Here is a detailed but milder article on Pelosi as being a problem bringing change to the House. http://www.newsweek.com/id/186961 How this one plays out will...
Here is an interesting garage story out of China. http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/03/02/1816633.aspx This one is interesting for several reasons....
"The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. The systems that fail are those...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/27/co2-famine-exxon-paid-sci_n_170473. html He must be fully tenured or ready to retire.. Dr. William Happer, professor...
In a previous post I outlined ten things that would most help the economy - especially the middle class. All of these are things that cost the government...
"... Increased debt load then will ratchet the US Dollar down forcing interest rates up dramatically." Eric, That sounds like what happened during the Carter...
Fred, I know in the light of the failure of the conservative movement there is a scramble to find a scapegoat - someone who managed the government and economy...
Since the early 1970s energy costs have consumed an increasing percentage of the household budget making energy prices a regressive tax on the poor with the...
Eric, thanks for these excellent observations and links that you have been posting.  The story about the chinese farmer and his robots was an excellent...
There is a post back in the Archive that probably pin points the peak of religious fervor in the US. Since somewhere between 2002 and 2004 the shift away from...
Here is an excellent article from the Economist. http://www.economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm?story_id=13237193 There is little to add to this except the...
The last time around we went from this in 1956: Adoption as national motto A law was passed by the 84th United States Congress (P.L. 84-140) and approved by...
...as the 2008 Republican spin-and-lie-at-all-costs campaign would have you believe, has done it again - eschewed partisan party politics and special interest...
Mike, Great article on schools. As a parent dealing with one of the best public school systems in the country I am not sure what the answer is. For some ...
Eric, I don't know the answers either, but have come to believe this: "One size fits all" solutions to anything do not fit anyone very well. There is no way...
Mike, Listening to Napolitano interviewed on the Rachel Maddow Show talking about the role of DHS with the drug war in Mexico, there appears to be no change in...
One thing that is going on to improve education is recruiting the best and the brightest to become new teachers. One such program that is in place is "Teach...
Matt, Teach America is a great organization. One of the top people from there is heading up the DC schools with good results. I was disappointed to see Obama...
Here is a story well worth reading. http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2008/03/am-i-torturer Most is said in the article so little comment is necessary....
"For the first time ever, the majority of food stamp households in California have earned income. In 1991, just 19 percent of food stamp households had earned...
There are more than a few on this list who question my sanity for sticking to my original timing of the Juglar Cycle with a peak in 2001 and a bottom in 2007....
"There is only one way to kill capitalism - by taxes, taxes and more taxes." Karl Marx Every time I sit down to write about taxes I get bored and fall asleep. ...
Commentary: When is bad, bad enough? At what level has the Stock Market discounted the worst of the worst? Amid the doom and gloom this is a question that...
As readers probably know by now, I am a critic of the Global Warming for a number of very valid reasons. In fact, I have gone on record calling the Global...
I have not said much about Madoff since scams always come out at the end of every bull market. Here is a good article on the inner workings of the Madoff...
The purpose of the people coming together to form the extraordinary function of government is based on two important foundations - the development of common...
I have learned in life to watch people's actions and not their words. Too often words are a smoke screen to hide the real intent. In the case of the US...
Probably the most educationally devastating action ever taken by any governmental body - short of the Nazi Youth - was the Supreme Court ordered busing as a...
Chris Dodd, the chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, recently approved changes to finance law that set the highest annual finance rate at 36%. If the...
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