Both my Father and older brother were Certified Public Accountants. Around the dinner table, the Internal Revenue Services was spoken of as the adversary. "Tax time" which used to mean a March 15 deadline was preceded by a period of long working hours. Over the years the tax laws became so arcane and dense they defy comprehension.

The income tax is probably the worst thing that ever happened to the United States in the last century because it was always punitive and regressive. It punishes saving.  It deters economic growth through investment. It takes the wage earner's money before he or she receives their paycheck.

What is it that the left and the Old Media said about the Tea Party movement? Didn't they say it was not really filled with regular folks and didn't they say it was not really a grass roots level effort because some nefarious "top-down" Republican groups were secretly behind the whole thing? That's what Paul Krugman said in The New York Times. So did Democrat Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi - after someone taught her was "astroturf" even was, that is. In fact, the whole left-wing Old Media establishment attacked the tea party movement as some fake, manufactured thing and claimed that it wasn't peopled by regular folks like you and me. All you need do is put "astroturf" and "tea party" in a search engine and you'll get thousands of hits revealing the left's unhinged response to the tea parties.

True to its fealty to left-wing, western pop psychology, the Associated Press thinks it knows one of the principle reasons why roving gangs of Muslims are hacking Christians to death and burning their villages to the ground in Nigeria: It's "poverty."

Liberals that struggle to understand why man is often so cruel to his fellows seem always to have assumed that poverty is a key factor in violence and crime, but rarely it is the factor that liberals assume it to be. Poverty is no picnic, but it is not the cause of crime and violence. It is more likely a symptom itself rather than a catalyst.

from the Ronald Reagan Foundation and Library

Radio talk show host and best-selling author Mark Levin delivered remarks at The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library on Friday, March 5, 2010. In front of a sold-out crowd, Mr. Levin provided a philosophical, historical, and practical framework for revitalizing the conservative vision and ensuring the preservation of American Society.

During an exclusive interview with the Reagan Foundation's executive director, Mr. Levin, in response to a being asked what formed his thinking process, said, "The first thing that formed my thinking wasn't from a book, but from going to Independence Hall and the Pennsylvania Assembly Room where they debated, wrote and ratified the Declaration of Independence, and several years later, the Constitution of the United States. They didn't do that to create a big government, they did it for liberty."