“You dropped a hundred and fifty grand on a fuckin education you coulda got for a dollah fifty in late chahges at the public library.” From the movie Good Will Hunting. Among the lessons we are still learning from the
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Preaching that this is not class warfare generally precedes a volley in the self destructive attacks on the wealthy. It is like the shyster who precedes a dishonest act with “trust me.” There was some news of some of the
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Rich Lowry writes The Jobs Rule in The National Review Online 10/7/11. Excerpt: Pres. Barack Obama loves his “Buffett Rule” for taxes. He’d be better served by adopting the “Jobs Rule”: Government’s role is to provide the structure of order and
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Victor Davis Hanson writes Why Does the Good Life End, published in Pajamas Media 9/25/11. Excerpt: Redistribution of wealth rather than emphasis on its creation is surely a symptom of aging societies. Whether at Byzantium during the Nika Riots or
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Ever since the assassination of Bin Laden I have been pondering the war on terror. Some would say I was late to the game. I was glad to see Bin Laden killed, but I stilled questioned the method. We invaded
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I am hesitant to add to the many fine words sure to be written about Steve Jobs and his life but here are my immediate thoughts. Steve Jobs embodied the absolute best that is America. He created a new idea
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While our political conversation should be focused on the deficit and unemployment, or the size and role of the government in our lives, we have been distracted by rhetoric on fairness and the wealthy. We are mislead by extreme examples
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Rick Richman writes in Commentary, What Happened Before Nothing Happened?- 10/2/ 11 He responds to a common refrain that the Palestinians are frustrated from a lack of progress: (1) In 2000, the Palestinians were offered a state by Israel, and
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From Benjamin Netanyanu’s speech at the UN on 9/23/11 per the Weekly Standard. These people say to me constantly: Just make a sweeping offer, and everything will work out. You know, there’s only one problem with that theory. We’ve tried it
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Wisconsin Representative Paul Ryan writes a book review on Jeffrey Sachs’ The Price of Civilization in the Wall Street Journal , America’s Enduring Ideal, October 1, 2011. (The full article may only be available to subscribers which I strongly encourage.)
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More than few from the opposition have criticized corporations for sitting on too much cash. Companies are not in the cash holding or cash management business. Especially in today’s environment of near zero return on short term holdings, one should
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Some policy makers suggest there is a tradeoff between greater equality and greater economic efficiency. But government efforts to tax and transfer discourages productivity for both those that pay the taxes and receive the transfer. If work is taxed and
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Progress in Palestine
Rick Richman writes in Commentary, What Happened Before Nothing Happened?- 10/2/ 11 He responds to a common refrain that the Palestinians are frustrated from a lack of progress: (1) In 2000, the Palestinians were offered a state by Israel, and