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Sunday, 8-10pm est
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One of the great things about doing Pundit Review Radio is speaking to subject matter experts.
Sunday evening at 8pm est, we are honored to have as our guest someone who is a subject matter expert on both the military and the media. He has served as a Marine, a Green Beret, a high ranking pentagon official (deputy assistant secretary of the Air Force in the Reagan administration) and now he is working as a journalist focusing on national security issues. He was even embedded with the Third Armored Calvary Regiment to cover the conflict with Iraq in 2003.
Few people alive have the type of background, experience and insight on security issues as Jack Kelly of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Real Clear Politics. We are truly honored to have him on the show.
You can check out Jack’s tremendous column here.
Matt from Blackfive will join us once again at 9pm for a special Mother’s Day version of Someone You Should Know, our weekly collaboration to bring the inspirational, true stories of the men and women that are fighting for us around the world to the radio. The series is also available for download at iTunes.
After Someone You Should Know, we have a special mystery guest who will be joining Matt to discuss war on terror issues like only new media subject matter experts can. You don’t want to miss it!!!
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Michelle Malkin and Bryan Preston (Junk Yard Blog) took a field trip to remind us that the people at the NSA are quiet heroes.
Watch it here.
If you haven’t checked out Hot Air, you should. This is the future of citizen journalism.
On Pundit Review Radio, we were fortunate enough spend an hour talking social media and citizen journalism with Glenn Reynolds, Instapundit, and Paul Gillin, former Exec. Editor at Computerworld and founding editor of Tech Target. Paul has a successful consulting practice focusing on social media, check him out.
You can listen to the interview here.
It is also available at iTunes, just search for Pundit Review Radio Podcast.
We’d have thought that the Democrats who are now voting to let taxes increase would be thrilled to know that things turned out better than they had feared. Americans are better off despite Democratic predictions that, as Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi put it back in 2003, tax cuts would “damage long term economic growth.”
Well, we all know that the Keynesian/Krugman/Rubin tax and spend liberals in Congress were almost unanimously incorrect in concurring with “Fancy” Nancy Pelosi.
If ever there was a market test of economic policy, the last three years have been it. The stock market has recovered from its implosion in Bill Clinton’s last year in office, unemployment is down to 4.7%, and growth has averaged 3.9% in the three years since those tax cuts passed — well above the post World War II average and more than twice the growth rate in Euroland.
According to the Joint Economic Committee of Congress the Bush tax cuts on personal individual income as well as dividends and capital gains were a success accross the board:
Between May 2003 and May 2006, asset values in the U.S. have also risen by $13 trillion thanks to the stock and housing market rallies. Just the growth in asset values since 2003 exceeds the entire net worth of all but a handful of nations. Democrats who want the 15% rate on dividends and capital gains to go back up to 39.6% and 20% are saying that a big tax increase won’t affect any of this.
As to the doom and gloomer class warriors who contend that the tax cuts only benefitted the “rich,” For the one millionith time, the Bush tax cuts “soaked the rich” more than any other “progressive” tax cut in history.
The tax payments of the wealthiest 3% of Americans increased at twice the rate of the tax payments by everyone else from 2001-2004. And those richest 3% now pay nearly as much income taxes as the other 97% combined. While the incomes of the rich have risen, the lower 2003 tax rates are still soaking them for the government’s benefit.
One would think the libs would be loving all the money from the “rich” pouring into the Treasury to fund their pork barrel spending and entitlement programs. But that would mean that they may have to give Bush some credit- a virtual impossibility of course. So, they will oppose extension of the very same Bush tax cuts that helped the economy grow steadily for the last 16 quarters claiming they unfarily benefited the “rich” despite the overwheling evidence to the contrary.
Perhaps they should recall the words of a famous Democrat from another era: “The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital . . . the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy.” That was John F. Kennedy, and he’s still right today.
Check out this chart at TaxProf Blog from the Joint Economic Committee. It demonstrates once and for all that the Bush tax cuts have been among the most progressive in history. That means the rich pay a higher percentage of taxes today than before the tax cuts.
So, what does that make Democrats who always claim the exact opposite, that Bush’s tax cuts were “for the rich”?
If these people had an intellectually honest bone in their bodies, they would come out and say “this is the exact kind of tax cut we like, the richest among us pay a higher percentage and the poor pay an increasingly smaller amount.”
This will never happen. “Tax cuts for the rich” is a sacrament of the Democrat party, facts and evidence be damned.
And get a load of this ridiculous, over the top “tax cuts for the rich” media spin from Good Morning America. What a bunch of clowns.
To summarize, what have we learned about taxes this week…
1. As a result of the Bush tax cut, the rich pay more taxes than ever, exactly how the liberals think it should be.
2. When you cut taxes, more money comes into the Treasury.
April surplus largest since ’01 as growth boosts tax proceeds
Bloomberg News
Published May 11, 2006
WASHINGTON — The federal government’s April budget surplus rose to $118.9 billion, the largest for any month since 2001, as the fastest economic growth in more than two years buoyed tax revenue.
The surplus compares with $57.7 billion in the same month a year earlier. April is typically a surplus month because of the tax deadline for individuals. It’s the second year in a row that tax receipts have exceeded government and private forecasts.
“Government tax receipts have moved into overdrive,” said Chris Rupkey, senior financial economist at Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ Ltd. in New York. “This is a sign the expansion is solid.”
The sad thing is, despite evidence to the contrary, the debate over taxes will not change.
It has already been established that George W. Bush causes cancer in Hollywood liberals,
Actor Sean Penn admitting that the stress of living under the current administration was making it tough for him to quit smoking.
And now unfunny comedian Richard Lewis has infomed us that he is slipping back into a state of depression, the kind he felt after quitting drugs twelve years ago. The reason, of course, the Bush administration,
Fast forward to now. I’m married, working, performing, doing charitable work, helping other addicts, and working for as many political candidates to get elected in 2006 as I can. And yet, with the free-floating anxiety seemingly under control for the most part, I still feel like a zombie just going through the motions.
The reason? The mountain of abuses and lies and corruption and rationalizations, along with the fear of a majority of politicians (especially of my own beloved Democrats) to really level with power and authenticity about the nightmare of this administration. That, coupled with the obliteration of separation of church and state, our privacy rights, the pathetic nothingness done to help the racist divide, rampant poverty and homelessness, pathetic under-funded schools for most of our kids, massive zero health insurance for almost 50 million people, and on and on. That this is happening while the gargantuan collection of egos in powerful places continue to obliterate the progress America should be striving for, is again tragically getting me close to hiding under the covers.
As if you needed another reason to despise these self absorbed Hollywood fools.
If we can’t find a unifying, brave, charismatic, All-American voice to attract enough voters to get their asses out to the polls to make this “land of the free” a land to be proud of for ourselves and for our allies to respect and quickly get on another course, I’ll probably keep writing jokes, but I’m certain I’ll be doing it from my bed with my only goal being to turn off the news and die sober.
This post could the the funniest thing he has done in years.
Bill at Citizen Journal did. Thanks for noticing.
More details to come soon.
PS: This was such a nice gesture by Bill that I almost don’t want to mention that the Red Sox are beating the Yankees 11-3 in the 8th inning. Almost.
The folks at Blue Mass Group, a liberal blog focused on Massachusetts politics, busted one-time Democrat front-runner Tom Reilly’s campaign for posting nasty messages on the web site of Blue Mass Group’s preferred candidate, Deval Patrick.
It seemed only fair to check in with the Reilly campaign before publishing this post, so I called Corey Welford, Reilly’s campaign spokesman. After looking into it, Welford called me back and confirmed that the comment in question did indeed originate at Reilly HQ. According to Welford, the comment was not posted by a staffer, but by a volunteer “who got carried away.” Welford emphasized that the comment “was not authorized by the campaign,” and said that the problem will be addressed.
Attorney General Tom Reilly’s campaign for governor has imploded, from his inappropriate involvement in a drunk driving case, to his admission of Kennedy-like behavior in his youth and especially his disasterous 24 hour selection of Marie St. Fluer as his Lt. Governor. St Fleur, best known in Mass. at the time for pushing a bill to give state college tuition discounts to illegal immigrants, yes, you read that correctly, was outed as a major tax cheat within hours of her selection. She dropped out (was pushed) the next morning.
They had some good advice for the Reilly campaign,
..if you didn’t know this already, you should know it now: there really is no such thing as true anonymity on the internet.
Unfortunately, many people that should know better don’t.
The guys at Blue Mass Group were recently feature in the Boston Globe, along with the Margolis brothers.