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Kim Priestap

I love my family, America, the Constitution, the free market, classic literature, great coffee, handbags, tall boots, and cool gadgets.
I deeply admire Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, Milton Friedman, CS Lewis, and Thomas Sowell.

You can expect me to post about these topics as well as anything else I think is interesting.


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"Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victim may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated, but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." ~ CS Lewis

Posts tagged charity:

Phil Klein at the Washington Examiner begins his column this way: 

We now know that over the past two years, Mitt Romney has earned $42.6 million, mostly from investment income, paid $6.2 million in taxes and donated about $7 million to charity. By all accounts, he paid what he owed under the law. Though I have not had a chance to digest the more than 500 pages of documents the campaign has provided (which you can view here), my initial take is puzzlement that Romney didn’t simply do this long ago to get the issue out of the way, because he has absolutely nothing to apologize for.

Fox News, also weighing in on Romney’s tax returns, notes that Mitt and Ann gave 15% of their income to charity, whereas Barack and Michelle Obama gave 1% of their income, and asks, “Who’s greedy?” 

Excellent question.