How Best to Stimulate the Economy?
by Eliot Spitzer is writing for Slate after his fall from grace a few months ago. Spitzer says that the Obama government’s stimulus plan should focus …
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Sustainable Energy and You
Rick Strahl just wrote an excellent and timely post – now that oil prices are “back to normal” – about energy, alternatives to oil, peak …
A More Correct Definition of Tolerance
The International Herald Tribune reports that the Netherlands’ Labor Party is moving toward a more realistic definition of what it means to accommodate Muslim immigrants, …
Kurdish Girls Suffer Sexual Abuse, Mutilation
The Washington Post reports that more than 60% of Kurdish women in the northern part of Iraq have had their clitoris “circumcised” as part of …
Making an End to Political Succession
Voters in New York should take the number one lesson from the Bush years to heart and refuse to vote Caroline Kennedy into the U.S. …
Christianity / Islam / Israel
Tolerance at Christmas in Israel
Merry Christmas! If you believe in that nonsense, that is. CNSNews has this from Nazareth: As Nazareth’s Christians prepare to celebrate Christmas, they are playing …
Military Spending as an Economic Stimuli
Martin Feldstein says that the planned budget cuts at the Department of Defense shouldn’t happen. At first read the idea seems ludicrous. The U.S. already …
Warren Derangement Syndrome, Take 2
Many on the far left are beside themselves because Barack Obama selected well-known pastor Rick Warren to give his inaugural invocation. But they’re not the …
Casualties of the American Drug War
America’s War on Drugs is a known failure and it’s south-of-the-border derivative is literally the cause of blood – and decapitated heads – in the …
Competition No Longer an American Ideal?
Michael Lind says that southern states have waged an economic civil war on the rest of America, the real America, in Lind’s mind, by creating …