Anyone who has tried to refinance their home or buy a house knows all about the hoops you need to jump through today for banks. It’s only going to get worse. Frank Keating, former governor of Oklahoma and HUD general counsel, is president and CEO of the American Bankers Association. He writes the following in […]
Archives for June 2013
The United States Does not Return Defectors to Russia and Never Has
Scott McConnell, writing in The American Conservative, explains this minor fact overlooked by the “ever belligerent” Lindsay Graham. On top of this comes Snowden affair. As I write, the young whistle-blower appears to be at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport. The Obama administration, in trying to present him to the world as the reincarnation of Julius Rosenberg, is […]
Doctor Reacts to John Kerry’s Rural Nantucket Rule
In his letter to the editor in today’s Wall Street Journal, Dr. Mitchel L. Galishoff, M.D. writes: Regarding Kimberley A. Strassel’s “John Kerry’s ObamaCare Boondoggle” (Potomac Watch, June 21): Our small, poor, rural town is struggling to keep our hospital from going under. The disproportionate share subsidies will expire soon. We had to raise a […]
VIDEO: Block Island Stripers
Supreme Court Gives back Sovereignty to States
The Supreme Court correctly ruled to give back Constitutional sovereignty, when it comes to voting rights, to the states. Some states and areas of other states identified as having a history of discrimination, will no longer be required to submit changes in election practices to the Justice Department for approval. They are: Alaska, Arizona, Texas, […]
How Can You Prevent the Obama Government From Spying on You? Part III
Encryption prevents snooping and Ixquick uses encryption (HTTPS) by default. Your searches are encrypted, so others can’t “tap” the Internet connection to snoop what you’re searching for. This combination of not storing data and using strong encryption for the connections is key in protecting your privacy. In that Ixquick is based in the Netherlands, U.S. […]
TSA Body Scanners Cause More Deaths than they Prevent
TSA’s nude body scanners probably cause more deaths than they prevent. Cato Institute scholar Jim Harper gives us the inside story here. Travelers wary of TSA mistreatment choose driving over flying for many short or medium-length journeys. Given the far greater danger of driving, this means more injuries and as many as 500 more Americans […]
The Oi(nk)s in Illinois
From Adam Andrzejewski the founder of Open The Books: 47 Village Managers out-earn every governor of the 50 States: See the Top 10 Village Manager Salaries in Illinois. The highest paid is a village manager of small Grayslake at $251,152. Review last year’s report, click here.
A Radical Extension of Federal Power
Obama announces a radical extension of federal power of more far reaching than the travesty of Obamacare. And he plans an end run around Congress with his new anti-constitutional plan of EPA horror. The Editors of National Review detail Obama’s radical climate agenda. [T]he president announced that, on behalf of “all of humankind,” he is […]
Turkey: Fears of a Return to Military Rule Appear Overdone
My friend Cato Institute’s Chris Preble just returned from Turkey and offers compelling insights for us. On the other hand, fears of a return to military rule—a Kemalist revival, as it were—seem overdone. A few look back fondly at that earlier period, albeit through rose-colored glasses, but most of the protesters and their supporters are looking […]
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