Full Throttle

Something is working and it's called Capitalism

I love it when conservative ideas work. The media and liberals scramble for excuses in an attempt to belittle and undermine the fruits of success, creating a rather comical circus in which socialism is the ringleader. Recent reports are showing a fascinating thing: tax revenue is increasing and the deficit is shrinking because of it. I guess those tax cuts are just slamming us around, huh?

We are seeing the result of Bush's tax cuts; increase in revenue. Welcome to number one rule of capitalism: he with the lowest price makes the most money. It's a simple thing, a direct cause-and-effect chain. We cut taxes and the economy grows. This lets us have, guess what, MORE TAXES.

The New York Times carries an article reporting on this revenue loaded with the typical spin that that paper loves to extort. I point you to Wizbang's piece on both the taxes and New York Times story for a proper study, Paul does a good job presenting it all to you. The part I really love in the NYT article is where it points out the raising revenue is coming from the Rich. Oh, what is this?

"An unexpectedly steep rise in tax revenues from corporations and the wealthy [emp. mine] is driving down the projected budget deficit this year, even though spending has climbed sharply because of the war in Iraq and the cost of hurricane relief"

Fascinating. After all that bantering and whining we've heard about tax cuts for the rich, look who we are bilking the most from. Do you enjoy that irony, just a bit? It looks like Bush's tax cuts are working, that capitalism, when allowed to flourish properly, works. Now if we could only get Bush to trim his decadent and exorbitant spending, then we'd be doing really well. Bush is only getting a little bit of the puzzle right, the rest of the pieces are still a giant jumble.

If we'd stop spending so much then we would have even more revenue. But I guess Bush only has a limited grasp of capitalism.

Fight the socialists
- Maddog
it's all about the benjamins baby

"So I got an internet today..."

Man, what is this. Evidently that whole deal about having a net neutrality admendment was tied in the Senate. Our intrepid Alaskan Senator, good ole' Uncle Ted Stevens voted against the bill. Hear's a quote from his speech saying why:

"I just the other day got, an internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday and I just got it yesterday. Why?

Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the internet commercially."

Man, WHAT? This guy has no idea what he is talking about!

I took my little bro to the tennis courts to play tennis with some of his friends and promtply fell asleep in the back of my truck. Yeah for sleeping in the middle of a beautiful summer day. It was really pretty today and the Sun is still shining. Gotta love our midnight sun. I'm out,

feelings are boring, kissing is awesome;
- Maddog
them hot summer nights

CATO, and all that applies

I just got out of my Anthropology class in which there was a fascinating discussion on political theories and the rise of superpowers. I love political science to death. I enjoy it so much I'm thinking about dropping Spanish to a minor and focusing on a PS major along with the Biology. We had a very interesting talk about the factors of cultural dominance, trends in the near the future and if ecological/geographical features are more important then political/cultural features. It was good stuff.

I also found that in my discussion group of ten people, only one was an Evolutionist. The rest were all Creationist, leading to an interesting discussion on Creationism vs. Evolution that left the Evolutionist squirming. It was nice to hear! Most of them weren't really interested in the politics aspects, only me, the Evolutionist and two others carried on the socio-political debates, but when Creationism was brought up, everyone entered the fray. It was good stuff.

I finished Guns, Germs and Steel and overall it's an interesting read. A good look into the mind of ecological-based historians. The typical attitude of a highly-educated American who is going to solve everyone problems with his advanced learning. Pisses me off. Diamond talks about Windhoek and Namibia, the same city that I went to, and their factors. I'm sorry but you cannot bring those concepts into such a radically different environment as that. The whole shock of a German-dominated society can't be thought of in American terms of a stratification. it's the typical thing of "We can make people better" mentality that neo-liberals bring into the fray.

Speaking of liberals, I've found an awesome resource on libertarianism and classical liberalism. I really struggle with several key issues that Republicans stand on (such as opposition to Laissez-faire and decentralization) and it's hard to find resources that really speak to true Federalism. One such place, however, is the CATO Institute, a Washington DC think-tank and public policy foundation. While there are some policies I don't agree (their foriegn policies smack too much of First World War era- isolationism), I really like where most of their ideas stand. The Policy Studies they put out are wonderful. In fact, I'm currently using this Policy Analysis on the need for decentralization and withdrawal of Federal involvement in education in my research paper. Reading through their stuff is great. They've got a good mission statement:

"The Cato Institute seeks to broaden the parameters of public policy debate to allow consideration of the traditional American principles of limited government, individual liberty, free markets and peace. Toward that goal, the Institute strives to achieve greater involvement of the intelligent, concerned lay public in questions of policy and the proper role of government. "

I also heartily support their Social Security Project. They are pushing for privatization of SS, something that should have been done a long time ago. Really, it's good stuff. I'll be wading through their excellent website for awhile. I'm defiantly got more ties to paleoconservatism then anything else, however I don't support the idea of total isolationism. Still, CATO has some good reads. I'd suggest a look through. I'm off to write my paper, for a second time.

- Maddog

everbody's heading to the desert, have a real good time

We do as we do, not as we say

Interesting article on Wired that talks about how the copyright liberals have failed to defend the Conservatives who are being pushed around with copyrights.

In the recent elections, Kansas voted a brilliant new resolution: present Intelligent Design as a possible alternative to evolution. Why not actually present the idea that the Evolution Theory is, in fact, a Theory and there are alternate theories out there about the start of everything? It's only logical. Kansas decided to offer this. Well, two scientific associations decided to be bullies. They refused them the copyright to use their material if Kansas pursued this. And no one has protested how much of copyright abuse this is. This kind of thing is the stuff that copyleft-ists have been fighting. Not a peep is made.

Pretty typical. "We do as we do, not as we say".

More laters,
- Maddog
loaded god complex, cock it and pull it

Alito's Tech

I haven't touched much yet on Politics, something I need to start doing. I've got a piece in the works about Alito but for right now, as I'm inbetween classes, I want to point out a good article from CNET News about Alito's views on Open-Source, Copyright and Police technology. I'm really into Open-Source so it's interesting to see his views.

If you don't know, and you should, Samuel Alito is the new Supreme Court Nominee. He's got some good views, I really like his stance on copyrights for the technology industry. He's really into pure logic, something I dig. Plus, he believes in limited constitutional constraint for the Supreme Court. Anyways, give this article a once-over while I work on something more in depth.