Or they simply may be economically rational people. Either way, it's revolting. From reader Jeff, taken in Bradenton, Florida: ...
This is the second time this week a reader has e-mailed me referencing one of my early blog posts, the first being “I still remember your ‘death to the Kulaks’ post from a while back!” Thanks to a reader from Seattle who e-mailed me last night...
The anti-1% street agitation is the fulfillment of a process we have seen unfold since Obama's 2008 campaign, a process by which a group of various definitions of wealth is isolated and targeted for demagoguery. It was the Top 5%, then the Top 2%, now it's...
So e-mails reader and commenter KC_MRBB KC_MRBB, with a link to the video below, referring to my prior post The “Richest 5%” Are The New Kulaks from October 27, 2008. Related: The Revolt of the Kulaks Has Begun...
... it will be wrapped in a John Galt bumper sticker and carrying a Vietnam service ribbon. Who could have imagined the revolt of the kulaks would arrive so soon? Thanks to Dr. J. for this photo he took yesterday of the rear window of a pick up truck in Ithaca. ...
I defy you to point to a single sentence written by Marx or Lenin complaining about corporate jet owners, or a single sentence uttered by Obama demanding that the kulaks pay their "fair share" of the harvest. Thanks to reader Rich who writes: I saw this pair of...
The Revolt of the Kulaks has come to California. Via Drudge, California's attempt to tax internet sales has met with a reaction: Gov. Jerry Brown has signed into law California's tax on Internet sales through affiliate advertising which will immediately cut small-business website revenue 20% to 30%, experts...
Barack Obama promised us hand-to-hand combat, and his speech yesterday was the start.The nation is facing a debt crisis of historic proportions, but nothing will be done because Obama already has launched his presidential campaign. A compromise must included serious changes to unsustainable entitlements which...
Thanks to Instapundit. for reminding me that it was just two years ago that Rick Santelli fired off the Rant Heard 'Round The World:It gets better with time, and applies equally to the public sector unions which expect taxpayers to subsidize pensions and benefits which...
I traveled extensively throughout the Soviet Union during the early 1980s, both with groups and on my own approved itineraries. I also lived in Moscow, and had a chance to slip out of the ring road with Soviet friends into the countryside, which was not permitted...
Did you hear, all that talk about being fiscally conservative really is just a Cloward-Piven strategy in reverse. Rather than overwhelming the system with debt, entitlements, welfare by another name, and dependence upon government, conservatives are seeking to underwhelm the system.With a usual flair for the dramatic, Steve...
Need I say more to Barney Frank than Margery Egan says today in The Boston Herald:After 30 years, Barney Frank finally lost my vote.On election night, he lost my respect as well.Frank’s road rage acceptance speech was an out-of-body experience.There was the congressional king of...
Obama -- who actually did take substantial illegal foreign money for his campaign -- is accusing Republicans of being quite unAmerican for supposedly taking foreign money as part of this election cycle.Put aside the sheer audacity and falsity of this dopiness.This is exactly what I predicted time and time again...
Obama can't let go of his war on the "rich." It was an integral part of his campaign, and an even more integral part of his presidency.Obama's obsession with playing class warfare politics is his undoing, not because it necessarily loses him support in isolation, but because...
Allowing people to keep more of what they earn is a horrible giveaway tantamount to welfare for the rich, rendering anyone who would suggest such a thing evil and greedy.That attitude is the fundamental public policy prescription of the Democratic Party and supportive economists, as...
We really do need wealthy people, after all. Wealthy Reduce Buying in a Blow to the Recovery:The economic recovery has been helped in large part by the spending of the most affluent. Now, even the rich appear to be tightening their belts.Late last year, the...
There is a must read article at City Journal by author Claire Berlinski, A Hidden History of Evil - Why doesn’t anyone care about the unread Soviet archives?:In the world’s collective consciousness, the word “Nazi” is synonymous with evil. It is widely understood that the...
One of the perks of being a big time blogger (hah) is that sometimes people send me stuff for free. As in a free copy of Zev Chafets' biography of Rush Limbaugh, An Army of One.Which now occupies a hallowed place on my bookshelf next...
