The Cut, Cap and Balance program proposed in the WSJ today is interesting, but it has a big problem.. There isn’t enough support from the American people, or the Republican party for that matter, for such a draconian move. Do you see the poll numbers on cutting individual programs? I mean, why do you think [...]
Alan Blinder, Ph.D. of Princeton, laid out the case for not cutting government spending right now due to it’s economic impact in today’s Wall Street Journal. In this article, he posits such half-truths and simplistic questions as the following: “The generic conservative view that government is “too big” in some abstract sense leads to a [...]
Wow, rarely have I read such a direct and damning assessment of our relationship with Pakitan. I’m not sure what to think of it. Here’s an excerpt, from Christopher Hitchens in July’s Vanity Fair. “Salman Rushdie’s upsettingly brilliant psycho-profile of Pakistan, in his 1983 novel, Shame, rightly laid emphasis on the crucial part played by [...]
Obama has just announced that he intends to renew his ‘outreach’ to the Muslim world. Perhaps this gooey sentiment will be as effective as Obama’s many failed efforts as a community organizer in Chicago, but I digress. My question is does Obama think his vaporous words can change the hearts and minds of Arabs and [...]
This is the moment when the right-wingers, the hard core Republicans who are mostly evangelical Christians, are ‘jumping the shark’. For those of you who don’t know, “jumping the shark” refers to the episode of an incredibly long running sitcom, Happy Days, in which a main character, “Fonzi” (also known as ‘the Fonz’) jumped over [...]
I happen to be a serious poker player, online and live. I don’t play all the time, but enough to know the online world and its place in the larger poker scene very well. This action by the Feds is stunning to those of us who play in a number of ways that should be [...]
I keep reading articles in the “liberty” blogosphere as to whether unions are relevant or not, or whether they “work” or one author even talks about once “liking” them and now not liking them. How absurd. Guess what, the utility of unions are rightfully be determined by the parties who use them – not right [...]
President’s don’t create jobs. Jobs are created as a consequence of wealth creation, so if the country begins to create more wealth, it will create more jobs. The question then becomes, how is wealth created? Go back to Econ 101 folks – but I bet most of you can’t even answer this most basic question [...]
It’s pretty clear by now that any examination of Jared Loughner’s motivations will reveal only a sordid mess of incoherent rage, impotence and pathology that culminated in Saturday’s horrific mass murder. And yet the drumbeat from the hard left was immediate, and concluded that this is the fault of Sarah Palin and/or the Tea Party, [...]
Where to begin with the “deal” announced by Obama last night? I suppose I could start with the punch line; 900 billion in new debt is the kind of compromise we can expect from the newly pragmatic Obama and the Tea Party congress. Now don’t get me wrong, I actually understand Obama’s reasoning for going [...]
