James Touhey

Study: Are Liberals Smarter Than Conservatives?

Dec 10, 2010 at 6:34 PM

By James Touhey

I write tonight in complete disgust.

What I’m disgusted in is either a huge blunder or a blatant bias in reporting by Time Magazine. To be honest, I am not sure what worries me more -- that no one in 1500 comments and 5000 Facebook 'likes' caught on or that it can slip (or be guided) through the cracks of editing in such a trusted publication.

Take a look below to see if you can spot the egregious error or read below to let me explain:

The notion that liberals are smarter than conservatives is familiar to anyone who has spent time on a college campus. The College Democrats are said to be ugly, smug and intellectual; the College Republicans, pretty, belligerent and dumb. There's enough truth in both stereotypes that the vast majority of college students opt not to join either club.

Why YAL Members Are Extraordinarily Attractive

Aug 7, 2010 at 7:33 AM

By James Touhey

Passion

Have you ever stopped and noticed that people tend to gravitate towards you when you speak to them about freedom and its pursuit?

Of course, the principles of liberty are attractive. But what about when you talk to others about specific issues such as the Federal Reserve or specific legislation moving its way through Congress?

Doesn’t it surprise you that in today’s day and age of sound bites and blissful ignorance, people will truly and sincerely listen to you?

Well let me be frank, you aren’t coincidentally running into thoughtful and nice people. What is making the difference in the interaction isn’t just the ideas that you’re trying to portrait, it is actually YOU.

A trillion here, A billion there, and pretty soon we're talking about real money.

Aug 4, 2010 at 3:04 PM

By James Touhey

Good Afternoon Everyone!
My name is James Touhey and I have been part of YAL for over about a year and have been doing my part to spread the message of liberty in my community/campus. With that said, I have just come aboard as a part-time blogger to voice some of my opinions on some of the news info that I come accross on the internet. I hope that you enjoy them.

Title: A trillion here, A billion there, and pretty soon we're talking about real money.

Obama's Got Money

It is often said that in times of great adversity a house divided cannot stand, and in today’s partisan political atmosphere I think no sane or logical person would care to disagree with that statement. However, I am also willing to bet our 111th United States Congress would beg to differ. Because as with many of their solutions to problems, it is far too often the easiest course of action to just throw money at a problem, and hope it goes away.

Yet how can a House Of Representatives divided manage to keep itself from collapsing? How does going out and buying themselves some new stuff on the taxpayer dime sound? Pretty good, huh? At least our elected representatives sure think so. As the nonpartisan Sunlight Foundation -- a nonprofit that works to make government more transparent -- has found, they spent ONE BILLION dollars on themselves over the course of the last six months of 2009 and first three months of 2010.