young, our sick, and our downtrodden, but the role of our federal government is to protect our individual rights so we don’t have to watch our backs all the time, so we can focus on other pursuits, such as bettering ourselves and the world around us.
Leftist Rule for Engaging Conservative Ideas #1: conservatives’ motives are never what they claim. It must be rigorously asserted that right-wingers are invariably driven by impulses more sinister than making people better off or trying to find solutions to the problems we face. New Republic senior editor Jonathan Chait knows that lesson by heart—on the Daily Beast, he argues that from the lowliest Tea Partier all the way up to Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), the Right is animated by a view of “the poor as parasites” and “the rich as our rightful rulers,” a dogma we’ve picked up from philosopher Ayn Rand.
In a winding series of bizarre conflations and assertions Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz concludes that if only we could make the “top 1%” less wealthy, we would have a better society.
In a winding series of bizarre conflations and assertions Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz concludes that if only we could make the “top 1%” less wealthy, we would have a better society.
Republicans have backed their way into a corner in opposing the bank bill. The “just say no” to bailouts is totally delusional. If the big bank fail, you do have to bail them out or it really will be a total collapse. That’s why you have to regulate them, which is the lesson we should [...]