Monthly Archives: August 2009

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The Real Cost of Raising the Minimum Wage

July 13, 2009 The wages of guessing Randall Hoven From American Thinker read the accompanying article here

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Heebs of the Revolution

Our trip to Cuba was sponsored by the United Jewish Communities as an outreach to the Jewish community there. We visited three congregations in Havana and a small community in Santa Clara, about a four hour ride from Havana. There

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A Better Health Care Proposal

Newt Ginghrich  presents some interesting ideas to reform health care. 1.        Eliminate Medicare and Medicaid fraud.  It consumes over $70 billion a year. In New York state they estinate is consumes 10% of Medicaid spending. 2.       Focus research dollars on

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Understandable Vandalism

At the Kroger gas station there is the little machine attached to the pump that dispenses engine additives as an upsale to your gasoline purchase. As you go about your normal fueling the machine introduces itself with the annoying four

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Dispelling Health Care Myths

Clifford Asness, Ph.D. has written an excellent paper entitled Health Care Mythology. You can read it here. Excerpts- In the case of health care, the fact that we spend so much more on it now is largely a positive. The

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A Cuban Tragedy

A Cuban massacre we never heard about.. from American Thinker July 13, 2009 Anniversary of a Castroite Massacre By Humberto Fontova read whole story here excerpt: So what’s the alternative if you can’t flee Cuba? Well, in 1986 Cuba’s suicide

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Are We Progressive Enough Yet?

The percentage of taxes paid by the top 1% now exceeds the percentage paid by the bottom 95%. This increase in progressiveness happened under  George Bush. The top 1% are made of 1.4 million taxpayers and pay 40.4% of all

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A Dramatic Change in Ideology on Israel

Elliott Abrams writes in the Wall Street Journal “Why Israel is Nevous” Read the entire article here. Excerpt: But the Obama administration has managed to win the mistrust of most Israelis, not just conservative politicians. Despite his great popularity in

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