Notre Dame, South Bend, IN - In the coming New Year, 2012, both Groundhog Day and the State of the Union address will occur on the same day. This is an ironic juxtaposition of events. One involves a meaningless ritual in which we look to an insignificant creature of little intelligence for prognostication...
If the Republicans “drove the country into a ditch,” President Obama shot across the road into another one. It helps to understand the landscape. Going into the 2000 presidential election, according to the Pew Research Center, 35% of voters self-identified themselves as Democrats, 31% as Republicans...
Well, Ben Bernanke gave his Federal Reserve speech at the Jackson Hole [WY] symposium, and he didn’t mention another round of “quantitative easing” (read: printing money), so the Fed isn’t gong to help the president with his “secret plan” for restarting the economy...
If they’re not careful, the Republicans could sleep-walk into a repeat of the Sharron Angle fiasco. For those not afflicted with political junkyism – that is to say, those of you out there with real lives to lead – may have overlooked (or per chance forgotten) that Nevada Tea Partyers...
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Consumer confidence is at an all time low. More people believe that the country they give their children will be worse than the one they got from their parents than at any time since that question has been asked. Our “recovery” is European normality (flat GDP growth, 9+% unemployment). Our...
Some very wise advice to a young pilot went like this: “Whatever happens, don’t forget to fly the airplane.” Standard & Poor’s warning shot across the administration’s bow is telling the president to “fly the airplane.” All the talking heads (FOX included...
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On December 18 1999, NASA lifted the Terra (EOS AM-1) satellite into sun-synchronous orbit aboard an Atlas IIAS SLV from Vandenberg AFB [California]. Its five sensors began collecting data on February 24 2000 with the mission of monitoring Earth’s atmosphere in order to quantify climate change...
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If our elected “leaders” insist on playing World Series of Poker with our economy, then the Republicans ought to go all-in and see if the President has the hole cards to get out of the corner he’s painted himself into. President Obama is insisting on increasing revenues – apparently...
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Our last shuttle Lifted off from Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center at 1129 on Friday morning, beginning STS-135, a twelve-day mission to the International Space Station. After its recovery, we will voluntarily hand manned space operations to the Russians and Chinese. America is fundamentally changing...
It’s been Obama’s economy since January 21 2009, but he can’t pretend that his policies aren’t driving events any more. In the end, he has probably done future generations a favor by discrediting Keynesian theory in the hands of politicians, once and for all. President Obama threw...
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