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Big Labor poured millions of rank-and-file members’ dues into a tax hike campaign in Oregon. It worked. The “wealthy” and the “evil corporations” will now be forced to bail out government schools and social services. Look for affected business owners to start Going Galt en masse.
The Oregonian reports on the gloating by public employee union [...]

Charter member of the Team Obama Culture of Corruption
During the Christmas break, corruptocrat Sen. Chris Dodd held a press conference hailing the Senate government health care takeover bill. But he couldn’t distract from the stink of his ethics scandals and his mounting unpopularity at home.
A prescient constituent heckled him during the press conference:
“You’re not gonna [...]

Update: 11/19 9am…Holder hedges on GOP request for disclosure/recusal information…

Attorney General Eric Holder, Team Obama’s Dirty Dozen (get your trading cards here)
If you’ve been paying attention, you already know all about AG Eric Holder and his DOJ staff’s national security conflict of interest as senior partner with Covington & Burling — the prestigious Washington, D.C. [...]

“Resource.”

Stoop.

Going Galt.

A powerful manifesto from renowned composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, who fears an exodus of talent from Britain in response to high taxes:
I am 61 years old. I have lived and worked in Britain all my life. Not even in the dark days of penal Labour taxation in the Seventies did I have any intention of [...]

Strike back at the taxaholics…and get healthier, too: Good idea!

For the past two weeks, with a big hat tip to Dr. Helen Smith who diagnosed the phenomenon last fall, we’ve had a fascinating and spirited discussion here about the “Going Galt” movement that’s catching on nationwide.
There’s now even a Twitter hashtag for the phenomenon: #goinggalt.
My email box (especially after publication of my [...]

Feel the dissent!

“Going Galt” is going viral.
The phenomenon Dr. Helen Smith first diagnosed last fall has spread noticeably since our discussion of it at CPAC/CS2.0 last week and my column/blog posts/your comments throughout the past week.
The NYTimes (disparagingly, of course) picked up on it today. The Liberty Papers has a comprehensive round-up of recent blog coverage [...]

My syndicated column today spotlights the return of thrift in individual American households — a phenomenon that stands in stark contrast to the unmitigated profligacy embraced by Barack Obama’s White House.
Opposition is growing to the confisctory spending train: Witness the Senate Republican success in delaying the omni-pork, coupled with the aggressive House GOP call [...]

Scheduled to appear on Fox & Friends this morning for the regular 8:15am Eastern gig. They want to talk about the “Going Galt” phenomenon and our Wreckovery.gov photoshop contest.
*Update: See also my discussion with Instapundit Glenn Reynolds on PJTV here.*
Four more “Going Galt” items for you:
*GOP Rep. John Campbell comments to the Washington Independent:
“People [...]

“It’s not a stimulus bill, it’s a strangulation bill.”

My syndicated column today spotlights two related phenomenon: the Tea Party revolt on the streets and the “Going Galt” revolt with our wallets. For new readers who are just learning about the protest movement and want to join, the best organizational resources are Tax Day Tea Party (nationwide April 15 events), Twitter #teaparty, PJTV’s list [...]

An excellent wealth producer’s manifesto from Laura at Pursuing Holiness. Read the whole thing.
Related: A great catch from Dr. Helen on how the MSM treats rational business owners as tax “dodgers” while tax cheat Tim Geithner gets a pass.

Strike.

Busy weekend! You can watch my Saturday appearance on Washington Journal here.
The “alternative to The View” panel I appeared on with Kellyanne Conway, Jeri Thompson, Maryanne Marsh is here on PJTV.com. My favorite segment was with the brilliant Dr. Helen Smith on “Going John Galt” — a discussion you would never, ever see from the [...]

Stimuluspalooza!

This post by Dean Esmay, “calling out Michelle Malkin,” is what is known in the business as traffic bait.
So go ahead and click it and give Esmay more of the traffic he wants. I highly recommend you read his post as the classic blogospheric example of how not to argue about Islam.
Or anything else, [...]

Scoop over at Hot Air: Clinton W. Taylor reports that Yale University’s Talibani is going buh-bye…
The New York Times’ education reporter, Alan Finder, told me that he has been in contact with the Boola Boola Mullah’s financial backers, and they say he hasn’t been admitted to the regular degree program at Yale. He may [...]

In the New York Times yesterday, Maureen Dowd bemoaned how difficult it is to be a woman with opinions–or whatever she calls the half-cooked rhetorical omelette she dumps onto the Times op-ed platter every week:
In 1996, after six months on the job, I went to Howell Raines, the editorial page editor, to try to get [...]