From American Thinker September 11, 2008Palin and the Left’s Comprehension GapBy Dave Smithee Excerpts For reasons above my pay grade since it seems to be doing them no favors, the democrats and media cling to and propagate theses curiously garish
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For the last few weeks Intrade has been trading a position that Sarah Palin would be withdraw as the VP candidate for Obama. They listed very low odds of about 6%. The “Palin To Withdraw” position is no longer posted
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People most often vote their pocket books and the current risk posture of our economy with rising unemployment and declining earning gives an edge to Obama. Even if the economy is not as bad an much of the press states,
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Seven years today without another terrorist attack. Yet the president who delivered this result is vilified as one of our worst presidents. Fickle, aren’t we?
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from Victor Davis Hanson inThe National Review The Other 9/11 StoryWhat has and hasn’t happened in the seven years since September 11, 2001. excerpts: It would be cruel to relate by name all those prominent Americans — including politicians, think-tankers,
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On 9/4/08 Intrade odds favored Obama significantly with 59.5% odds for Obama and 41.5% odds for McCain. Today as of 7:51 PM they are about dead even with Obama at 49.4% and McCain at 49.3%. The spread has narrowed from
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The bailout of Fannie Mae by the government is probably a necessary but bitter pill. All of this reminds me of the bailout of the S&L industry under George H. Bush. Both of these problems were a long time in
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Why Taxes Matter: You are analyzing a business opportunity that requires a $100,000 investment. There is a 50% chance you will lose the investment, and there is a 50% chance you will double your investment. The potential return is :
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Perhaps the best explanation of why the Intrade betting spread does not completely confirm the McCain lead in the polls is because the betting people may be more focused on the electoral votes than the popular votes of the polls.
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From WSJ Political Diary 9/9/08 There are two explanations for the lower oil price. The dollar has been rising relative to other currencies and gold. The near 20% fall in gold from its $1,000 peak earlier this year has driven
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From National Review OnlinePolitics and the Fannie Mae Piggie Bank by Byron York excerpts: On May 23, 2006, as a jury in Houston deliberated the case against top Enron executives Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling, a little-known regulatory agency in
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from Israel Today Monday, September 01, 2008 Israel Today Staff Biden told Israel to accept nuclear Iran US Senator and vice presidential hopeful Joe Biden reportedly told Israeli officials three years ago that sooner or later they would have to
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Obama apparently admitted in shrouded and obfuscated language that raising taxes on the wealthy when the economy was possibly slipping into recession may not be wise. In a George Stephanopolis interview he hedged the wisdom of his previous tax policy.
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MSNBC has been taking heat for its obviously left wing bias and has removed Olberman and Matthews as news anchors. To be honest I did not even realize that they were the anchors of an actual news show. This shows
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McCain is ahead on the Zogby poll 49.7 to Obama 45.9. McCain is ahead on the Gallup Poll as of today; 48 to Obama 45. McCain and Obama are tied at Rasmussen 46 to 46. Yet Obama still has a
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In a few days the polls will tell us how much of a kick the Republican GOP convention gives McCain and Palin. I hav ebeen watching the odds on Intrade. Before McCain’s speech (Ok but not nearly as electric as
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from the Corner on National Review Online by Mark Steyn First, Governor Palin is not merely, as Jay describes her, “all-American”, but hyper-American. What other country in the developed world produces beauty queens who hunt caribou and serve up a
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“If you put $10,000 into the stocks of companies with the highest paid CEO’s of the previous year , from January 1991 to December of 2004, you would have ended up with only $8,079 while the same money invested into
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So Sarah Palin did not sell the state plane on E-bay. She listed it but ended up selling through a dealer. Did she say she “sold it on E-Bay” or did she say she “put it on E-Bay”? And then
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Much has been said about experience in the campaign. It is important but not as much as 1. governing principles and 2. character. I would oppose any candidate regardless of experience if they believed in subdueing individual rights, big government
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