Did you know that President Obama is responsible for the loss of more U.S. jobs than any other person? Did you know that Sen. John F. Kerry and his wife are three to four times as rich as Mitt and Ann Romney, according to the New York Times, yet paid a lower tax rate than the Romneys in 2003, the year before Mr. Kerry ran for president? Do you know how to lower your tax rate? Do you know how abysmally ignorant and hyprocritical Democrats are on tax regulations?  Read on.

I've known Peggy Noonan for 27 years (when she came on board the Reagan White House in 1985), and for my money this is the funniest thing she's ever written:

"It is good that Joe Biden is going to the Republican National Convention next week to hold high the flag of his party. People make fun of his gaffes, of his embarrassing verbal forays, but he's no fool and he knows how to take it to the other guy. The speech he is working on, to be given in the heart of downtown, just across from the convention site, will be stirring and stentorian: ‘All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Tampa, and, therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words, ‘Ich bin ein Tampon'."

We must rein in this rogue agency before it destroys our economy, two recent decisions by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia make clear. The Environmental Protection Agency exceeded its statutory authority when it issued rules that would shut down many coal-fired electric utilities and industrial plants, the appeals court ruled Tuesday (8/21). The EPA's rules are "without basis in the Clean Air Act or its implementing regulations," the court said.  "Absent a claim of constitutional authority (and there is none here), executive agencies may exercise only the authority conferred by statute, and agencies may not transgress statutory limits on that authority." The EPA is abusing its authority to advance a political agenda, not to protect the environment. It does far more harm than good.  It needs to be abolished.

President Barack Hussein Obama, campaigning in Ohio today (8/21), attacked the budget Rep. Paul Ryan proposed last year for cutting federal funds for grants and loans to students. He's a friend of education, but "putting a college education within reach for working families doesn't seem to be a priority" for either Mitt Romney or Paul Ryan, snarked Mr. Obama. Mr. Obama has indeed been a friend to those who run our colleges and universities.  But he's been no friend at all to young people who've been paying Cadillac prices for the educational equivalent of a Yugo. Our higher education system is being run by shysters supported by our Shyster-in-Chief -- and the con they are running on college students is criminal.

Two centuries ago, it was common practice for the doctors to bleed a patient in the belief that it would get rid of the "vapors" that were thought to be causing the illness. As a result, most patients got worse and many died. Much of the world is now suffering from equally incompetent politicos playing economic doctors. Most of the major democratic countries are headed for a fiscal cliff because they have been increasing government spending at a rate far higher than economic growth for the past several years. Politicians tend to like bigger government because it gives them more power -- so they have a natural inclination to try to increase taxes rather than cut spending. As poster children for bad economic policy and for bad tax proposals, I have selected three rich jurisdictions. Despite the vast difference in size of these political entities, the three are exhibiting the same disease -- undisciplined spending. Each of their leaders is prescribing the very same lethal medicine -- tax increases on the most productive and on their capital.

In the infamous Mediscare ad, someone who looks like Rep. Paul Ryan, R-WI, pushes an old woman in a wheelchair over a cliff.  It was, said PolitiFact, "the 2011 Lie of the Year." Expect to see that ad often now that Rep. Ryan is on the GOP ticket.  This pleases MSNBC anchor Chris Matthews, who said it's the ad he likes most in this campaign. The ad and Mr. Matthews' fondness for it epitomize the Democrats' strategy for re-electing President Barack Hussein Obama.  They assume senior citizens are greedy and stupid, that keeping their government benefits as is is more important to them than the welfare of their children and grandchildren. Democrats assume also seniors will just take their word for it that Republicans plan to cut their benefits. They'll make no effort to determine the facts.  It'll be disastrous for Democrats if they do, and here's why.