Month: May 2011

For the past few months, everyone’s been talking about Buccan (boo-cahn), a new restaurant in Palm Beach. One visit and you will understand why. Its open, airy […]

Back when the 2008 Republican nominee was still unknown, I watched Ann Coulter gush over Newt Gingrich on “Hannity & Colmes.”According to Ann, Newt was intelligent, conservative […]

Enough already. The bleating of the negligibly small number of local parents who filed complaints of criminal fraud and cover-up charges against former superintendent Art Johnson., is […]

Today, JACK brings you music vids from my “Puberty Collection.” Not that the videos are sexy, because they are not. Puberty is as much about longing as […]

Remember the triumph of James O’Keefe? He was the young David who seemed to come out of nowhere to take down the Goliath, ACORN, back in 2009 […]

By George Noga

The Laffer Curve also Applies to Corporate Income Taxes

On March 28 I described the Laffer Curve for individual income tax rates. It showed tax revenue is maximized at a top rate of 35%, or about where the USA is today – excluding add-on state and local taxes. Raising tax rates above this level does not yield added tax revenue…

Take yourself back to your grade school years. Johnny and Billy are arguing on the playground. Johnny makes his point; Billy makes his counterpoint. Johnny then ivers […]

Yesterday, Zillow (the on real estate valuation company) announced that 28% of all homes in the United States are “underwater”; which means that they owe on […]

There’s a memorable scene in Marathon Man wherein Laurence Olivier, playing a retired Nazi dentist, repeatedly asks grad student Dustin Hoffman, “Is it safe?”Hoffman is totally clueless, […]

You’d think the mainstream media would practice what it preaches. But no. They’d rather do the spin dance and be intellectually dishonest about free speech. Media corporations […]