Front page Archive Why Arlen? Arlen is the TV home of "King of the Hill." It's a small conservative town that is threatened with ruination on a regular basis by twig boys, enviro wackos, diversity nuts, "PC" police and other ivory tower liberals. I like to think of Arlen as a metaphor for this here great nation of ours.

Tuesday, July 27, 2004 Posted 5:24 AM by Hank MEDIA BIAS: "L.A. TIMES" GETS OUTED The prestigious Columbia Journalism Review recently did a piece on the Los Angeles Times' placement of political articles within the newspaper. Read the article and learn how the editors made the decision on one day where to put articles on Iraq that are favorable to Bush (buried inside) and unfavorable (page one). It's clear from the dialogue that they don't even recognize the decision making process is driven by their liberal bias and antipathy to Bush. Wednesday, July 14, 2004 Posted 5:58 AM by Hank TAX CUTS WORKING...AGAIN Reuters has an article which helps to demonstrate that tax cuts don't cause deficits, they cure them. According to the article, the "U.S. government posted a larger-than-expected budget surplus in June, propped up by higher quarterly business tax receipts." The higher tax receipts were the result of the economic recovery. The economic recovery was spurred by the tax cuts. This is nothing new. Every time taxes are cut, whether by Bush, Reagan, Kennedy or any other president, it stimulates the economy and brings in more revenue to the treasury. Now, if we could just get our elected officials to cut spending, we could really cure the deficit. Tuesday, July 13, 2004 Posted 11:48 AM by Hank FILE THIS UNDER "DUH..." The New York Post reports that Big Apple politicians are aghast at the fact that "[t]city is sending as much as $11 billion a year more in taxes to Albany than it's getting back in state aid." However, what did they expect? Have these politicians forgotten that the whole purpose of a system of taxation is the redistribution of wealth? Since New York City has more money than upstate, it's the logical consequence of progessive taxation that more goes out than comes back. Furthermore, if the same amount of money were returned to New York City as was sent to the State, there would be no reason to send it to the State in the first place. If these politicians really want to end the exodus of cash from their constituents, the answer is simple: cut taxes. Home