Archive for February, 2009

Europe’s Woes America’s Warning

Saturday, February 28th, 2009

by Nidra Poller
It is difficult to imagine how European nations could find the will and the ways to counter the subversive forces they have invited upon themselves and allowed to flourish for more than three decades. The current phase of global jihad, already underway in the much vaunted decolonization process, coalesced with the seizure [...]

CONGRESS FIDDLES WHILE AMERICA BURNS

Saturday, February 28th, 2009

By Michael Cutler
February 26, 2009
NewsWithViews.com
A disturbing news report appeared in today’s edition of the Washington Times on how our government may finally have no choice but to take action in response to the ever escalating violence that is taking place on a daily, if not hourly, basis in Mexico.
If you changed the name of the [...]

The Obama Presidency: The World’s Biggest Mania?

Sunday, February 22nd, 2009

The siren call of manias, financial and otherwise, is difficult to resist. I recall that at one point during the height of the dotcom boom in 1999, out of a total of nine former roommates during my years at Stanford and Harvard Law School, six had founded or were working for dotcoms. By all standards, [...]

Our Enemy, the President 

Saturday, February 21st, 2009

The greatest threat to the Republic comes from the Oval Office.
By Daniel McCarthy
After eight years of George W. Bush, conservatives find themselves back at the beginning—that is, back at the beginning of the modern American Right, circa 1933. Once more the country is in a deep financial crisis (we don’t call them “depressions” anymore) for [...]

What’s the Tory?

Saturday, February 21st, 2009

By Freddy Gray  The American Conservative
Now is the winter of Republican discontent. It is widely agreed that the party needs to reinvent itself. It is also apparent that nobody knows what that means. For all the exhausting conservative introspection since the Democratic sweep of Nov. 4, there has been scant inspiration.  
Yet one argument is [...]

THE PLUMBER’S BILL

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

The Stimulus Bill as taught to an economics student…
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Shortly after class, an economics student approaches his economics professor and says, "I don’t understand this stimulus bill. Can you explain it to me?"
The professor replied, "I don’t have any time to explain it at my office, but if you come [...]

Selling Off American Assets

Monday, February 16th, 2009

 Both Chinese and U.S. real-estate companies are increasingly organizing tour groups of Chinese citizens looking to buy depreciating American homes and businesses, according to USA Today.   
These trips are a growing trend: cash-rich Chinese citizens with little investment opportunities in their home countries are seeking bargain properties in the largest and most open market in [...]

Top Economists Predict Dismal Future

Monday, February 16th, 2009

By: Dustin Ensinger
Three of the nation’s leading economists spoke about the fragile nature of the U.S. economy at a meeting with Cambridge Energy Research Associates in Houston last week and offered some rather dire predictions, according to BusinessWire.com. 
Kenneth Rogoff, professor of economics and public policy at Harvard University, Nouriel Roubini, professor of economics and international [...]

Federal obligations exceed world GDP

Sunday, February 15th, 2009

As the Obama administration pushes through Congress its $800 billion deficit-spending economic stimulus plan, the American public is largely unaware that the true deficit of the federal government already is measured in trillions of dollars, and in fact its $65.5 trillion in total obligations exceeds the gross domestic product of the world.

Why Obama’s plan will prolong the recession

Sunday, February 15th, 2009

Why Obama’s plan will prolong the recession
The president with the highest IQ - an inexperienced fool, a backward thinking liberal or a partisan caring only for his own party

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Why Obama’s plan [...]