It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. ~Frederick Douglas
Archives for September 2010
A Policy for Growth
Commentary by Dick Young on The Only Policy Left: Growth by Daniel Henninger, The Wall Street Journal Daniel Henninger is absolutely right that strong economic growth could lead the U.S. out of the deficit/debt hole that it finds itself in today. Republicans should do everything they can to foster that growth, without raising spending levels. […]
Top 10 Disaster Currencies
In a world threatened by EMP attacks, dirty bombs, the threat of social unrest, hyperinflation, or even severe weather, it always pays to be prepared. In times of disaster, paper money can become worthless. Below I have outlined the top 10 Disaster Currencies, a group of valuable, portable, tradable money replacements you could use to […]
Americans Running from Obama-Marxist Dystopia
Commentary by Dick Young on Hoover + McGovern = Obama by Dick Morris & Eileen McGann, National Review The authors write here that “In a sense, America met its first conservative in 1981 and fell in love. We met our first liberal in 2009 and are running away screaming.” Americans are running away from the […]
Inflation and Gold
Commentary by Dick Young As Thomas Sowell says in Politics vs. Gold, gold cramps the style of politicians who want to inflate the currency to pay down their debts. Inflation is the same as stealing from taxpayers, and anyone else who holds dollars or dollar denominated assets. The steady generation of money from the Federal […]
Stop the Lame Duck Democrats
Commentary by Dick Young Obama administration appointments and deaths of senators have opened up numerous seats in the Senate that are waiting for full-time elected senators. The death of Robert Byrd in West Virginia, the appointments of Vice President Joe Biden, education secretary Arne Duncan, and the election from Illinois of Barack Obama himself have […]
High-Tech “SFW” Bomb Destroys Tank Column In Debut
By Senior Airman Ryan Hansen Air Armament Center Public Affairs As the smoke begins to clear on Operation Iraqi Freedom, the Department of Defense continues to collect data on how well the U.S. military, and its arsenal of weapons, performed during combat operations. One weapon the DoD does not have to research is the CBU-105, […]
Congress Already Took a Pledge
Commentary by E.J. Smith There isn’t any doubt the government is off course. But the GOP’s 22 page “A Pledge to America” comes off like something put together during a weekend corporate retreat. A lot of kumbaya collaboration away from the pressures of the real world. And like many a retreat the idealism quickly falls […]
Independents Are Mad as Hell
You know how you get a song stuck in your head and it drives you crazy? Well, lucky me, thanks to my daughter Izzy singing this morning while I was getting ready for work, I’ve had a song stuck in my head all day. She was happy about what she was wearing and excited about […]
Pledge to America
Commentary by Dick Young I urge you all to read the draft version of the GOP’s new Pledge to America, a redux of sorts of the Contract to America offered by the GOP in 1994. Some parts of the pledge are good, some are very good, and some things are missing from the document that […]
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