My friend, Ana Sami, wrote a piece for Al Arabiyah prior to the Iranian elections, discussing the role of the youth there. Given that university students have been both the focus of government attacks, and the main, on-the-street, Twitter-assisted organizers of the stree protests, I thought it was worth highlighting this paragraph:
A noteworthy implication [...]
That Heritage Foundation chart, with the CBO's preliminary scoring of the Senate's health care bill. (Hat Tip: Keith Hennessey)
A couple of things. First, we've been in a declining long-term interest rate environment for a long time. This is a huge plus for the economy is a number of ways, large and small. Second, that time is probably over. It doesn't necessarily mean we're headed for a period' [...]
I'm pretty sure I don't want the EPA making decisions about what medical equipment ought to be permitted.
This goes back a long way, but they moved pretty quickly once these lousy alternatives became available.
She has high praise for socialist Sweden's ban on paying for anything but non-CFC dry-powder [...]After forcibly nationalizing the banks in all but name, redistributing ownership of GM and Chrysler, and making noises about the necessity of absorbing GMAC, speculation was that the insurance companies are next.
And sure enough, today, the government announced that it was freeing up $22,000,000,000 for insurers who had applied [...]
In the Cowboy trick, an individual from the crowd is given a video camera; Penn says he's going to make a tiny plastic cow disappear from his hand, and he asks the audience member to film the vanish as the feed is projected onto a large screen for the rest [...]
At least according to the Denver Women's Republican Club. This Saturday, at the University of Denver's Sturm Hall, they're holding a free forum on the future of conservatism and the Republican party - the two aren't identical - with a free continental breakfast.
The program is the Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility, or TALF, in which investors are given low-cost loans from the Fed and in turn use the money to buy securities backed by consumer debt. The loans in this program are three-year loans and so far [...]
Israel's new government has adopted the position that it will not seriously engage the Palestinians until serious progress has been made on curbing the Mad Mullahs' nuclear ambitions. It's been pointed out that this makes a great deal of sense for Israel. The Palestinians are clearly a lower-order threat, lacking' [...]
Long Island has a "Cradle of Flight" museum, which I guess makes sense, since there were a lot of flight schools out there in the early 1900s. I guess that leaves Kitty [...]
1) Consumer sentiment is useless is predicting the single most important engine of economic growth
2) Since it's somewhat correlated with media coverage of the economy, attempts to jawbone up the economy are doomed to fail, or at least be irrelevant.
3) Consumer sentiment during non-recessionary periods of Republican and Democrat administrations over the last' [...]
"The tea" [...]
Kind of disappointing, actually. I went - as I always go - for the space science aspect, but found that the earth science displays were much more up-to-date and engaging. (They weren't all about global warming, but it was certainly a presence, and since one of the pay-for-displays was about' [...]
From the trip back from Castle Rock a few weeks ago, when it looked as though Spring had arrived.
[...]In an efficiency market, states or the federal government would require utilities to buy a certain amount of energy-efficiency certificates.
The certificates would be established when electricity use [...]
Guess which one gets a better review?
As the Colorado House of Representative took us further down the road to socialized health care earlier this week, Douglas County School are considering moving to a Health Savings Account plan for their employees. Needless to say, the Denver Post finds this objectionable:
Douglas [...]Apparently having failed to learn any lessons from the 1930s, Sen. Tapia and Rep. Pace have decided to sponsor HB 1328, which would:
Requires state agencies that purchase steel products to give a preference to such products produced in the United States if certain conditions are met....
Each governmental body shall [...]
The Administration made it clear at least a week ago: play ball with us, or else.
But President Barack Obama wasn't in a mood to hear them out. He stopped the conversation and offered a blunt reminder of the public's reaction to such explanations. "Be careful how you make those'" [...]I'm beginning to think that having put the State Capitol near the Mint was a mistake. I think the Democrats are beginning to think that they can just print their way out of whatever burdens they put on the state.
We found out last month that the Colorado Unemployment Insurance Fund' [...]
Last night Michael, Ben, and I spoke with Robert Hardaway of the DU Law School to talk about the Colorado legislature's misguided attempt to amend the Constitution without, you know, actually amending the Constitution. I've posted before (and Twittered relentlessly) about the attempt to join' [...]
Join us tonight on Blog Talk Radio as we talk about the latest economic intrusions and boondoggles. We'll also be talking aith Republican Secretary of State candidate Nancy Doty, currenty Arapahoe County Clerk & Recorder, about her upcoming race. And with University of Denver law professor Robert Hardaway about' [...]
