Sarah Palin has resigned. I feel sorry for how much this women and her family have had to endure. Best of luck to them.
She can give a good speech, and she is a tough woman. Politically, I was dazzled by the first speech that Palin gave at the RNC. Could this be the next Reagan [...]

In case you have any doubt that Obama is going to win this election, look at this summary of eleven national polls. It is going to be a landslide for Obama.
Once Obama wins, he will take his landslide to mean that he has a big mandate to do the things he wants to do. But [...]

I am back home in the great state of Texas in the USA. I thought I would investigate a bit regarding my last post about Denmark and taxes. Yes, taxes really are outrageous and as a result many young Danes are leaving Denmark:
The problem, employers and economists believe, has a lot to do with the [...]

I wrote recently that US subsidies, to divert the use of corn to ethanol production, are helping drive up world food prices. Joining what mainstream food experts have been saying, I wrote , “With the new worldwide spike in food prices partly blamed on US ethanol subsidies, it is just a bad idea to be [...]

This surprises me:
Conservative blue-collar “Reagan Democrats” left the party in the 1980s for Republican President Ronald Reagan and many never came back. In 2000, Democrat Al Gore lost working-class whites by 17 points, and in 2004 John Kerry lost them by 23 points.
But wait, the Democratic party is supposed to be the [...]

Primary care doctors who accept Medicare and Medicaid patients are often doing charity work. If the federal government is going to fund an insurance program for the retired and the poor, then they should reimburse doctors at the going rate. Otherwise doctors are in the difficult position of having to make a choice between turning [...]

Non-profits perform important functions in America. The category non-profit brings to mind noble intentions, unlike those, you know, big evil corporations who only care about profits. But it ends up that many non-profits are actually raking in the profits. So if non-profits are quietly making profits, and stuffing away cash and buying stocks and bonds [...]

Since Romney won Michigan tonight, and I criticized him in a post yesterday, I will add some balance here. Regarding limited government, The Club for Growth writes:
As Massachusetts Governor, Mitt Romney’s record on economic issues was generally good. He demonstrated a willingness to take on his Legislature and deserves credit for the many pro-growth measures [...]

The Club for Growth is a group supporting free market economic policies and limited government. They have reviews of each presidential candidate regarding their records on economic matters. Not all Republicans look that good. For example, here is the conclusion reached regarding Iowa winner Mike Huckabee:
Governor Huckabee’s record on pro-growth, free-market policies is a mixed [...]

In presidential elections, I vote for the Republican. It’s a no-brainer. Democrats are for more government and more social control (except for woman aborting fetuses and gays getting married). Hard core liberals, as a group, are very intolerant. Just go to any of the big lefty blogs and read the comments. Or just read Atrios [...]

Ah, socialism. When the left has steadily used government to create leftist institutions that spin out of control, you get … well, France.
A goal of the left is to create artificial new power centers in society that are supported by government - and vice versa. This way leftism goes on forever. For example, once laws [...]