Minor Thoughts

From the Wall Street Journal:

As the big tax increase day of January 1, 2011 approaches, the Democrats running Congress are beginning to lay out their priorities. Get ready for bigger rate increases than previously advertised.

Last week the Senate Budget Committee passed a fiscal 2011 budget resolution that includes an increase in the top tax rate on dividends to 39.6% from the current 15%—a 164% increase. This blows past the 20% rate that President Obama proposed in his 2011 budget and which his economic advisers promised on these pages in 2008.

Quote of the day.

Obama laughs off the charge of socialist behavior — and to be fair, socialism isn’t the precise term to affix to his ideas. It’s more like Robin Hood economics. On a recent campaign stop, Obama joked that, by the end of the week, McCain would be accusing him ”of being …

Life is full of risk. No matter how hard we try, we can’t eliminate that risk. Nor should we. Risk leads directly to rewards. Not all of the time. Sometimes risk leads to failure. But those failures teach us what we need to know in order to reach the rewards. More than that, it’s impossible …

Seriously?

Thirteen campaign workers for Barack Obama yesterday yanked their voter registrations and ballots in Ohio after being warned by a prosecutor that temporary residents can’t vote in the battleground state.

A dozen staffers – including Obama Ohio spokeswoman Olivia Alair and James Cadogan, who recently joined Team Obama – signed …

Lately I’ve been thinking about how Christians should respond to political outcomes. I’m a Libertarian. I believe that government governs best which governs least. Liberty loses no matter who wins — Senator Obama wins or Senator McCain. Both support a stronger, more assertive government that strips away liberty. How should I respond to that loss?

Well, …

I didn’t need any more reasons to dislike John McCain. But I have another one anyway. Continuing his general theme of believing that government employees are just plain better than regular folk, he wants copyright law to favor politicians over everyone else.

(Via McCain seeks special ’fair use’ copyright rules for VIPs.)

John McCain’s presidential …

Yesterday and today, joe chapman and I discussed Obama’s votes on the Infant Born Alive Act. joe is distressed at my strong reaction to Obama’s vote and has been urging me not to be a single issue voter over abortion.

I was planning to write a rebuttal to that charge. Then James and Adam stepped in …

In case it hasn’t been obvious from some of my recent posts, I don’t like Senator Obama. Why? Well, aside from eloquent, soaring rhetoric, I haven’t seen much about him to like. (The same is true of Senator McCain, but that’s a separate series.)

While I haven’t seen much to like, I have seen several things …

Barack Obama didn’t do so well at Pastor Rick Warren’s forum Saturday night. How did the Obama campaign react? By whining and claiming that somebody else cheated:

I’ve been looking into all this buzz that McCain somehow cheated — that he wasn’t in a ”cone of silence” — during Barack Obama’s half of the …