by Henry Oliner | Aug 24, 2019 | Politics
The Wall Street Journal used this phrase in a recent editorial, Cut the Trump Uncertainty Tax. I supported much of the tax cuts, but their effect cannot be considered in isolation. Taxes are part of a collection of friction costs; if taxes are cut but other friction...
by Henry Oliner | Oct 6, 2018 | Politics, Progressivism
In his biography Righteous Indignation, Andrew Breitbart recalled the pivotal moment in the Clarence Thomas hearings, watching three ‘privileged’ white men; Ted Kennedy, Joe Biden, and Howard Metzenbaum, assault a black justice from humble roots with unsubstantiated...
by Henry Oliner | Oct 18, 2016 | Politics
From Erick Erickson at The Resurgent, The Tea Party is Dead. Good Riddance The tea party began through common cause and it died because too many of its members failed at discernment and, as a result, were betrayed from within and from without only then to grow too...
by Henry Oliner | Oct 10, 2016 | Politics
From Erick Erickson at The Resurgent, The Tea Party is Dead. Good Riddance As the anger grew within the tea party activists, something vital to their cause never did — discernment. Some activists decided they could make a quick buck. Some consultants learned...
by Henry Oliner | Sep 2, 2016 | Politics
Erick Erickson with a very good summary of the brief rise and fall of the Tea Party on his site, The Resurgent- The Tea Party is Dead. Good Riddance. The national tea party groups started fighting internally and with each other. The local groups felt like the national...
