Second Amendment Case on Horizon
Posted on February 26, 2010 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
USA Today has an excellent round-up of McDonald v. City of Chicago, the case callenging Chicago’s ban on handguns based on Second Amendment grounds. The justices will hear argument this coming Tuesday on McDonald, which will determine whether the Second Amendment’s right to keep and bear arms applies to states and municipalities. Currently, it doesn’t.
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Fiscal Responsibility Begins with Personal Choices
Posted on February 26, 2010 - Filed Under Uncategorized | 1 Comment
Democratic Rep. Ron Klein of Florida had the nerve yesterday to write in the South Florida Sun Sentinel the following:
In South Florida, we know that tough times mean tightening our belts. Times like these require cutting back. This applies to our family budgets, our businesses and our government. Unfortunately, some in Washington missed that memo. [...]
Get well quick Dick, we need you
Posted on February 24, 2010 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
There is perhaps no better proponent and advocate of the pro-Western, pro-free market approach to government than former Vice President Dick Cheney. USA Today reports he suffered his fifth heart attack recently. Unlike his former boss, Cheney has not sat on the sidelines while history is being written about their administration. No he has strongly [...]
Senator Brown Votes for Jobs Behemoth
Posted on February 23, 2010 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
Sen. Scott Brown is from Massachusetts after all.
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Dr. Kimball’s Rx for Financial Recovery
Posted on February 22, 2010 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
I, like Roger Kimball, place little faith in the new “bi-partisan” commission appointed by profligate President Obama to advise on tackling our out-of-control federal debt.
But, if by some remote chance this committee does get serious about reducing the public debt, Kimball has three ideas for it on how to get the ball rolling:
1. An immediate moratorium on federal hiring. Total. [...]
We Lost the War, Before We Won It
Posted on February 19, 2010 - Filed Under Uncategorized | 1 Comment
Omar Fadhil Al-Nidawi and Austin Bay in The Wall Street Journal explain why Barack Obama and Joe Biden did not win the War in Iraq.
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Posted on February 18, 2010 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
From Business Insider: The Scariest Jobs Chart Ever
by Henry Blodget | Feb. 5, 2010, 9:46 AM
This chart from Calculated Risk shows the decline in jobs as a percentage of the work force at the peak.
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A Tale of Two Cities
Posted on February 18, 2010 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
Merced, CA has an unemployment rate of 19%. Lincoln, NE has an unemployment rate of 4.9%. In these tough economic times, USA Today explains why.
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Some Good News
Posted on February 17, 2010 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
USA Today reports that Japan stands in the way of China being the world’s second largest economy last year. ”Japan’s GDP last year totaled $5.09 trillion compared with China’s $4.91 trillion and the USA’s $14.26 trillion.”
The Japanese economy was “buoyed by recovering exports and rising consumer spending.”
Some additional good news from Asia comes from Afghanistan. [...]
Intelligent Design Movement Over?
Posted on February 16, 2010 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
According to Stephen Barr of the University of Delaware, in First Things, the Intelligent Design movement has been a complete failure.
It is time to take stock: What has the intelligent design movement achieved? As science, nothing. The goal of science is to increase our understanding of the natural world, and there is not a single [...]
