Now that taxes have gone up for everyone making $400,000 and above, and couples making more than $450,000, reflecting the Obama Administration’s “balanced” approach to deficit reduction — it is worth examining just how effective the tax hikes will be at reining in the debt. They will raise just $30 billion this year, doing almost nothing to pay for the $1.2 trillion of new debt the government expects to incur in 2013.
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Old and Worn Out? Why Not Suicide?
Eighty-eight years old and in failing health, Lillian B. Rubin speculates about our society’s fear of death, the taboo surrounding elder suicide, and her own struggles with “ambivalence” about taking her own life. She challenges the notion that suicide is the coward’s way out, insisting that – on the contrary – to accept the fact of one’s “diminishing existence” and to take decisive action to end one’s suffering is an act of immense courage.
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Recent American Clarion Articles
Can America Endure its Snowflakes, Demons and Democrats?
Not only was conservative speaker Ann Coulter forced out of her speaking engagement at University of California-Berkeley, but following the riots there, a student senator told the school paper that the continued presence of the police on campus was “re-traumatizing” students on campus. To think
The Last Man Standing
As I was driving down the highway the other day, I noticed the car in front of me — a Toyota Prius — one of those electric hybrid cars that environmentalists love to be seen in, as it shows how concerned they are about saving the planet. What first caught my attention was that this vehicle was
Enemies Within Re-Writing American History
The founder of the ACLU, Roger Baldwin, stated, “I am for socialism, disarmament, for abolishing the state itself…I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and the sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the
Anti-Children Conversion Therapy Ban Bill Passed in Connecticut
Conversion Therapy Ban? All the euphemisms are used to get this bill to be emotional, caring and helpful to CT’s children, but it is a bill from the depths of Hell and a vessel to keep imprisoned those children with psychological issues who struggle with the trans-gender and homosexuality mental
Modern ‘Diversity’ is A Lie
The current shibboleth that is widely touted and accepted without question today is the claim that diversity is a value to be embraced by all. In fact diversity in many quarters is being forced upon hapless students in the educational institutions of our land. But upon closer examination, it is not
The America Healthcare Dialectic Cannot Stop Here
When we consider the rightness or wrongness of any federal government program or agency the discussion of its “rightness” must always begin with the question of authority. Does the federal government have the authority to do this thing in the first
SOS: Speaking of Seniors – They Were Surprised!
I brought the chart that I usually use when I speak about Medicare problems and what I do to fix them. I explained that the Medicare system breaks down hundreds of times every day. That is the most common problem with the Medicare system. It is the problem that government bureaucrats and government
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