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California’s Two-Hundred-and-Fifty-Thousandaires
According to California Governor Jerry Brown, the state of California will face a $16 billion budget deficit this year. In an attempt to raise more revenue, Governor Brown has proposed increasing taxes on people making more than $250,000. Ironically, he is labeling this as a “millionaire’s tax.” Explaining how a tax on those earning $250,000 ...
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Regulation Creates Jobs?
by Jim SwiftDubious claims about regulation-created prosperity from OIRA Administrator Cass Sunstein aside, the focus on regulation and its impact on the economy is often either misunderstood or rarely given an in depth look. However, there is no doubt that regulation creates jobs. Sorry fellow conservatives, we have to be honest and admit that regulation does creates jobs. ...
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True At Large Bids — How Politics Robs Tournament Dreams
by C.A. LeBronI am and always will be a sports purist. I believe the true home-run king will always be Roger Maris. I believe smaller goalie pads makes for great hockey and I believe the NCAA tournament committee is ruining “amateur” athletics by paying political favor to the traditional national collegiate power houses for yet another year. ...
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The Anti-Human Left
America’s far left wing hates humanity. This sounds overly rhetorical, sensational, and irrational, but as a conclusion it only came to me after hours of attempting to reason the following question: Why is the left trying to provide free access to a range of birth control measures for women, while not pushing for any other ...
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America’s Dumbest Jobs Program
by Jim SwiftRoughly once a week, I will hear District of Columbia Mayor Vince Gray pop on to WTOP, my favorite radio station for short drives, telling listeners about his “One City, One Hire” jobs program. The advertisement, as I am sure you can guess, is optimistic and has catchy music. The content of the advertisement, however, ...
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Clint Midwestwood
Superbowl 46 featured two things that, I think, get too much attention: The Boston/New York sports rivalries, and commercial nostalgia about the glory days of American manufacturing. Much and more has been written about the former, I will focus on the latter. For most Americans, the Superbowl’s biggest appeal are the commercials (Odd, I know). ...
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This Band Will Change Your Life, I Swear
by P.C. FlaglerIn the summer of 2004, the movie Garden State was released to theaters nation wide. The film was a modest hit, especially considering the small budget, and it is arguably a challenge to find any current/late 20-something year old who didn’t see the film in college. Eight years later, the film is mostly forgotten. ...
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Job Searching Is Hell
Earlier this week, I received a generic rejection letter for a job vacancy. It was from some corporation with a name hobbled together via successive corporate takeovers and poorly conceived acronyms; I had never heard of them before. How would I have? — I never applied for the job. Getting not-hired for a job I ...
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Front-Running From Behind
After some uncertainty in Iowa and South Carolina, Florida and Nevada appeared to convince most attention-paying people that Mitt Romney’s initial losses were just a few small bumps in his otherwise smooth road to the nomination. After all, he had wins in hand from the small and moderate New Hampshire, the large and right-wing Florida, ...
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Beer Wars: A Documentary Brewed With Bias
by Jim SwiftInspired by my recent sponsorship of the documentary “Beer Hunter” — I was interested to see the documentary “Beer Wars” on my Amazon Prime video list. About ten minutes into the film, I hit pause, grabbed a pen and paper, and started it over again. I knew I was going to have some problems with ...