Champagne socialism.

Socialist French President Francois Hollande’s approval rating has been dropping precipitously since he was elected last spring, recently hitting a French 30-year low of 27 percent. He’s only been in office for eleven months, but the economy is stalling out, he’s bungling his anti-austerity pledges, and unemployment is above 10 percent: The Bank of France [...]

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Yeah, why not?

California already has one of the highest tax burdens and worst business tax climates in the country, but hey, why not think up a few more convoluted ways the state can take still more money out of the private sector and put it toward the government’s disposal instead? Because that is always the perfect recipe [...]

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Astucieux!

As one of his many supposedly social-justice oriented campaign pledges, French President Francois Hollande proposed a 75 percent income tax on people making more than a million euros, but he’s been struggling to make it happen ever since he entered office — but reports of a growing exodus of the wealthy, an inopportune business climate, [...]

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Sacre bleu!

He’s been in office for less than a year, but the honeymoon phase is already over and Socialist French President Francois Hollande’s approval rating is on the strugglebus. Miraculously, his redistributive financial methods of governance have not managed to revive France’s stagnating economy, despite his campaign pledge to halt the jobs crisis and fight against [...]

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No kidding.

Almost three years after the passage of ObamaCare, BuzzFeed’s Ben Smith reports that ObamaCare is actually a wealth-redistribution system in the most regressive manner possible.  Young workers, who find it increasingly more difficult to find jobs, will end up subsidizing the health care of older workers, who are hanging onto jobs longer and longer.  The [...]

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Membership up 250K in a month?

The NRA seems to have adopted a new strategy in their efforts to push back gun control: If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em.  Oh, they’re not falling in line with gun bans and magazine limits — they’re just adopting Barack Obama’s playbook in arguing against them.  Via Buzzfeed, here’s a new 30-second ad painting [...]

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Follow the money.

When conservatives insist that spending cuts — actual spending cuts, and not reductions in the rate of federal expansion — the common rebuttal is that reductions in federal outlays would touch off a massive recession.  But would that actually be true?  Nick Gillespie and Veronique de Rugy look at the experience of Canada in the [...]

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Meh.

Let’s put aside for a moment President Obama and the Democrats’ class-warmongering rhetoric about wanting “millionaires and billionaires” to pay their fair share (I’m pretty sure that dubbing families that make over $250k/year “millionaires” is an over-generalization, but yeah, sure), and forget that the projected revenue from hiking taxes on the wealthy is a laughably [...]

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Layers of fact-checking.

Via the Washington Free Beacon, two flavors of stupid. Flavor one: Chuck Todd, the guy she’s talking to here, actually did air the redistribution audio this morning — grudgingly, with disdain for Drudge for posting it, natch. Flavor two: As far as I know, no one, including the White House, has disputed that the voice [...]

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Surprise!

It doesn’t take long these days for quotable quotes to end up as campaign ads, at least on the Internet.  The RNC put together this web ad overnight that exploits the discovery of Barack Obama’s 1998 embrace of redistributionism, effectively pairing it with a December 2011 60 Minutes interview where Obama denied that his policies [...]

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"Inelegant"?

Mitt Romney appeared on Cavuto this afternoon to personally respond to today’s fallout over whether his remarks about 47 percent of the electorate at a private fundraiser awhile back were right on the money or hopelessly callous. Although he already admitted that his remarks probably weren’t very “elegant” in a statement last night, he didn’t [...]

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Sharing.

Can’t hurt to remind low-information voters of this by having Drudge give it the red-font treatment, but … you guys already knew this, yes? The whole point of the Buffett Rule is that O wants a showy yet meaningless peg on which to hang his “the rich aren’t paying their fair share” argument. It would [...]

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Of course they do.

At least United Nations officials are transparent about their goals to redistribute wealth on a global scale. According to several U.N. leaders, health care, education, housing, water and sanitation, among other services, are basic human rights, equivalent to the rights to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” To ensure these rights, these U.N. higher-ups [...]

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Terrific.

9 p.m. ET all across the dial. I promise you this: No matter how bad you think this will be, it’ll be even worse. Don’t believe me? Go read Matt Welch’s Frankenstein State of the Union, stitched together from the remains of more than five decades of SOTU addresses. Ninety percent of these speeches is [...]

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What happened in one Fox News commercial break.

In case you missed this yesterday, it’s worth revisiting. In it, lefties (including the Super Rich Russell Simmons) parrot Elizabeth Warren: “There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own — nobody.” But Charles Payne hits back with what essentially amounts to this: I did. “I took it! I took it!” he [...]

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