Our Financials are a Mess
I spent some time reading about yesterday’s Bear Sterns meltdown. By the end of the day, JP Morgan Chase and the Federal Reserve were saving them from shuttering their doors, and the Dow was down by nearly 200 points. It really got me thinking about this market of ours.
The price of gold on [...]
An Ode to Eliot Spitzer
Client, Client Number 9,
Met his whores on the Amtrak line;
If the feds don’t cut him slack,
Should you give his money back?
And that, my friends, is riveting political commentary. You saw it here first!
All Your Gift Cards Are Belong To Us
A couple of days ago I wrote a rant about Maryland being the most liberal state in the union.� This morning I wake up to this:
“Establishing the Maryland Education Fund; providing that after a specified date, the balance remaining on a gift certificate shall be presumed abandoned; requiring a person that sells or issues a [...]
Maryland: The Most Liberal State in the Union
The whole country is abuzz over Elliot Spitzer’s plan to give drivers licenses to illegal aliens. But Maryland is ahead of the curve. Not content to merely offer government identification to the criminals who cross our border, Maryland now not only hands out drivers licenses like candy but has special office hours for [...]
Democrat Culture of Corruption
Soon after taking office as Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi started to pound the “Republican Culture of Corruption” buzz phrase into the ground. I’ve always wanted to start a series on the Democrat version but never took the time to actually do it. But Joe Biden’s comments this week need to be [...]
Required Reading
If you have a few minutes, you absolutely must read this essay by Michael Crichton. It’s an excerpt from one of his later books, State of Fear. You’ll see the name Margret Sanger pop up. In case you don’t remember, Margret Sanger was the founder of Planned Parenthood. Knowing that she [...]
Misundereducated
Since everyone else on the internet has had their say on John Kerry�s recent comments, I might as well have mine too. His exact comment was:
You know, education, if you make the most of it, if you study hard and you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, uh, you, you [...]
