in the June 21 Wall Street Journal Online- Alan Binder takes exception to the GOP claim that government deficits kills jobs in The GOP Myth of ‘Job Killing’ Spending. My retort is in The American Thinker on the same day
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Supply side economics remains controversial and poorly understood both by its critics who think it is just ‘trickle down’ economics: a thinly veiled rationalization to improve the lives of the wealthy at the expense of the poor, and by many
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Some Random thoughts: Home prices are falling. Is this a bad thing? Hasn’t the misguided federal housing policy sought to expand home ownership? Could they be more successful in their failure than they thought they were when they were ‘successful’?
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It was no surprise that pundits would try to score political points from the Arizona tragedy. Calls to curtail the legitimate language of dissent were broadcast before any information on the shooter surfaced. From Townhall.com Carol Platt Liebau writes Left-Wing
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I had about two dozen postings in American Thinker this past year. A few for those who may have missed them: The New Aristocracy Why Elitists Fail Finding John Galt The Price of Equality The Immorality of Class Warfare Many
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Global warming- I mean ‘climate change’- mongers are unfazed by record cold temperatures. They are astute at explaining how record cold temperatures do in fact prove man made global warming and carbon dioxide emissions actually support their warming hypothesis, but
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Randall Hoven writes in American Thinker, Class Warriors Got What They Wished For that the Class Warriors have created a great contradiction; they wish both for a more progressive tax system and for less income disparity or fewer wealthy. Yet
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Guest Blogger- Roy Fickling is a very intelligent and experienced young entrepreneur and investor. Among his company’s holdings are automobile distributorships, banks, and real estate- the biggest victims of the recent financial collapse. He is very well read and travelled
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from my article in American Thinker We need more than a change in parties 6/25/10 excerpt We need to do more than just reduce taxes on business. We need to create some comfort and consistency that they will remain low.
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The Reagan revolution drove assets from tangibles to the financial sector. Obama is reversing the direction. From my article in American Thinker on 7/6/10. In Praise of Financial Inequality excerpt Financial assets are an investment in the future; tangible assets
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Professor Angelo Codevilla‘s excellent piece in American Spectator, “America’s Ruling Class – And the Perils of Revolution” is the must read piece of political analysis in the last month. It is rich with insight that explains the crossroad we inhabit.
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America lives in fear of the Great Depression. Europe lives in fear of runaway inflation. That makes Obama’s Keynesian addiction to deficit spending a bitter pill for our G-20 partners to swallow. from my article in American Thinker Continents Apart
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I have been a fan of Fareed Zakaria,l read and enjoyed his Post American World, and I like the depth of his interviews on the TV show GPS. His recent article in Newsweek (“Obama’s CEO Problem”- 7/12/20101 print edition), however,
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My article in American Thinker. Distractions used to hide Obamacare’s failures Excerpt: But public outbursts fit much better into 20 second news bites than pertinent analysis or clarification of the substance of the bill that is causing such concern. It’s
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I am a fan of Fareed Zakaria and his CNN show “GPS”. Today (April 4, 2010) he had Tom Friedman (The World is Flat). While I disagree with much of Freidman, Zakaria allows different ideas to surface without the rudeness
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Some perspectives on the Hillary/ Biden/ Obama smackdown of Israel for building Jewish homes in Jerusalem: from The Jerusalem Post Obama has Crossed the Line– by Isi Leibner Excerpts: The administration “condemns” us for building homes, not in densely Arab
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The following was a reader’s comment to my article in American Thinker, “Why Elitists Fail“ Human beings can exist in one of only two modes: by controlling nature, or by controlling those who control nature. Those in the first category
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From “Why Elitists Fail” in American Thinker, January 30, 2010 Even the brightest minds cannot escape emotional impediments to a rational conclusion. Combining such emotional rationalism with a focus on theories detached from the verification of practical experience can be
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Richard Cohen writes in the Washington Post “From John Edwards, lessons on celebrity and politics” “- the lesson to be learned from the John Edwards affair. “We have substituted the camera — fame, celebrity — for both achievement and the
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My second article in American Thinker A Political Recession Excerpts: Growth is being restricted by political uncertainty more than economic policy. More business people who are either able or nearing retirement are “going Galt”, downsizing or reducing their income and
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