http://howardwasright.com/ en editor@howardwasright.com Copyright 2008 2008-10-06T00:45:00-05:00 http://howardwasright.com/index.php/more/3916 http://howardwasright.com/index.php/more/3916#When:17:59:57 This idea has been around since 1941 (a big pause because of the WWII problem).  The mush-minds in Sacramento and Salem consider these areas as full of hicks for tax revenues. Malcolm Hedges Progressivism 2008-10-05T17:59:57 http://howardwasright.com/index.php/more/3915 http://howardwasright.com/index.php/more/3915#When:10:02:30 Quite simply, the current credit crisis was caused by Democratic interference with the free market. In fact, Democrats hate the free market out of an interest in buying votes from those who don’t profit as much or as easily as they’d like to from it. Accordingly, The Federal Reserve, Fanny Mae, Freddie Mac, The Community Reinvestment Act, and FHA, among many others, all exist to interfere in a huge way with the free market in order to make home buying easier for those whom the free market deems unqualified because of their actuarial inability to pay back their home loans. Ted Baiamonte Economics 2008-10-05T10:02:30 http://howardwasright.com/index.php/more/3914 http://howardwasright.com/index.php/more/3914#When:08:52:37 The issue of the nation’s financial and economic security is likely to dominate the November 4 election. Earlier in the campaign cycle we might have assumed that foreign affairs and energy would be uppermost on the minds of voters, but we’re told that, ultimately, voters vote their pocketbooks. Alan Caruba GreeenIsm 2008-10-05T08:52:37 http://howardwasright.com/index.php/more/3913 http://howardwasright.com/index.php/more/3913#When:08:49:55 My favorite translation of the Bible is the Revised Standard… and second, the American Standard.. J. D. Longstreet Religion 2008-10-05T08:49:55 http://howardwasright.com/index.php/more/3912 http://howardwasright.com/index.php/more/3912#When:08:42:32 ...American health care is also much more confusing, impersonal, and expensive than it needs to be. Conflicting opinions from doctors and insurers often strand patients with complex diseases in a medical maze. Many primary-care physicians, frustrated with red tape and puny reimbursements, limit the number of Medicare and Medicaid patients whom they see, or they drop out of the profession altogether. Adding insult to injury, employers and employees face seemingly endless cost increases, with health-insurance premiums rising much faster than inflation or income. Offsite Society 2008-10-05T08:42:32 http://howardwasright.com/index.php/more/3911 http://howardwasright.com/index.php/more/3911#When:14:11:36 Unfortunately, the future of this country, as well as the fate of the Western world, depends on how many people can be fooled on Election Day, just a few weeks from now. Offsite Election 2008 2008-10-04T14:11:36 http://howardwasright.com/index.php/more/3910 http://howardwasright.com/index.php/more/3910#When:06:25:06 New York - Say what you will about Geert Wilders – and his critics, not least the Islamic clerics who issue near-daily fatwas commanding his death, have made their views plain – there is no gainsaying that the man has guts. Ever since 2004, when the Dutch politician emerged as one of Europe’s more forthright foes of Islamic fundamentalism, Wilders, 45, has been the subject of considerable obloquy, both in his native Netherlands, where he is scorned by the political elite, and abroad, where he is the target of untold assassination plots.  Offsite Islam 2008-10-02T06:25:06 http://howardwasright.com/index.php/more/3909 http://howardwasright.com/index.php/more/3909#When:05:15:35 More than half of the whopping $426.9 million Barack Obama has raised has come from small donors whose names the Obama campaign won’t disclose. Offsite Politics 2008-10-01T05:15:35 http://howardwasright.com/index.php/more/3908 http://howardwasright.com/index.php/more/3908#When:13:55:38 The New York Sun, a newspaper launched six years ago billing itself as an alternative to The New York Times, published its last edition on Tuesday. Offsite MSM 2008-09-30T13:55:38 http://howardwasright.com/index.php/more/3907 http://howardwasright.com/index.php/more/3907#When:13:46:40 Washington — On Wednesday night, President Bush addressed the nation in an effort to convince Congress to pass a bill to “reduce the risk to major financial institutions” and “safeguard American families and businesses.” On Thursday he met with Senators John McCain and Barack Obama and other congressional leaders to build a consensus plan for bailing out our financial system. The potentates on the Potomac are now pondering the price-tag for saving Wall Street. Unfortunately, corrupt officials in other capitals are also hard at work undermining what’s left of the U.S. dollar – by printing and distributing their own versions of American currency. Offsite Economics 2008-09-30T13:46:40