All of New England is ripe for an economic revival. Rhode Island should be leading the way. It could be the Hong Kong of the region. But politicians think they can solve the state’s problems with more government policies instead of getting government out of the way. Bloomberg Business Week reports on Rhode Island’s struggles: […]
Archives for June 2013
John Boehner’s Farm Folly
With guys like House Speaker John Boehner at the helm it’s all about big government. Thankfully GOP Rep. Marlin Stutzman stepped in. As Stephen Moore of The Wall Street Journal writes: There’s an old saying that nothing turns Republicans into socialists more than a farm bill. But on Thursday one of the major forces behind […]
Rand Paul: “I Can Recall no Utterance of Jesus in Favor of War or any Acts of Aggression.”
Rand Paul’s statements came as part of a speech outlined here by Daniel Larison in The American Conservative. A couple highlights: “I can recall no utterance of Jesus in favor of war or any acts of aggression.” “I simply can’t imagine Jesus at the head of any army of soldiers.”
VIDEO: Rick Perry Knows How to Create Jobs
A Dinner Guest At A Friend’s Mountain House
An unexpected guest for dinner.
Is It Israel or Iran That Poses A Nuclear Weapons Risk?
Scott McConnell, writing in The American Conservative, offers a most interesting commentary. I’m going become a pest and a bore about linking the Iranian nuclear issue to Israel’s nuclear arsenal. Obviously the two are connected, strategically, psychologically, and morally. But we have this weird Emperor’s New Clothes thing going in America. We are supposed to be […]
Niall Ferguson’s: The Great Degeneration
Economic historian Niall Ferguson writes in his new book The Great Degeneration that, “We are living through a profound crisis of the institutions that were the keys to our previous success—not only economic, but also political and cultural—as a civilization.”
Bernanke has Checked-Out
Yesterday Ben Bernanke compared slower bond purchases to a car easing up on the gas rather than applying the brakes.
Barack Obama against Lebron James
Cato Institute’s Michael Cannon explains the nerve of President Obama asking the NBA to help him sell Obamacare while raising the players’ taxes at the same time.
Working Against America
The issue of border security should not be packaged up with the issue of what to do about Mexicans here illegally. Such packaging has politics as the central issue and leads to an unsatisfactory outcome on two fronts. Can one American possibly believe that Chuck Schumer, John McCain, and Harry Reid have a border security plan that makes a sniff […]
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