Joe Lieberman in 2011: ‘The threat of a bioterrorism attack keeps me up at night’
The consequences of a biological terrorist attack are nearly unimaginable and the possibility of such an attack remains frighteningly high, agreed several current and former Congressional members during a panel discussion entitled, The Threat of Bioterrorism: Improving America’s Response Capabilities. Several participants said that a biological More...
Pastor Jentezen Franklin says Virginia Gov Ralph Northam infanticide remarks ‘Most Horrifying Statement I’ve Ever Heard from a Politician’
Pastor Jentezen Franklin issues the following statement responding to Governor Ralph Northam’s support for leaving an infant to die after birth: Jentezen Franklin “Like most Americans would be, I was absolutely More...
California: Gavin Newsom touts ‘single payer healthcare’ including illegal immigrants, Nick Searcy says he’s ‘buying votes’
California gubernatorial candidate Gavin Newsom repeated the promises he made earlier this month that he’d turn California into a single-payer healthcare state, telling the Pod Save America podcast that he More...
The First Groundhog Day: February 2, 1887 and the beginning of the Punxsutawney Phil traditions
On this day in 1887, Groundhog Day, featuring a rodent meteorologist, is celebrated for the first time at Gobbler’s Knob in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. The legend of Punxsutawney Phil is born. According to More...
The Healthcare Boondoggle
A Government that controls health care also decides who lives and who dies by outlawing choice and implementing rationing. Who wants an overpaid government bureaucrat sitting in front of a computer endowed with More...
Paranoia, Democrats, and the Speculators
Now that a Democrat is in the White House, I find it interesting that near-record gasoline prices somehow have nothing to do with Barack Obama. When gas prices four years ago went up under the Bush White House, More...
‘Avengers’ star Tom Hiddleston writes Superhero editorial for The Guardian about Loki, mythology
Tom Hiddleston starred in last summer’s “Thor” and returns in “The Avengers” to face and all-star cast of actors as Earth’s Mightiest Heroes. This weekend The Guardian published More...
Jobs, jobs and wealth creation
Mainstream economists like Paul Krugman have an administrative view of an economy, as though it can be managed centrally. All that matters in this viewpoint is the number of “jobs” that are created, More...
Do savings really cause depressions?
One of the constant themes in Keynesian (and Krugmanian) economics is the evil of savings, and how government must manipulate the currency and the banking system in order to discourage people from saving money. More...
Should capital gains tax rates reflect ordinary income tax rates? Maybe in Wonderland
[Update]: In his column today, Krugman continues the theme that capital gains taxes should be higher, although he does not say HOW high. His reference toward Ronald Reagan invokes another logical fallacy, as More...
