Facebook Twitter Google+ EmailANALYSIS/OPINION: President Obama has made his “deal” with Iran. Most of the attention related to the deal has focused on the nuclear restrictions within the deal. That focus, however, ignores an important aspect of the deal for Iran. The Obama-Iran deal allows Iran to solidify its conventional …
Facebook Twitter Google+ EmailPope Francis has generated much talk about the morality of capitalism and he recently called for “legitimate redistribution” of wealth. Amidst our stagnant world economy, social inequality is debated and the profits of some are questioned. In plain terms, however, Catholicism owes a debt to capitalism and …
Facebook Twitter Google+ EmailANALYSIS/OPINION: The terrorists struck again, and some Americans, such as Howard Dean, once again refuse to believe them or their purpose. In foreign policy, as in life, it is often wiser to take at face value someone’s pronouncements as to who they are—especially when they make their …
Facebook Twitter Google+ EmailYou have heard it before: “As California goes, so goes the nation.” If that is the case, the national economy will be harmed for decades to come because of California’s misplaced priorities today. Indeed, by emphasizing high-speed rail over water and failing to deal with its debt …
Facebook Twitter Google+ EmailHere we go again. Asking the question: Should we raise tax rates or lower rates to close the deficit? The President and many a Democrat think raising tax rates is the way to go. They stand behind their belief that government funding can drive the economy and …
Facebook Twitter Google+ EmailOnce again, the World is witness to the revolutionary aspirations of a people long suppressed. Today it is Egypt. Yesterday it was Tunisia and decades before that Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and Iran. The Russians endured their own revolution in the early 1900’s and the French in the …
Facebook Twitter Google+ EmailI offer this common sense guide for the great battle to come. At the outset, it must be noted that, in practice, politicians don’t actually raise taxes so much as they pass laws to increase tax “rates,” i.e. income rates, sales tax rates, etc. They do in …
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