December 4, 2008
Nobel Prize winner and columnist for the New York TimesPaul Krugman has advocated a new major spending program in recent weeks that would closely resemble the New Deal of President Franklin. D. Roosevelt. Krugman argues that the New Deal created jobs, improved the country’s economy, and pulled...
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The latest polls of Republican and all voters indicate that the conservative Republican base favors candidates voters in general do not think too highly of. For instance, 24.4% Republican voters want Governor Sarah Palin to be the Republican candidate for president in 2012. Only 13.4% of all vote...
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Writing for Reason Magazine, Shikha Dalmia explains that the U.S. government should let the ‘big three’ automakers go broke since they will collapse in the long run regardless of what the government does. Not only will these automakers cease to exist in the middle to long run, they shoul...
go to article »December 3, 2008
Speaking Monday, U.S. president-elect Barack Obama said that India is a sovereign country and has, as a result, every right to protect itself. He said so in response to questions whether he would support India if it would use military force against terrorists in Pakistan. During the election campaig...
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President-Elect Barack Obama ran as a liberal on foreign policy and domestic issues during the Democratic primaries season. He had to, of course: he had to run to the left of Senator Hillary Clinton if he wanted to win his party’s nomination. If he would have run as a centrist at that point, h...
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Senator John Kyl wrote a column for Real Clear World about what he believes the U.S. could do about the threat posed by the Mullahs in Tehran. As the good senator points out, Iran has built tremendous nuclear facilities in recent years, which would enable it to produce a nuclear bomb as soon as earl...
go to article »November 28, 2008
I just finished watching United 93, the movie about the hijacking of United Airlines 93 back in 2001. As most readers will know, passengers of United 93 tried to take back the plane, after terrorists had hijacked it by killing the pilot, the co-pilot and had stabbed passengers (to death). They fough...
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In the run-up to the presidential elections a lot was said about now president-elect Barack Obama’s liberal voting record in the United States and Illinois Senate. As many, including myself, pointed out in recent months, Obama had the most liberal record in the U.S. Senate and his views on abo...
go to article »November 26, 2008
After reading Claudia’s post about the civil literacy test, I decided to take it as well, so I could see whether the test was extremely difficult. My score: You answered 28 out of 33 correctly — 84.85 % Although I am obviously better informed than the average person due to my studies, the di...
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Israeli leader Ehud Olmert will meet his American counterpart George W. Bush this week. The two men will talk about their years in power and will try to agree on some points for the future of U.S.-Israel relations. Most interesting about the meeting is, of course, that it will mark the end of a ...
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