Christianity In America?
Listen to the MP3 As I point out in my forthcoming book, Preserving Democracy, one of the things that surprised Alexis de Tocqueville, when he came to what was then the new country of America, was religion. As he wrote in his classic, Democracy in America, “Upon my arrival in the United States, the religious […]
Read More..>>The Wager?
With the stimulus plan behind him, Obama is moving forward. All the claims of the pundits that Obama really was not a radical but just another centrist Democrat, have certainly been shown to be wrong. Between all the things hidden in stimulus plan such as demise of welfare reform, and the transfer medical decisions from […]
Read More..>>Contrasting Change
As the market continues it falls back to levels not seen since the late 1990s, an often overlooked fact is that markets are forward looking indicators. They are not so much an indicator of how bad things have been, or even how bad things are. Markets are an indicator of what traders as a […]
Read More..>>Dishonest – But it does not Matter
President Obama signed the stimulus bill today. The bill is essentially a huge lie passed with a number of already broken promises. It will not stimulate the economy. How could it? Most of the money will not be spent for years. But it will vastly expand the federal government, and as I explain in my […]
Read More..>>A Major Milestone?
The Stimulus bill passed and it is being called “a major milestone” for President Obama. But I do not see this as any significant effort. The simple fact was that a stimulus bill was going to pass as Republicans could not have stopped it. The best they could have done was influence it, but the […]
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