Category Archives: In the “Mainstream”

Milton Friedman . . . more relevant today than ever before

Posted on July 31, 2012 by Sanely Insane

Milton Friedman is 100 today although he’s been quiet for the last six years. . . While it’s painful to live with Phil Donahue for even a few minutes it’s worth the time to watch this entire appearance in which … Continue reading →

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Oh FRACK!

Posted on July 23, 2012 by Sanely Insane

Michael Barone contrasts the Booming North Dakota City Williston with the bust known as Fremont, California home of Solyndra.  The message is clear, free markets result in an ordered chaos and pick winners and losers with private – not taxpayer … Continue reading →

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OK, so Al Gore Didn’t invent the internet. Neither did “THE Government”

Posted on July 23, 2012 by Sanely Insane

President Obama, in the same speech in which he hectored entrepreneurs for their audacity, not of hope, but for ambition, claimed that the government created the internet.  Gordon Crovitz dispatches such nonsense efficiently.  No, it didn’t, and according to none … Continue reading →

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It Pays to Be Poor

Posted on July 22, 2012 by Sanely Insane

In a post bound to drive the loony left, loonier . . they can’t get leftier . . . Robert Frank of CNBC, sister station to the little watched “Progressive” network, MSNBC cites a Congressional Budget Office report on the … Continue reading →

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Creative Destruction

Posted on July 17, 2012 by Sanely Insane

Andy Kessler offers a fine explanation of the concept of creative destruction and how new efficiencies, technologies and imagination lead to productivity, the means by which we’ll grow our way out the mess “Progressives” have made. President Obama faulted ATMs, … Continue reading →

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President Obama ‘disses education . . .

Posted on July 16, 2012 by Sanely Insane

The President in another blazing example of the corroding effects of a Punahou, Occidental, Columbia and Harvard Law education,  argues that no individual has ever created a business; not through ideas, not with hard work, not because of perseverance, not … Continue reading →

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The “Food Stamp President”

Posted on July 12, 2012 by Sanely Insane

Several months back former house speaker Newt Gingrich charged that the President has presided over an “unprecedented” rise in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, the appealing euphemism for “food stamps.”  Immediately labeled a racist by the president’s apologists, acolytes, and … Continue reading →

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It’s the spending stupid!

Posted on July 11, 2012 by Sanely Insane

John Stossel puts into terms even Progressives can understand why “taxing the ‘evil’ rich” can’t solve our financial fiasco: Progressives say: If you’re so worried about the deficit, raise taxes! But it’s a fantasy to imagine that taxing the rich … Continue reading →

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The Earth is COOLING!

Posted on July 11, 2012 by Sanely Insane

Nature, a scientific magazine favored among the left has published a study debunking decades of Progressive propaganda blaming man and the industrial development for “Global Warming” because there is none. In a more reader friendly analysis, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz … Continue reading →

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Another Progressive, i.e., Democrat city tanks . . .

Posted on July 10, 2012 by Sanely Insane

Scranton Pennsylvania, childhood home of our vice president, Lunch Bucket Joe Biden, is broke.  And in a delicious irony, the Democrat mayor, unable to grease a tax hike through his city council, has taken to using city employees, the “public … Continue reading →

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