I took a little chip shot at the English rioters yesterday. Max Hastings takes out the wood today in The Mail Online. I can’t remember the last time I read such a scathing piece. It steams and spits about lost English youth. Hasting’s column may be talked about for years. It is a well-written, visceral rant. […]
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A Touch of Madness at 30,000 Feet
One small thing I still enjoy about flying is watching the reaction of children on their first airplane ride. No matter how many times I fly; no matter how long the delay or how arduous the security procedures, I am instantly enchanted with the process of flying when I can see it through the […]
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Forbes teamed up with the Gallup Poll recently to determine which states are in the worst financial shape. Forbes and Gallup measured each state’s “unfunded pension liabilities, changes in tax revenue, credit ratings, debt as a percentage of Gross State Product, debt per capita, growth expectations for employment and the state economy, net migrations and a “moocher […]
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Public employee unions in America met their Waterloo in Wisconsin last night. After spending millions of dollars and thousands of man hours trying to topple six Republican state senators and regain the Senate majority in the Madison statehouse, the union recall effort fell dramatically short. Republicans held four of six seats, and with them, a majority in […]
Read the rest of this entry »The London Rioter Deconstructed
Spontaneous looters in London and other English cities are quickly being lent shape and purpose by sympathetic psychologists, sociologists, and other analysts working to get their mugs on TV. It’s a mistake. The “experts” are providing striking insight into the socioeconomic factors behind rum-swilling 17-year-olds snatching 42″ inch plasma TVs from the windows of mom-and-pop […]
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I’ve written about this once before, but it bears repeating in the wake of President Obama’s widely panned remarks following the stock market crash yesterday. This President got overexposed within weeks of being elected. The phenomenon was first pointed out to me by a friend and former Reagan White press officer who was aghast […]
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Dana Milbank has an excoriating piece in The Washington Post today on President Obama’s serial lack of leadership. It’s worth a read. What I find most interested in how ingrained the lack-of-leadership narrative has become, especially among the White House press corps. It will only grow more intense. This could be a long 16 months for the […]
Read the rest of this entry »Falling Stock Prices Mean Higher Property Taxes
The tanking stock market spells bad news for millions of individual and institutional investors, but its effects will be felt by everyone if the market fails to rebound quickly. Nowhere will the losses be felt harder that in public pension funds, which are heavily invested in Wall Street. State pension funds, which are estimated to […]
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http://youtu.be/ARDfHfMxy8Q Texas Governor Rick Perry (R) has a great economic story to run on. I would expect to see his presidential campaign ads looking a whole like this one from his 2010 re-election campaign. It couldn’t be more on message in today’s economy.
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Politico is reporting that Texas Governor Rick Perry will all but announce his candidacy for President in South Carolina on Saturday. The fact that he’s planning to run isn’t exactly a secret, but lots of candidates get right to the edge of the pool and never jump in. This suggests he’s already in mid-air. The interesting thing to watch over the next […]
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