The Supreme Court made the right call today in the New Haven Firefighter’s affirmative action case, Ricci v. DeStefano. It is a relief to see at least one small thing go right on the political front. Scary though is that this was another 5-4 decision. Imagine the damage to American laws that could be done [...]

ObamaCare - This is a giant trillion dollar mess that should be opposed and I sure hope the bill fails to pass in Congress. The country has no idea how we are going to pay for the existing unfunded liabilities of Medicare and Social Security. (You mean there is no lock box as Al Gore [...]

Regarding my last post, I would like to know how the federal government plans to use the proposed Consumer Financial Protection Agency to accomplish this Whitehouse stated goal:
“A critical part of the CFPA’s mission should be to promote access to financial services, especially for households and communities that traditionally have had limited access. … Rigorous [...]

The Obama administration has big plans for overhauling the regulations of the banking industry. They want to create a Consumer Financial Protection Agency (CFPA). Surely, as a starting point, they will want to make sure that more bad home loans, to people that don’t really qualify for them, are not made on a large scale. [...]

Conservative activists want David Letterman fired because he made a sex-related joke about Sarah Palin’s daughter. Okay, let’s fire him. And while we are at it let’s also fire these guys:
“Saturday night, Sarah Palin is going to drop the first puck at the Philadelphia Flyers’ hockey game. Then Palin will spend the rest of the [...]

Glenn Reynolds is exactly right when he writes today:
TYLER COWEN ON MEDICARE SPENDING: “MEDICARE expenditures threaten to crush the federal budget, yet the Obama administration is proposing that we start by spending more now so we can spend less later. This runs the risk of becoming the new voodoo economics. If we can’t realize significant [...]

Many conservative activists are now trying to get David Letterman fired. Glenn Reynolds seems to like the idea since he keeps bringing up the Letterman flap. I am not sure why Reynolds has it out for Letterman.
Yes, Letterman and his staff should have checked which daughter was at the baseball game before creating the joke [...]

Tyler Cowen tells us:
Current administrators are using stimulus funds to buy off the old interest groups, under the view that these are temporary bad times. Relative to what will come, these are “good times,” and much of that surplus ought to be put in reserve funds. That is not happening.
And why are these [...]

I stumbled across Daily Kos while searching for articles about Newt Gingrich. Daily Kos is such a pointless website. Every time I read anything there, it comes off as stuff written by a not-too-bright outraged 15 year old. (I guess that is why they call them the Kos Kids.) At the same time, the posts [...]

I am a non-liberal. I think of myself as a libertarian-conservative. Lately, however, I feel rather alienated from mainstream conservatives. This is because when conservatives talk of President Barack Obama they relentlessly spout out every lame critical thought that pops in their heads. It doesn’t matter how illogical it is - just throw it out [...]