Stop me if you"ve heard this one before: There are some jobs Americans won"t do. Therefore, we need Third World labor to come pick up the slack. If I had a nickel for every time I heard that line parroted in the press, I"d cover the yearly salary of all the migrant strawberry pickers in California. Regrettably, the "jobs Americans won"t do" trope is treated like just another piece of locus communis. Economists repeat it endlessly. Big-business types love to deploy it (and collect the windfall profits from employing cut-rate labor). Media moguls believe it. ...
Next year should be a banner year for the GOP, and may yet be. Obamacare, a “train wreck” about to happen, says Democratic Sen. Max Baucus, goes into full effect Jan. 1, with the popular ...
For those who still try to draw parallels between the Tea Party and the Occupy movement, allow me to explain: The Tea Party represents all the people working, producing, and PAYING for everything, ...
For Democrats like Harry Reid, who called them “evil-mongers,” and Nancy Pelosi, who called them “un-American,” the NBC News poll must have hit like a ...
The doctor shoved the syringe into the old man's neck. He collapsed in convulsions before lying still. The Grim Reaper cackled surprisingly loudly in the background, as ...
In one sense, I halfway agree with Nancy Pelosi. Screaming or shouting down politicians or fellow citizens in a public forum isn’t exactly productive. Yet I also agree with ...
While the dissident Left has curiously become mute under Obama, the dissident Right has turned up the volume in questioning a Democratic president whose agenda includes some of ...
Or, the Story Behind My Historic Battle Against Racial Hatred and Intolerance. One trick in the direct mail business is to give people a reason to send back the reply envelope ...
Today I interview James Ostrowski, libertarian extraordinaire, lawyer, writer, and tea party organizer. Mr. Ostrowski is the founder of Free Buffalo (2005), and author of the tea ...
What the tea parties represent more than anything, is something that would have never been possible on the Right a year ago - a substantial, anti-government grassroots movement ...
According to Paul Krugman, the some 700 "Tea Parties" that sprung up in all 50 states yesterday weren"t really about taxes and government spending. They were instead ...
It is no coincidence that some of the most interesting and promising developments on the Right today are not only coming from the grassroots, but are far removed from the ...
Young Americans for Liberty is the continuation of the Students for Ron Paul organization which had established chapters nationwide during the election. While many if not most ...
My gentle (and not so gentle) readers are all urged to join the Constitution Party, the Christmas celebration of which for Lancaster County I had the pleasure of attending last ...
A lot of cyber-ink has been spilled over a post by Ross Douthat arguing that grassroots populists need elites. At one level, of course, Douthat is perfectly ...
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