Showing posts with label Reason. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Reason. Show all posts
Saturday, April 6, 2024

Lyin' Joe Biden's IRS is auditing the middle class, not the rich as promised

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 Discussed here :   "As of last summer, 63% of new audits targeted taxpayers with income of less than $200,000,"   reports   the  ...
Saturday, May 21, 2022

Rod Dreher goes hunting a confederacy of dunces, bags prey from The Week, National Review, Religion News Service, The New Republic, Reason, NYMag, and Vox

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Monday, July 5, 2021

Joel Kotkin has come around, now calls it what it is: Global fascism

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In 2018, Kotkin was still tip-toeing around the obvious, but not anymore: Mussolini’s notion of fascism has become increasingly dominant in ...
Sunday, January 10, 2021

For some reason Peter Meijer, Justin Amash's replacement, feels the need to parade his combat cred, basically admits to mental illness: "fully uniformed", "parachute in ... not literally", "a through and through combatant"

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Here , apparently because some people doubt it. He did, after all, bail out of West Point and will forever live with the stigma. Read the wh...
Tuesday, January 21, 2020

Club for Growth and Freedom Works both stop funding Justin Amash, so he'll just have to tap the family Chinese tool company fortune made on the backs of America's downward-spiraling middle class

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Story here , whose author has probably never once in his life seriously thought about trimming legislative power overreach.
Thursday, August 8, 2019

Democrat Socialists of America, the party of AOC and Rashida Tlaib, vote to work more closely with violent Antifa

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Story .
Thursday, June 13, 2019

Standing ovation for Justin Amash for his impeachment support must have come from Democrats

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Shock Poll: Amash Down 16 Points in Republican Primary: First survey since the libertarian’s impeachment comments shows big lead for pro-...
Tuesday, May 21, 2019

Memo to Erick Erickson: One of Justin Amash's so-called pro-life principles is that it's OK to abort up to 3-days from conception

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Which has been public knowledge since at least March 2013 , at the start of the third year of his tenure, but y'all too damn lazy to th...
Wednesday, October 25, 2017

A. Barton Hinkle shows once again that libertarianism is of the left, not the right

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Here : [B]oth parties have grown more extreme in recent years. Congressional Republicans certainly have. Congressional Democrats tend ...
Thursday, April 13, 2017

Trump flips on Ex-Im Bank

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Reported here : His budget chief Mick Mulvaney said on CNBC (transcript via  Reason ) Wednesday that Trump was now pro-Ex-Im, and the p...
Wednesday, February 15, 2017

ObamaCare Update: Trump policy induces IRS to say leave form 1040 line 61 blank if you want

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From the story here : The IRS was set to require filers to indicate whether they had maintained coverage in 2016 or paid the penalty b...
Sunday, February 5, 2017

James Robart, who is trying to stop Trump, is a so-called judge because of his handling of a sexual assault case

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And because he knows the courts have understood immigration to be the province of the president but doesn't care. His is pure politica...
Thursday, August 11, 2016

Not a conservative A. Barton Hinkle complains Trump is not a conservative

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Here . What he means is Trump is not a libertarian. To Hinkle, Republican Senator Mark Kirk of Illinois is a "leading intellectua...
Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Reason dot com caves to the tyranny's censors

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Libertarianism doesn't really believe in what it says it believes in, and can't save you from what's coming. They fold like ...
Saturday, January 10, 2015

Libertarians will never boldly go where no man has gone before

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That's because they'll be retreating underground to their inner planet "Galt". Libertarians hate the original Star...
Thursday, August 7, 2014

Libertarians are really about restricting people less, which makes them liberals not conservatives

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From The New York Times, here : [Nick] Gillespie [of Reason Magazine] was unimpressed by Ronald Reagan, who declared a new “war on drugs,” r...
Saturday, November 2, 2013

Justin Amash Is Consistently Pro-Life . . . Except For The First Three Days Of It

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When Amash was asked about the appropriate time frame limit [to] abortion rights, he said, “I think that where we have it now is not correct...

To Representative Justin Amash, Abortion Is OK Only When You're Just A Little Bit Pregnant

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Sometimes you can't hide it when you gotta go. Seen here  (source here ): When Amash was asked about the appropriate time frame limit [t...
Saturday, February 16, 2013

Give Us A President So Depressed He Can Hardly Get Out Of Bed

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So opines Gene Healy for Reason , here : [T]he conventional wisdom overvalues presidents who enjoy the job. In his influential 1972 book The...
Sunday, December 9, 2012

I Don't Call Sen. Jim DeMint "Demented" For Nothing

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Here he is in all his confused glory: "I think the new debate in the Republican Party needs to be between conservatives and libertaria...