Donald B. Hawthorne
More, following this. ADDENDUM Instapundit has more. ADDENDUM #2 More: Dear Leader.
In addition to the links found here, Russell Roberts of Cafe Hayek offers one of the clearest explanations of the current financial mess in How Government Stoked the Mania: Housing prices would never have risen so high without multiple Washington mistakes – Many believe that wild greed and market failure led us into this sorry…
For a guy who already has associations with unrepentant terrorists, America-hating preachers, and convicted felons, this latest information does not inspire trust or confidence in his judgment, now does it? (H/T to Instapundit.) ADDENDUM Joe raises a fair point in the Comments section about NewsMax and I posted this because the article’s author, Timmerman, has…
Confused by all the posturing by Republican and Democratic politicians regarding the current financial problems? Well, that is no surprise is it? Politicians typically know little-to-nothing about economics, rarely grasp how incentives drive human behavior, and usually don’t pay attention to the consequences, intended or otherwise, of their actions. To assist in peeling away the…
Andy McCarthy: In London last week, a frightful warning was sounded about encroaching tyranny. At an important conference, speaker after impassioned speaker warned of the peril to Western values posed by freedom-devouring sharia — the Islamic legal code. Like all tyrannies, sharia’s first target is speech: Suppress all examination of Muslim radicalism by threats of…
Gwen Ifill, moderator for this Thursday’s VP debate, is in the tank for Obama. From Instapundit: A READER AT A MAJOR NEWSROOM EMAILS: “Off the record, every suspicion you have about MSM being in the tank for O is true. We have a team of 4 people going thru dumpsters in Alaska and 4 in…
A Kinder, Gentler, Happier Cultural Revolution. At least as long as you don’t speak out against The One. ADDENDUM From Instapundit: Reader Raymone Eckhard writes that this is creepy. Yes. Roger Simon finds it disturbing, too. “It is the kind of exploitation of children that reminds me of Young Pioneer Camps I saw when visiting…
Setting aside for a moment how the MSM has made itself an all-but-formal part of the Obama presidential campaign team, there is another undiscussed angle to how Obama became his party’s nominee for President. Remember a decade ago how we were told Bill Clinton’s improper behavior with Monica Lewinsky was a “private” matter which had…
First, they bail out the financial institutions. Now, the automakers. More here. Next, the homebuilders are clammering for their time at the taxpayers’ trough. Surely the airlines and other industries can’t be far behind. Isn’t corporate welfare grand? All funded out of the hard-earned monies of ordinary citizens whose only “crime” was to pay their…
House Republican Whip Roy Blunt’s office provides this side-by-side comparison of Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson’s original Wall Street bailout proposal with the final compromise agreed to over the weekend by congressional and Treasury negotiators here. Much better. Thanks are due from the American taxpayers to the House Republicans. After the debacles of recent years, I…