Some Observations: I saw a Foxnews story that the sales of very high end luxury cars is booming. I have stated that high estate taxes encourages conspicuous consumption. If you are going to give a large portion of your accumulated wealth away,
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Gerald O’Driscoll, Jr. writes Debunking the Myths About Central Banks in he Wall Street Journal 2/38/13. Excerpts: The Bank of Canada was not founded until 1935. The Canadian banking system survived the Great Depression with no major bank failures. By
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My article/ post in The American Thinker, Creating Stronger Communities, 3/4/13. Excerpt: But the larger cost is not the extraction from existing businesses. We can measure businesses that are struggling and we can measure the businesses that have closed or
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Europe’s Hezbollah cowardice by Jeff Jacoby in The Boston Globe, 3/3/13 Excerpt: So what can explain the European reluctance to blacklist Hezbollah as a terrorist organization and shut down its fundraising and logistical operations? As in Churchill’s day, cowardice and
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From The Road to Oligarchy by Daniel Greenfield in Sultan Knish Excerpts: There is also very little social mobility. Human ingenuity can allow people to become wealthy under nearly any set of circumstances, but it’s a good deal harder to do it under an
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The January 2013 issue of Commentary asked 53 writers and conservative leaders What is the Future of Conservatism? This is part of the response from Matthew Continetti, addressing the appeal and the gaps in the Democrat’s Life of Julia: Julia’s relationship to government is tenuous. She
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Daniel Greenfield writes Terrorism Without End in Frontpagemag.com , 2/25/13: Excerpt: Terrorism can never be defeated by fighting terrorists. Combine massive wealth in some parts of the Middle East with staggering poverty in other parts and the supply of
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Michael Walsh writes The Ride’s Over in The National Review, 3/1/13: Excerpt: And there it is: the perfect distillation of the difference between the Republicans and the Democrats. For Romney, as for John McCain before him, running for president is just something
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Julia Must Be Stopped
The January 2013 issue of Commentary asked 53 writers and conservative leaders What is the Future of Conservatism? This is part of the response from Matthew Continetti, addressing the appeal and the gaps in the Democrat’s Life of Julia: Julia’s relationship to government is tenuous. She