The Daily Gouge

It’s Thursday, October 6th, 2011….but before we begin…. To borrow a phrase from Winston Churchill, never have so few sold so many so much of what they truly didn’t need. Now, here’s The Gouge! First up, Juan Williams typifies the MSM’s desperate attempt to make us believe…. Obama’s Class Warfare Strategy Working With Americans   […]

It’s Tuesday, October 4th, 2011….and here’s the Gouge! First up, the latest, as well as one of the greatest, from Stephen Hayward, courtesy of PowerlineBlog.com and Tom Bakke: This Week’s Applied Hayek: Socialism vs. “Socialism”   I’m back in Ohio today for my Monday class for the honors students at the Ashbrook Center, and though […]

It’s Monday, October 3rd, 2011….and before we begin, we say good-bye to bad rubbish: Retiring Andy Rooney Knew of Media’s Liberalism and Espoused It Himself   Sure, Andy had his funny moments; but by some accounts…. “Communism got in with a bad crowd when it was young and never had a fair chance,” Rooney wrote. […]

It’s Friday, September 30th, 2011….and here’s The Gouge! We lead off the last Gouge of September with the latest pearls of wisdom from Victor Davis Hanson on a subject near-and-dear to the hearts of Progressives around the globe: Postmodern Class Warfare   When President Obama’s polls hit 40 percent approval, he fumed at “billionaires and […]

It’s Thursday, September 29th, 2011….and here’s the Gouge! First up, we agree with the WSJ‘s Dan Henninger when he suggests it’s time we began…. Taking Cain Seriously Why isn’t a successful business résumé presidential material?   You hear the same thing said about Herman Cain all the time: Herman Cain has some really interesting ideas, […]

It’s Wednesday, September 28th, 2011….and here’s The Gouge! First up, a forward from Jeff Foutch in which White House Dossier‘s Keith Koffler reports…. Obama Fundraising Suffers Huge Drop-off   President Obama will raise substantially less in the second quarter of his campaign than the first, according to the New York Times. The paper writes that […]

It’s Tuesday, September 27th, 2011….but before we begin, here’s a quick history lesson….factual history….on the origins of our income tax from John Steele Gordon in the WSJ to complement Bill Whittle’s must-view Arab-Israeli video primer in link #2 on the home page: A Short History of the Income Tax One original sin was the separation […]

It’s Monday, September 26th, 2011….and here’s the Gouge! First up on the last Monday in September, it’s now been, by our count, 878 days since the Dimocratic-controlled United States Senate passed a budget….and here we go again! Senate Rejects House CR; Reid Puts Off Shut-Down Issue Until Monday   Were we to charge everyone wanting […]

It’s Saturday, September 24th, 2011….and here’s the Gouge! First up, peace personified! Abbas accuses Israel of ethnic cleansing Mahmoud Abbas delivers fiery anti-Israel speech at UN, accuses Jewish state of ethnically cleansing east Jerusalem; FM Lieberman walks out during address, blasts Palestinian leader’s ‘speech of incitement’ “They talk to us about the Jewish state, but […]

It’s Friday, September 23rd, 2011….but before we begin, some thoughts on the Thursday night debate from Conn Carroll in the Morning Examiner: If Rick Perry was pitcher who had been called up to the majors in August, his manager would be telling him to pack his bags for a return trip to the minors. His […]