Month: August 2007
From the Opinion Journal comes this very encouraging news: 79% of America's twelfth graders passed the National Assessment of Educational Progress' (NAEP) economics literacy test. Pop quiz. Which has …
Why has New York Governor Elliot Spitzer already set up a fundraising effort for his 2010 reelection effort when he's still in his first year as governor? The Washington …
The markets' free fall may have ended this afternoon as the Federal Reserve Board pumped another $38 billion into the banking system to avoid the feared liquidity crisis, matching …
Federal Spending & Revenue The annual increase in federal spending at present is below the prevailing inflation rate. So far this fiscal year the annual federal budget deficit is …
The Transportation Security Administration and Charlotte airport officials announced a man bypassed security and apparently was able to board a plane today, reports USA Today: The Transportation Security Administration …
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf is not very popular with anyone these days. Americans of both parties find his actions against Islamic extremists insufficient, the extremists want his head on …
Corn harvests are breaking all records, as is the acreage devoted to it - and yet there isn't enough to supply demand, and corn-based food products are rising dramatically …
When the first news came out about a possible incident at Haditha in Iraq, Rep. John Murtha couldn't wait to proclaim the Marines involved guilty of murder (before any …
I don't talk about The Day Job much. I try to keep it separate from my blogging, but every now and then something happens that forces me to cross …
This is big, big news. Al Gore's global warming cause is based upon NASA graphs that say 1998 was the hottest year of the millennium. It turns out that …
