Monthly Archives: April 2009

Archive of posts published in the specified Month

Explaining Socialism

An economics professor at Texas Tech said he had never failed a single student before but had, once, failed an entire class. That class had insisted that socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would

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Who’s Your Daddy?

I posted in October, Crazy Coverge for Mental Health, about the new requirement for higher mental health coverage mandated in the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act. Apparently this requires equal treatment IF you offer mental health coverage. The result will be

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The Ideal Hockey Player Birth Day

Malcolm Gladwell’s “Outliers” seeks to explain the causes of extreme success beyond mere talent and merit. He notices that a largely disproportionate number of professional hockey players have birthdays in January, February, and March as opposed to disproportionately few with

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How the Fed Creates Crisis

From James Grant’s “Mr. Market Miscalculates- The Bubble Years and Beyond.”“Under Greenspan, the Fed has evolved into a kind of national financial fire department. It is not merely the lender of last resort but also the damage-control coordinator of first

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Political Alchemy

In the Middle Ages wizard chemists called alchemists were rumored to be able to make gold in test tubes from common substances. Outfitted in pointed hats and robes with celestial stars and crescents they conjured precious metals from junk. Used

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High Tech Systematic Risk

Silicon Valley is a systematic risk? Really? Read here in the Opinion Journal.

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How The Enemy Sees Us

Great observation from American Thinker. We would be foolish to think that only the Jews are at risk. A Lesson from our Friends the IsraelisBy Lauri B. Regan Read the entire piece here. excerpt: Our Israeli tour guide was asked

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Foxbats Over Dimona

Forty years after the Six Day War of 1967, declassified documents from the Russian and American archives, and interviews with retired veterans from the Soviet armed forces shed new light on the pivotal conflict. Russia was concerned about Israel development

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Should We Be Happy about the Financial Meltdown?

A critical position of the current administration is that the spread between the have and the have-nots has widened to a level that offends their sense of social justice. To level the playing field as they see necessary, they would

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The Fight is Beyond Borders

Rupert Murdock writes in the Jerusalem Post. Read the entire article here. An excerpt: Why, for example, do we hear no calls for human rights investigations into Hamas gunmen using Palestinian children as human shields? Why so few stories on

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The Economist on Obama’s First 100 Days

The Economist takes a second loook at Obama in ‘Learning the Hard Way’ excerpts- Despite his resounding electoral victory, his solid majorities in both chambers of Congress and the obvious goodwill of the bulk of the electorate, Mr Obama has

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Political Control Freaks

TARP is often FORCED onto banks and then used as a means of control. It is a disturbing act to say the least. In “Obama Wants to Control the Banks” by Stuart Varney in the Wall Street Journal Online describes

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In the Budget that Nobody Read

For those who do not share the joy of running a company, COBRA stands for Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (Passed in 1985) and it “gives workers and their families who lose their health benefits the right to choose to

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