Investing in markets, stock, real estate, and otherwise, is a gamble and with all such bets there are inevitably going to be winners and losers. At the NY Times, David Leonhardt writes that the Federal Reserve’s "great moderation" may have been a mere illusion fueled by stock and land rushes over the last 16 years….
Month: January 2008
Sit Down, Bill Clinton
What should Bill Clinton’s role in the election be? What does his country need from him? Here is the answer to these burning questions: When you told us you didn’t inhale, with that little twinkle in your eye, we believed you and loved you even more. … I know you want your wife to win….
Lawfare vs. Free Speech
There is a direct connection between the legal machinations some call "lawfare" that have ensnared high-profile Canadian writers Ezra Levant and Mark Steyn and the violence perpetrated around the world on a daily basis. That connection is, of course, the religion of Islam, which either has been co-opted into a vehicle for terrorism or has…
Self-Important Mudslingers
Fred Thompson, straggling behind the Republican pack as he has been in recent weeks, has not attracted as much negative attention from the liberal crowd as the other, more popular candidates. But while he’s still ing 4th place, Thompson is polling reasonably well in South Carolina with 16% of the vote. That’s enough to get…
Michigan Primary
Tonight Mitt Romney kept his presidential aspirations alive by, it’s projected, winning the Michigan Republican primary. WIth 22% of precincts reporting, Mr. Romney, who was shown to be in a very close race with John McCain, is leading with 40% of the vote, 10% more than Mr. McCain. Mike Huckabee trails with 15%. This will…
Words of Wisdom
I heard this song by Chris Rice a few minutes ago and, for obvious reasons, thought of the presidential race: Everybody take a breath why are all your faces red? We’re missin’ all the words you said you don’t have to yell. Draw your lines and choose your side ’cause many things are worth the…
Is the Times A-Changing?
The NY Times recently brought William Kristol onto its editorial pages and the uber-geniuses on the left fairly fell into heart palpitations at the news. The hatred that liberals so often express against anything conservative is as visceral as it is vicious and the Kristol case is consistent with that kind of caustic commentary. It’s…
Antarctic Glacier Melt
From the Washington Post: Climatic changes appear to be destabilizing vast ice sheets of western Antarctica that had previously seemed relatively protected from global warming, researchers reported yesterday, raising the prospect of faster sea-level rise than current estimates. … "Without doubt, Antarctica as a whole is now losing ice yearly, and each year it’s losing…
The MSM’s Staggering Stupidity
Read Eugene Volokh’s post and be stupified by Ms. Magazine’s cowardly decision not to run the ad he highlights.
Huckabee’s Fair Tax Endorsed
Economist Steven Landsburg has a new article in Slate magazine in which he gives his approval to Huckabee’s Fair Tax plan. His conclusion: the underlying issue becomes a lot clearer once you realize that a sales tax is a modified income tax. The right question is: Is the proposed modification a good one? The answer,…