High Ground Underground

Merry Christmas.  But don’t be surprised if Santa doesn’t come your way this year.... I would note that the same may begin to apply to charities, whose function government also seems to want to pre-empt. Fiscal Solutions As we edge ever closer to the fiscal cliff, Bainer has said he’ll compromise and go along with raising the taxes on the rich, if the Dems come up with meaningful spending cuts & reforms.  We’ll see.  But increasing taxes on the rich will pay for only 8 days of operation of the federal government.  A drop in the bucket when the national debt is on par with the GDP.  Clearly we have a spending problem, not an under-taxing problem.  Mark Levin noted that about 60% of states have governors and legislatures in Republican hands.  And it is they who are pushing back against federal government encroachments and neglects such as waivers on Obamacare (24 of the states so far), immigration enforcement, and right-to-work.  He places much of our remaini

In addition to many people I run into (e.g., at the gym) who freely share that they are still in mourning, there’s been much hand-wringing and blame in the post-mortem analyses of the election.  Too much of it has been directed at Mitt Romney – a great candidate who gave it his all.  Ann Coulter explains how and why that blame is mis-directed.  She is reinforced in articles by Rabbi Steven Pruzansky, Kimberly Strassel and Joel Rosenberg, all of whom (along with myself) point out factors like minority vs. religious values turnout, growth of entitlement mentality, a long & vicious primary, an incumbent, etc. Here’s a table of contents for this somewhat long post: 1. “Romney was not the Problem,” by Ann Coulter (interesting contrast w. Reagan, etc.) 2.  “More than 6 Million Self-Described Evangelicals Voted for Obama,” by Joel Rosenberg (exit polling analysis of religious turnout and voting) & my analysis of the low Evangelical vote 3. “The GOP Turnout Myth,” by Kim