Mortgage Summit: No New Ideas
When Kevin Hall, writing for McClatchy Newspapers, said “the Obama administration got what it was looking for at its summit on the future of housing finance,” he was very close to...
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Only $5.6 Million to Create One $47,000/Year Job!
They're from the government and they're here to help us ... for a price — a very big price. ...
Dismantling America, Part 2
"We the people" are the central concern of the Constitution, as well as its opening words, since it is a Constitution for a self-governing nation. But "we the people" are treated...
Review of “Pursuing Liberty”
Authors Cory Emberson and Rick Lindstrom believe that Americans have taken their freedoms for granted. Because of this, they sought out “Americans by choice,” legal immigrants who came to the United...
Will Republicans Save Us?
Democrat control of the White House, House of Representatives and the Senate has produced an unprecedented level of political brazenness and contempt for the limitations placed on the federal government by...
“The Ecstasy of Empire” and the Agony of Tyranny
Infowars.com, the website founded by self-described “aggressive constitutionalist” Alex Jones, published an article by former Reagan Treasury Department official and co-author of Reaganomics, Paul Craig Roberts entitled “The Ecstasy of Empire.”...
Dismantling America
"We the people" are the familiar opening words of the Constitution of the United States — the framework for a self-governing people, free from the arbitrary edicts of rulers. It was the...
There’s Theory and There’s Reality
The great American statesmen J. Reuben Clark Jr. noted: “Tradition has it that Solon, the great law-giver declared in reply to the taunt ‘Are these the best laws you can devise?’...
Never Try
It’s one of the most penetrating statements ever uttered in the modern age, so insightful that in 2007 it was added to the Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations. What marvel of...
“Media Matters” wants Dr. Laura’s scalp
A web site called Media Matters, apparently dedicated to the proposition that all right-wing spokesmen should be silenced, is now targeting sponsors of Dr. Laura Schlesinger's call-in radio program over allegedly...
Eat Pray Love Fails to Entertain
Directed by Ryan Murphy, Eat Pray Love is a movie adaptation of the New York Times bestseller Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India, and Indonesia, ?written...
Monkeying Around With the Economy
Remember those stories about Nero playing the fiddle while Rome burned? Actually, if he was really playing, it was probably a lyre, a small harp-like stringed instrument. Fiddles weren’t around yet....
Getting Jobbed by the Government
Item: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said not long ago that unemployment insurance is “one of the biggest stimuluses [sic] to our economy.” Fox News.com reported on July 1: “Unemployment benefits...
The Expendables: Sly’s So-So Effort
The cast of The Expendables is a veritable pantheon of action stars — Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jason Statham, Micky Rourke, Jet Li, Terry Crews, Eric Roberts, Dolph Lundgren,...
Stossel Unhappy with Greenspan
When John Stossel of Fox Business Network wrote his recent “Memo to Alan Greenspan” column, he recounted many of Greenspan’s failings while Chairman of the Federal Reserve, including especially Greenspan’s relentless...