The highly publicized – first by the White House, now by the media – “Green Movement,” which subsidizes alternative energy while strangling hydrocarbon-based energy, is a near-perfect example of why government is the worst source for making generalized economic policy. First,...
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We all watch in horror the tragedy of the cruise ship aground off Giglio Island. “Inexcusable!” is the universal cry. “Those reefs are on my chart,” says veteran sailor and FOX News host Geraldo Rivera. Anyone else see President Obama as Captain Schettino, America as the Costa Concordia , and self-absorbed...
We’ve heard much about various politicians’ “Vision of America” – come next November, we’ll find out what the voters see. First, let’s dispense with the discussion about whether or not this election will be a referendum on President Obama. All presidential elections...
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...
We got to Cost of Government Freedom Day on Saturday, August 13. We worked 41 days to pay for the $1.5 trillion federal deficit; 62 days to pay for the $2.3 trillion federal non-deficit budget; 44 days to pay for the total of $1.6 trillion of state and local government spending; 49 days to pay for the...
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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Democrats liken President Obama to FDR, who, interestingly, had his legacy salvaged by Fleet Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto; while Republicans liken him to Mikhail Gorbachev, who struggled to sustain a doomed theory of governance. The Democrats’ dependency agenda – swelling their own ranks by swelling...
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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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There’s an axiom for trial lawyers – if the facts are working against you, pound the table and scream the law; if the law’s working against you, pound the table and scream the facts; if both are working against you, just pound the table and scream. That’s what I got out of Richard Stengal’s Time Magazine...
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