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Saturday, October 31, 2009
Getting ready for the Islamic bomb
 Middle East piece by Offsite
(10/31/09)
The White House believes there is an Islamic bomb in your future. Associated Press reported Tuesday that the Obama administration is “quietly laying the groundwork for long-range strategy that could be used to contain a nuclear-equipped Iran and deter its leaders from using atomic weapons.“ Granted this could be routine contingency planning, but it’s believable that President Obama is pursuing an acquiescent policy given his foundering efforts to dissuade Iran from developing a nuclear capability.
Food Prices Will Soar
Food piece by Offsite
(10/31/09)
British financial journalist Ambrose Evans-Pritchard says that food will never be so cheap again, and biofuels are to blame.
Every Day is Groundhog Day in the Middle East
Middle East piece by Alan Caruba
(10/31/09)
In the movie, “Groundhog Day”, the main character wakes up day after day, trapped in the same events, desperately looking for a way out of that living nightmare. It’s a very good metaphor for the Middle East.
The VA - More Good Care and Bumbling Bureaucracy
Veterans piece by Thomas D. Segel
(10/31/09)
Harlingen, Texas, October 31, 2009: The ink had not even dried on our latest commentary about VA care and operations before another flood of email from across the country hit our computer. Veterans had a lot more to say.
Friday, October 30, 2009
Premiums to Skyrocket Under Obamacare
Health Care piece by Offsite
(10/30/09)
Skyrocketing insurance premiums will slam millions of consumers next year because of “indirect taxes” contained in both the House and Senate versions of healthcare reform, according to various medical and insurance industry experts.
From Hallow to Hollow, The Scariest of Figures
Economics piece by FreeCongressFoundation:
Marion Edwyn Harrison (10/30/09)
In Queen’s English All Hallows Eve, in American English Halloween, is almost upon us. Hallow is the older English word for soul. Thus, we have the Eve of All Hallows Day, Americanized and “modernized” into Halloween. The noun hallow is only one letter off the noun hollow, which can mean empty or devoid of substance. Are the stimulus spooks about to scare us upon this occasion? Will future generations be snared as “the hollow men[?]” Read on. The unprecedented spending of taxpayers’ money by the incumbent Administration and 111th Congress is sufficient to spook anybody.
Panel should not treat solar firms as utilities
Energy piece by GoldwaterInstitute:
Clint Bolick (10/30/09)
Many aspects of environmental and energy policy divide the authors of this column. But we join together to urge the Arizona Corporation Commission not to squelch an innovative approach to solar energy that benefits private and public entities alike.
Federal stimulus money makes state budget deficit worse
Government piece by GoldwaterInstitute:
Tom Patterson (10/30/09)
State Rep. Kyrsten Sinema recently rebuked U.S. Sen. Jon Kyl in the pages of the East Valley Tribune for recommending that “stimulus” funding be terminated. The federal government, by spending $308 million on infrastructure in Arizona, is providing a “much needed economic boost” to the state, she claimed.
Europe’s Disastrous Climate Policy - a Lesson for Congress
GreeenIsm piece by Press Release:
Richard Morrison (10/30/09)
Washington, D.C., October 29, 2009 - The Competitive Enterprise Institute today cheered the publication of a new report that could help save the United States from an expensive, damaging new system of global warming regulation. The report, published by the British think tank TaxPayers’ Alliance, details the failure of Europe’s “Emissions Trading Scheme,“ which was meant to reduce greenhouse gas emissions across the continent. Congress is now considering its own version of the EU’s scheme, known as a cap and trade system of emission control.
Halloween: The real end of summer
Society piece by John David Powell
(10/30/09)
Labor Day, by an act of Congress, is the official end of summer. Our kitchen calendar says summer ends September 21. But all of us kids know Halloween is the real end of summer.
‘In From the Cold - Finally?‘
Politics piece by FreeCongressFoundation:
E. Ralph Hostetter (10/30/09)
A major shift in American politics apparently has occurred, perhaps marking the greatest change from liberalism to conservatism since the administration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Some 16 Gallup polls conducted from January to September 2009 show 40 % of U.S. citizens now describe their political ideology as conservative, a shift from 2005 to 2008, when moderates weighed in as nearly even with conservatives. Today’s figures show conservatives at 40 %, moderates at 36 % and liberals at 20 %.
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Poll: 61% of voters in Arizona approve Arpaio’s job approach
Law piece by Offsite
(10/28/09)
Arizona voters like Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s approach to his job and disagree with the federal government’s immigration-related decisions with the sheriff, according to an Arizona State University and Channel 8 (KAET) poll released Tuesday night. The poll indicates a 61 percent job-approval rating for Arpaio, while 34 percent of voters disapproved, according to a telephone survey of 652 registered voters around the state.
This time it is not business as usual…
Elections piece by Guest:
Carolyn Hileman (10/28/09)
Just a note to those politicians still out there who even bother to wonder what the American people think. This election and every single one after will not be business as usual anymore…. Just because the republican or democrat party backs you as a candidate, it does not mean by a long shot that the people will. We have been watching and we don’t like what we have been seeing and we plan to fix that. You see, we happen to know that there are qualified people living among us who can and will do a better job of listening to the people and doing their will. As a matter of fact, right now being the chosen one from any party could be your downfall.
Constitutionality of health overhaul questioned
Health Care piece by Offsite
(10/28/09)
On top of all the other obstacles facing President Obama in his quest to pass health reform is this one: Does the U.S. Constitution allow the government to require uninsured Americans to buy medical insurance or impose a tax penalty if they refuse?
‘A Trans-Atlantic Track, Grasping Virginia to France?‘
Transportation piece by FreeCongressFoundation:
Marion Edwyn Harrison (10/28/09)
The Free Congress Foundation (“FCF”) Center for Public Transportation is active in myriad ways, to a limited extent reflected on the FCF website(1). A word of possibly quixotic comment might be interesting, maybe amusing, about the latest fate of an heretofore American and American-owned rail line.
Freaked Out Over SuperFreakonomics
Global Warming piece by Offsite
(10/28/09)
Suppose for a minute - which is about 59 seconds too long, but that’s for another column - that global warming poses an imminent threat to the survival of our species. Suppose, too, that the best solution involves a helium balloon, several miles of garden hose and a harmless stream of sulfur dioxide being pumped into the upper atmosphere, all at a cost of a single F-22 fighter jet.
Washington’s Suicide Mission
Economics piece by Offsite
(10/28/09)
Members of the Obama administration have taken turns deploring the billions of dollars in year-end bonuses the finance industry is getting ready to hand out. Never mentioned is what they think firms should do with the money. Give it back to their customers? Spend it on office decorations?
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
I And Many Others Don’t Feel So Lonely Anymore
Progressivism piece by Malcolm T. Hedges
(10/27/09)
Over time a lot of folks have opined the the Marxist Progressive Socialist movement is a “cult or religion”, seldom has a recognized observant columnist chimed in to support the position.
FACT CHECK: Profits for Health Insurance Companies Far From Fat
Health Care piece by Warner Todd Huston
(10/27/09)
The Associated Press posted an interesting piece(1) revealing that the health insurance industry is far from the image that Democrats and other leftists want to present. Insurance companies are so often presented as rapacious, fat-cats ripping off all their customers and growing fat on profits. But the AP finds that reality does not quite fit the left-wing image.
Government Intimidation Destroys a Free Society
Police State piece by Tom DeWeese
(10/27/09)
For years I have been issuing warnings about the growing government surveillance state. REAL ID and E-Verify have been sold as weapons necessary to stop illegal immigration and the threat of terrorism. Now, Congress says it has improved those weapons by creating the PASS Act.
How Healthcare Will Tax Middle Class, Poor
Taxes piece by Offsite
(10/27/09)
Despite President Obama’s promise to refrain from raising any taxes on families earning less than $250,000 a year, the healthcare bill being considered by the Senate does just that.
No more excuses for state of our schools
EdukShun piece by GoldwaterInstitute:
Matthew Ladner (10/27/09)
This summer, Goldwater Institute Senior Fellow Dan Lips and I published an article in the journal Education Next explaining why a student’s race, ethnicity or family income are not accurate predictors of their future academic success. We were very pleased when the Chancellor of New York City Schools, Joel Klein wrote a letter in response to the article.
Turkey: An Ally No More
Middle East piece by Daniel Pipes
(10/27/09)
“There is no doubt he is our friend,“ Turkey’s prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, says of Iran’s president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, even as he accuses Israel’s foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman of threatening to use nuclear weapons against Gaza. These outrageous assertions point to the profound change of orientation by Turkey’s government, for six decades the West’s closest Muslim ally, since Erdogan’s AK party came to power in 2002.
Ex-Treasury official: Dump dollar
Dollar piece by Offsite
(10/27/09)
A former assistant secretary of the Treasury for international affairs is warning dollar deficits might no longer be funded by foreign nations, including China.
Monday, October 26, 2009
Real Democrats And Real Republicans Can Win Big In 2010
Elections piece by Malcolm T. Hedges
(10/26/09)
Demercrats and Republicrats will have a tough road to hoe.
‘Are You Ready to Subsidize Reporters?‘
Newspapers piece by Offsite
(10/26/09)
Have you ever stumbled on an oxymoron so stunning that it takes your breath away? Try coupling this with a case of chutzpah so revealing that the lack of shame on the part of those involved serves as prima fasci evidence that their elite cultural isolation has rendered them incapable of critical thinking.
Why Does Obama Hate the Poor? Part Two
Demercrats piece by Warner Todd Huston
(10/26/09)
On August 13 I posted a piece wherein I facetiously asked “Why does Obama hate the poor?“(1) Then I pointed out that the cash for clunkers program was likely to cause the price of used cars to skyrocket in the near future. I also asserted that the reason this will be so is because Obama’s clunkers program was set to destroy hundreds of thousands of otherwise perfectly functional cars all of which would have ended up on the used car market were it not for Obama’s interventionism.
Amelia is Lost in the Clouds
Entertainment piece by Aaron Goldstein
(10/26/09)
Hilary Swank has no peer when it comes to portraying doomed women. It has resulted in her winning two Academy Awards for Best Actress – one for playing the late Brandon Teena in Boys Don’t Cry and one for playing female boxer Maggie Fitzgerald in Clint Eastwood’s Million Dollar Baby. No actress is better suited to play Amelia Earhart.
American Idea
The Republic piece by Offsite
(10/26/09)
Americans are harder workers, more philanthropic, individualistic, self-reliant, anti-government than people in most other countries. We’ve turned what was an 18th-century Third World nation into the freest and most prosperous nation in mankind’s entire history. Throughout our history, United States has been a magnet for immigrants around the world. What accounts for what some have called American exceptionalism?
Investment Portfolio Protection Strategy
Economics piece by Guest:
Steve Selengut (10/26/09)
A participant in the morning Working Capital Model (WCM) investment workshop observed: I’ve noticed that my account balances are returning to their (June 2007) levels. People are talking down the economy and the dollar. Is there any preemptive action I need to take?
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