The following is an excerpt from a sermon given by Rabbi Shalom Lewis in Atlanta: We must be diligent students of history and not sit in ash cloth at the waters of Babylon weeping. We cannot be hypnotized by eloquent-sounding
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The following is an excerpt from a sermon given by Rabbi Shalom Lewis in Atlanta: Now before some folks roll their eyes and glance at their watches let me state emphatically, unmistakably – I have no pathology of hate, nor
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Monetary debates were even the stuff of popular culture (at the turn of the 20th century). Indeed L. Frank Baum’s enduring The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, published in 1900, has been read as an elaborate allegory for the monetary politics
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Cutting the size of government is as essential to the body politic’s health as a weight-reduction program is to restoring any human body that excess has caused to degrade into obesity. Just as someone who is serious about his health
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From Boston University Professor Angelo Codevilla’s “America’s Ruling Class- And the Perils of Revolution” (July – August 2010 issue). In The American Spectator (online version). Laws and regulations nowadays are longer than ever because length is needed to specify how
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Occasionally I watch Bill Maher’s Real Time on HBO, but I find it worthless either as any insightful commentary which I think it poses to be or as any provider of any depth or understanding of any of the political
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The following is an excerpt from a sermon given by Rabbi Shalom Lewis in Atlanta: Moral confusion is a deadly weakness and it has reached epic proportions in the West; from the Oval Office to the UN, from the BBC
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The debate on the tax cuts and the rich have lost a sense of bearing. As one on the higher end of the income scale I do not care about paying higher taxes. What I care about is what I
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How would have the Republican establishment have reacted if the tea party candidates had remained in the race or become the sore losers like Charlie Crisp and Lisa Murkowski? That question led me to the idea of Rebublican Chemotherapy which
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More from Roy Fickling in response to a debate that centers on promoting economic growth verses a more fair and even distribution of wealth. For a bit about Roy’s experience see The Great Debate Part I You ask, “By the
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More from Roy Fickling in response to a debate that centers on promoting economic growth verses a more fair and even distribution of wealth. For a bit about Roy’s experience see The Great Debate Part I Let’s take socialism to
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This is a continuation of Roy Fickling’s response in a debate that centers on promoting economic growth verses a more fair and even distribution of wealth. For a bit about Roy’s experience see The Great Debate Part I The human
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Last May I posted Healthcare 1099s to show just one of many flaws in the Healthcare bill. Remember that Pelosi stated that “we had to pass this bill to see what was in it”. This rings as one of the
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Guest Blogger- Roy Fickling is a very intelligent and experienced young entrepreneur and investor. Among his company’s holdings are automobile distributorships, banks, and real estate- the biggest victims of the recent financial collapse. He is very well read and travelled
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In We’ll Always have Basel The Wall Street Journal reports on the work to raise capital standards to avert future bank meltdowns. One of the more interesting concepts is a “bail in”: The idea is to set very high capital
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The wise — as opposed to most of the highly educated — know, among many other things, that when you give people something for nothing, you produce ungrateful people; that when you obscure the differences between men and women, you
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Modern investment theory says that public securities markets- computerized, blazingly fast, effusively liquid- are as close as mankind has ever come to realizing the perfectly efficient market of classical economic theory. In such a perfect market, entrepreneurship is impossible. The
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Dan Gordis writes in The Jerusalem Post a different insight into the ground zero mosque. In The Ground Zero mosque – what US could learn from Israel Gordis writes that the issue of religious tolerance must not blind us to
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We faced a financial collapse that was brought about by a toxic blend of public sector and private sector policies designed by some of the most educated in our country. It is not surprising that a different candidate such as
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