From Tuesday night’s Fox News All-Stars.

On President Obama’s speech in Milwaukee:

He stands up and he says we’re going to do a stimulus, a mini-stimulus, which has all these wonderful effects, the rail and airports and road projects, and then he says we will do the targeted tax cuts that will improve our economy, stimulate growth, improve employment. And then he says: And because it’s a political season, the Republicans oppose it for pure partisan advantage.

Well, there’s a raging contradiction in the middle of that. If these ideas are so self-evidently good and they’re going to help everybody and the economy, what possible advantage would anybody have, Republican or otherwise, in opposing it?

Now, it’s a ridiculous argument, but he makes it because he does not want to engage the opposition on the substance of his proposals.

What we have is a deep philosophical difference. Republicans like broad-based, across-the-board cuts in taxes, so you give the money to the entrepreneur who can dispense with it as he thinks his business needs.

Democrats love the targeted tax cut because it gives power in Washington of deciding where capital ends up. So, for example, there’s nothing inherently wrong with a rebate if you invest in office equipment and stuff like that. However, what if your business needs not that but more money spent on marketing?

The better idea is to keep the Bush cuts, allow the money to remain in the pocket of the entrepreneur, and have him decide much more efficiently on where the money ought to be spent instead of experts in Washington deciding how to direct it.

On the planned Koran-burning in Florida:

Well, there is not going to be a lot of argument about this. It’s obviously an execrable, revolting act, what they’re going to be doing, although it’s curious we don’t hear a chorus of people telling us what a glory it is to the American system that all of us will defend his right to do it, even though we might question the wisdom of doing it.

On FBI statistics showing that 65.7 percent of hate crimes motivated by religious bias are anti-Jewish, whereas 7.7 percent are anti-Islamic:

It’s fashionable to say [Islamophobia] is now the new anti-Semitism. Well, apparently the old anti-Semitism hasn’t really gone away.