Politics
Today’s Mortgage Interest Rates And The Health Of The Economy
Ask anyone you see how the economy is doing and there is a good chance he or she will tell you it’s terrible! At this point in time, it is a fair assessment the economic conditions have softened, but the truth is we are a long way away from a lousy eco [read more...]
Rush Limbaugh’s Operation Chaos: The Ninja Option?
By now you have to have been pulling a Castaway number to have not heard of Operation Chaos. For those aspiring Robinson Crusoe’s among you, Op. Chaos is a brilliant creation of Rush Limbaugh. What he has done is to give all those Conservatives who have [read more...]
The Post-War Influence On Calligraphy
From about the year 1930 calligraphy writing and lettering had made such progress that it had become a subject in the training of Art Teachers and was taught by the immediate followers of the two who had given their lives to its cause. Lettering of Today, firs [read more...]
India’s Water Quality Is Improving
The quality of water in developing countries has long been a hot topic of debate with many people questioning the poor hygiene standards people in these countries are subjected to. However, India has taken a step forward as they have had a revolution in their [read more...]
How Internal Corruption Prevents the Economic Development of Indigenous Peoples
Visualize being in the indigenous Third World.
Imagine an indigenous populist political candidate from a populist political party running for mayor. This candidate campaigns throughout the countryside blaming the current local political administrat [read more...]
Nine Proactives to End the War in Iraq and Affect Other Good Changes
Proactives are actions anyone can do to affect anything, including ending the war in Iraq. Electing Democrats did not end the war. Protesting, whining, complaining has not done it in five years and will not in another five years. Each individual citizen must p [read more...]
Treasury Reorganization: Recession Response or Red Herring?
On March 31st, the Treasury Department announced a new plan to help the troubled financial sector weather the sub-prime mortgage storm. This new system replaces some agencies while redrawing the jurisdictions of existing authorities like the Securities and Exc [read more...]
New York Times Fooled by Mexican Populist Demagogue
In 2006 Mexico averted what would have been a disaster for Mexico, the United States and Latin America. Felipe Calderon of the PAN party narrowly defeated Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador or AMLO of the PRD party in one of the closest and most amazing national el [read more...]
Investment Politics: Jobs, The Economy, and Social Security
Who wants to be a president; the President of the United States? Social Security reform is the winning ticket. Research supports the thesis that Social Security reform would provide all the lubrication necessary to get our economic ball bearings rolling in the [read more...]
Diamond Minds, Blue Skies - On the Train from New York to London, Don’t Look Down
It will take some brilliant thinking, a collection of diamond minds, to ever hope to bring us back to blue skies, nothing but blue skies, all day long. We enjoyed that in our happy days youth, before all the modern progress. Then, it seems, we matured away fro [read more...]
