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In Defense of CEO Pay – Part 1: The CEO Pay Ratio
CEO’s have taken a beating lately. Some of the criticism is deserved, but the argument that CEO pay is out of line simply because public company CEOs make 300 times what the average worker does, bears some analysis. The implication, sometimes stated outright, is that workers deserve more pay, and CEOs deserve less. That... »
Stop Monetary Policy from Getting Progessively Worse
Progressives (née Liberals) far and wide are crying foul over a letter from the GOP Congressional leadership to the chair of the Federal Reserve Board. The letter has drawn charges of intentional sabotage and that the GOP wants America to fail. Dick Durbin even had to break away from his yeoman’s work of destroying... »
Does Tavis Smiley Think Obama Lied about the Stimulus?
On today’s Morning Joe, PBS host Tavis Smiley accused the Bush administration of lying to the American people about WMD in Iraq. This is a popular liberal canard. It even made Jon Meacham, former editor of Newsweek, and no friend to the cause defend George Bush: Smiley tries to re-define the word “lie” as... »
Is Social Security a Ponzi Scheme? Yes.
Rick Perry keeps saying Social Security is a Ponzi Scheme. It is almost as if he believes that social security is a fraud that involves the payment of purported returns to existing investors from funds contributed by new investors. To be fair, that SEC definition is from it’s criminal enforcement division. A more neutral... »
The one thing liberals forgot to learn in Kindergarten: The sun warms the Earth.
The one thing liberals forgot to learn in Kindergarten: The sun warms the Earth. »
Paul Krugman Proves they Don’t Teach Science in MIT’s Economics Department
In his latest irrational, political screed, NY Times economist, Paul Krugman, bemoans how Republicans hate science. With all due respect to Mr. Krugman and his shiny Swedish trinket, he is in out of his depth here. Trying to bluster your way through science to make a political point is never pretty, but Krugman seems... »
Team Obama: We don’t know that Rick Perry isn’t a racist.
Team Obama: We don’t know that Rick Perry isn’t a racist. »
Obama on our non-hostile involvement in Libya: Days not weeks. 160 days, and counting.
Obama on our non-hostile involvement in Libya: Days not weeks. 160 days, and counting. »
Afghanistan until Malia can run for Congress (2024): Long. Hard. Slog.
Afghanistan until Malia can run for Congress (2024): Long. Hard. Slog. »
Obama to farmer: “Me? Regulate? Call the USDA.” 2 days later, still getting the runaround.
Obama to farmer: “Me? Regulate? Call the USDA, they’ll set you straight.” 2 days later, professional reporter is still getting the runaround. »