There are several points that the media is ignoring.
First, the Clinton administration loosened the rules for mortgage qualifications to make “the dream of home ownership” available to more people. Simultaneously left wing groups were assaulting lenders if the groups felt a lender wasn’t doing enough to funnel mortgage money to a particular constituency. Good intentions [...]
Arthur Laffer (of Laffer Curve fame) and Stephen Moore of the Wall Street Journal had an excellent piece recently on taxes and income. There were several key items that are worth highlighting.
*Between 1983 and 2005 “households in the lowest income quintile saw a roughly 25% increase in their living standards…This fact alone refutes the notion [...]
There was yet another ridiculous advocacy piece masquerading as journalism in the Philadelphia Inquirer. This one was on the affordable housing laws in NJ. The government of NJ has invented a “right” to affordable housing. You’d barely know from the article that anyone objected. In fact only one person was ever quoted objecting and it [...]
I had a lengthy political discussion recently with a stronly left leaning person. It remained generally civil so we both walked away content, which is certainly not guaranteed these days. One of the things that continues to stick in my craw was how he handled abortion. He said something along the lines of “I really [...]
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"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy. Its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery."
Winston Churchill
Rather than a lengthy piece on 9/11 and its significance, I have two simple things. First, is this moving post by a good friend who was in Manhattan that day and was supposed to attend a meeting in one of the towers later in the day.
Second, is this simple comment: I don't want Osama captured or put [...]
Bill Clinton was named chairman of the National Constitution Center. You can stop laughing now.
An interesting article in the Philadelphia Inquirer recently argued for a decentralized approach to national security and the war on terror. It drew a number of parallels with the natural world, discussing adaptation and semiautonomous organisms as problem solvers. It was interesting, if tangential at times.
I wonder, though, whether the authors or the editors at [...]
From Fox News. A 17 year old Pakistani girl who was forced to marry a 45-year old man at age 9 was murdered for seeking an anullment.
When the fuming elders of the Umrani tribe came to know about the intentions of these girls, they picked them up from their homes along with two of their [...]
From our friends at NRA’s Institute for Legislative Action: GunBanObama.com.
The middle class actually is shrinking but not for the reasons the Obamedia wants you to believe. Let’s look at the three standard income groups: the poor, the middle class and the wealthy. The number of poor people in the U.S. has shrunk. The number of middle class people has also decreased. The number of [...]