Tea Party Agonistes

December 6, 2011 is the date of the last update. Read my articles:

Your ‘Fair Share’ in the New Tax Rate Regime

American Elections: The Paragon of Democracy?

The Missouri GOP Wakes Up

Tax Rates for Limiting the Leviathan

Who's the Real Tea Party Candidate?

Joe Stiglitz Wants Your Money

The Left's Big Obsession … newer version HERE … humor? …

Are Drunken Hobos Nullifying America's Elections? ... humor? ...

Inequality: It’s a Good Thing ... also here ...

Creative Destruction in Kansas City?

Tea Parties are like the confederates or something

Stop Coddling Warren Buffett

Tax Reform for a Broke Nation

What took the S&P downgrade so long? … for the Tea Party

Credit Downgrade: Where do we go to get our good name back?

A Ridley Scott Movie for Conservatives

Debt Ceiling: Anything But Spending Cuts

Paul Krugman on Default: Crazy for You … Tenth Amendment Center

Debt Ceiling: The Long Run Is Here … a short blog

Bill O’Reilly Addresses the Tea Party

Can Increased Demand Save the Economy?

Debt Ceiling: Groping for Clarity

ObamaCare and the King’s Royal Deer … also here

Debt Ceiling: The Trap of Budget Cuts in the ‘Out Years’

Presidential Elections: An End Run Around the Constitution?

The “Real” Tax Rates on Top Earners

The Debt Ceiling Showdown in an Uncertain Recovery

Bobby Fischer Against the World

Paul Krugman: The Lesser of Two Evils?

The Ever-Shifting Price of ObamaCare

Hit and Run Journalism in Kansas City

The Debt Ceiling: Who’s Holding Whom Hostage?

Removing the Payroll Tax Cap

Social Security ‘Whoppers’ and the Compliant Media

NY Times columnist wrong: Congress Can End Social Security Whenever They So Choose

The Price of Government Employees

Robert Reich: Who You Calling a Liar?

Paul Krugman: Another Day Older and Deeper in Debt

Kansas City Star whitewashes Senator McCaskill’s offenses

‘Waiving’ goodbye to the Constitution

The Mahdi in the Movies … see a great movie clip

The Unbearable Lightness of the Social Security “Trust Fund”

Who’s afraid of a little election fraud?

The Individual Mandate: Is It a Tax?

The Limits of Federal Power: ObamaCare on Trial

Tea Partiers concerned about America, watch this VIDEO.

Puccini is the best intro to opera -- click below and change your life:



The Restoration is not yet complete.

Tea Party a gogo

IGNORE the above date, it's actually December 24, 2010; I'm updating an old post with new stuff. Read my recent articles at American Thinker, TCS Daily (now at Jim Glassman's Ideas in Action), GOPUSA, David Horowitz's NewsRealBlog, and The Tenth Amendment Center:

Can the Tea Party Triumph Against Voter Fraud?
Obama Ignores History, Recovery Stalls
Shrink the Fed Before It Shrinks the Dollar .... also here
How We Can Reverse ObamaCare ... also here
Fraud in the November Elections? ... a job for the Tea Party
Tea Party Clarity on the Deficit
How to Fix Pro Baseball
Money Is Still Money, Isn't It? ... updated version here and here
The Pride of Progressive Programs
The Day the Debt Stood Still ... also here
Shared Sacrifice in Obamaland
Obamacare Flushes the Constitution
Obama in the Age of Reaganomics
The Price of Everything
The Reindustrialization of America
Federal Revenue and the Economy
Counting Foreigners in the U.S. Census
The Senseless Census: A Solution
Trillion-Dollar Deficits and the Press
The Dollar's Demise is not Inevitable
The Tea Party's Big Worry
Money and Ruin
The Individual Mandate: We're All Amish Now
Roosevelt Redux?

Ain’t YouTube grand? Folks upload one treasure after another. I found these two gems recently and I’m dedicating them to Mark Steyn, who seems to have a taste for song. The first is of the great Italian basso Cesare Siepi singing Cole Porter circa 1962. Siepi is the very definition of “suave.” Then, as Steyn’s from the Great White North, we have the indispensable Jon Vickers in a rendition of “Ich grolle nicht.” What a voice; what an interpretation.
...and for extra credit, identify these folks:



















ULTRACON: awaiting The Restoration in November.

Federal Overreach and the States

Congratulations, Independent voters of the Bay State. Scott Brown now becomes one of this Missouri boy's favorite senators. We expect more stunning developments from Massachusetts. And while you're here, check out my new article hot off the presses at American Thinker: Federal Overreach and the New States' Rights Movement
Today, we pay homage to Ultracon's candidate for the finest bass of all time: Nicolai Ghiaurov. Nick's voice was not only titanic, it was, IMHO, one of the few bass voices that was beautiful. BTW, I'm updating this post because the previous YouTube video was taken down. I recently screened Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows, which featured the scene in Don Giovanni where the Don is sent to Hell. Here's Nick as the Don in that scene. In case you're not familiar with the opera, Nick is the second voice.ULTRACON: a piquant blend of paleocon, neocon and 9/11-con, with zesty libertarian overtones...Try it, you'll like it.

The Church of Gheorghiu

Read the latest from Ultracon at TCS Daily:

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Borg

NOTE: If you find the Borg metaphor apt, you might enjoy this video of actress Alice Krige commenting about Power vis-à-vis her role as the Borg Queen.

And now to the serious stuff: The Divine Angela.

The following video is of Mimi's Act I aria from La Boheme. It demonstrates what a terrific actress Ms. Gheorghiu is. Of course the main thing is the voice.

If you want more, find in the playlist returned at the end "O soave fanciulla", which takes you to the end of act.

Ultracon: Good for what ails you.

Modest Proposals

Here's a recent article that ran at American Thinker which looked at the coverage of Nick Griffin's appearance on the BBC. I included links to several British websites that had videos of the event and the protests:

Rightwing Fascists and Other Fables

it also has a plug for an important book.

Although this proposal appeared at GOPUSA, it should be adopted by the Dems, too:

The Presidential Primary System And What To Do About It

I don't like the idea of changing the Constitution, but here's a change I do endorse:

Two Tweaks to the Constitution

and then there's The Divine Angela:

ULTRACON: the pause that refreshes