Here is an excert from the Financial Times by a reporter in China. China eases taxes for foreign companies By Paul J Davies in Hong Kong China will cut taxes on the profits that foreign companies take out of the country by up to 50 per cent after rules on withholding taxes were relaxed to encourage more overseas investment. The move will also apply to | Read More »
I decided to try and make some coherent sense of my increasingly dystopian thoughts about modern politics. Mostly American politics, however a lot of this would apply in other nations as well. We have heard all of the adjectives before, politics today are too shrill, too partisan, ineffective, broken, etc. I will try to make some sense of it all. Since I have called myself | Read More »
Your favorite Guy. gal, charleton, whatever, was so WAAAAAAAAAYY better than this evil Romney Squish who is little better than Obama, Amirite? Count ME in that group, I was a big Perry fan and lost out. So what now? Well here is what now, stop complaining because there is no one of us who is smart enough to know exactly who is the best candidate, | Read More »
Have the radicals totally taken over? Have they started rounding up conservatives to send to reeducation camps yet? Here is parts of an article from Washington Times: “”California also became the first state in the nation to require a prescription for obtaining any drug containing dextromethorphan, an ingredient found in many popular over-the-counter cough suppressants, including Robitussin, NyQuil and Dimetapp. Voter identification continued to | Read More »
Peggy Noonan, who once wrote speeches for Ronald Reagan was, and has been someone who has moved in a NON-conservative conservative direction over the years. Now, I will not say that Peggy(not her real name) is not a conservative. She is actually very conservative. However, (and this is a big however) She has repeatadly, and consistenly attacked every single person who ever made the nati0onal | Read More »
Ok, I am writing this only from memory so bear with me. Just a few minutes ago, on The Hannity show, Krauthammer said (I paraphrase) that Newt Gingrich had too much baggage, and that he would “Frighten” much of te electorate. Well, Historically I say that is Bunk. Let me state before hand, that I am not a big Gingrich supporter. I actually support | Read More »
I think that 2012 will be a growth year and 2013 might be really big growth. I will explain why I think that in a second but first the recommendations. 1) If you hold gold or other metals be thinking about selling. I already sold half of my gold for a small profit and all the rest will be pure gravy. Gold may go up | Read More »
Congress has failed to reform agricultural subsidies according to this story from WAPO. “”””House keeps farm subsidies, cuts food aid as it passes food and farm spending bill WASHINGTON — The Republican-led House voted to slash domestic and international food aid Thursday while rejecting cuts to farm subsidies. A spending bill to fund the nation’s food and farm programs would cut the Women, Infants and | Read More »
I just saw an interview with Herman Cain on the O’Reilly program. In this interview Cain touted the now traditional Republican mantra about economic recovery; Tax cuts. When O’Reilly asked him about lowered government revenues while we are so deep in debt, he responded with the normal supply side response that the economy is not to be viewed with static, but rather dynamic analysis. All | Read More »
The AP reports this: { FAIRLESS HILLS, Pa. (AP) — Pitching the promise of energy independence, President Barack Obama cautioned Wednesday that it’s going to be tough to transition from America’s oil-dependent economy and acknowledged there’s little he can do to lower gas prices over the short term. “I’m just going to be honest with you. There’s not much we can do next week or | Read More »
I think we are missing the boat here. We are arguing about simple tax policy. But since there seems to be problems with both fiscal and monetary stimulus it is clear that something else is needed. (after all, the government HAS to Do something right?) It is clear to me that we have a lag in aggregate demand because everyone already has what they need. | Read More »
Larry Summers, of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, and all around idiot Keynesian, has murmured something to the effect that rebuilding could temporarily boost the Japanese economy. That is an amazing amount of lunacy to come from someone who is supposedly a trained and respected economist. It violates one of the basic tenets of economics. Bastiat’s broken windows fallacy. Don’t let anyone fool you, a | Read More »
It seems to me that if anyone posts a diary promoting some Republican presidential hopeful then it quickly becomes a slug fest and an occasion of both denigrating the person being mentioned and promoting some other candidate. I admit that I have been guilty of this myself, and I apologize. But let’s just cool it ok? First of all, we don’t even know who is running | Read More »
Texas is still a solid Red state, but this cannot be taken for granted. It is changing rapidly toward Democrat. Rick Perry is a popular and successful governor who is being challenged by an ex-mayor, Bill White, who left his city with some huge financial problems. (his replacement, Democrat Annise Parker has been much more conservative and has had to slash the cities budget). Nevertheless, | Read More »
Forget all your theories and equations, it is now possible to simply measure the performance of government economic stimulus, and various attempts to boost consumer demand. We can look at the 1930′s, the 1970′s, we can look to Japan in the 1990′s, we can look at Europe, and our present situation. It is not possible for the government to stimulate aggregate demand enough to do | Read More »
I have been excoriated as an ugly American for not “getting” soccer. So I watched a lot of the world Cup, I gave it a try I really did. What I saw was pretty bad. There was not much scoring, but when there was the referees called it back. There was the most horrible flopping and play acting. I even saw a guy who looked | Read More »
Wow, we live in interesting times (curse you ancient Chinese philosophers!). I have long held out that Obama had yet to prove that he was as bad or as incompetent as Carter, but I tell you, it’s pretty damn close.
Well look who is the latest left wing media about to go belly up? None other than the magazine of the Reds for the last century. The Nation is facing a major shortfall as reported in Politico: Here is an excerpt. Nation faces $1,000,000 deficit The Nation is facing a $1,000,000 deficit and, as a result, it’s asking some of its reporters to make pleas | Read More »
So you think the world has been turned upside down in the aftermath of the 9/11/2004 terror attacks? Well what would you think would be the mindset of people in the western world if all of the following happened in a twenty year period? Attempted assasinations of the heads of state of Spain, Germany, the USA, and Belgium. And attempts against several British ministers and | Read More »
I would like to see lawmakers try to introduce legislation of this type: If any one, or group of persons, either in or out of the government, find any sort of waste, fraud, abuse, or duplication in the federal government, they need to present a paper outlining the problem with a possible solution. Then an agency of the justice department created for this reason, is | Read More »
Sorry for this short Diary but I would like to hear the thoughts of others. The Obama administration has gone out of its way to insult and pick on Israel. There have never in the past been any problem with building homes in Jerusalem, and the shabby treatment of Netanyahu went beyond the contempt which Obama normally bestows on our allies. I had to ask | Read More »
The enlightenment philosopher John Locke is commonly thought of as the first exponent of the doctrine of natural rights, However some trace it back further to the Roman Stoic Philosophers. The Stoics were concerned with right behavior and were respecters of religion but did not admit to the worship of any particular sect or deity. They postulated that what set man apart from the animals | Read More »
I was foremost among us who were gloomy and downcast after the election of Obama and the Democrat majorities in Congress. I really thought that it was the beginning of the end. You see, I had this view point. That the Dems had learned from the experience of Bill Clinton, that they would take an incremental approach, that they would be bipartisan. And in so | Read More »
It snowed today in Houston. I know that to most of you it is “no big deal”. But to Houstonians, well we might go five or six years between snows. As political animals we tend to get all caught up in our worries. The economy, the war, global hoaxing, The O’ssiah, and the Gotterdammercrats. But sometimes we don’t stop and take time to consider the | Read More »
The little fables, parables, with a moral at the end, are the complete antidote to left wing ideology. Want to know how to think about welfare and redistribution? Remember the stories of The Grasshopper and the Ant, and The Little Red Hen? Wrestling with the Idea of global warming? How about The Boy Who Cried Wolf, and Chicken Little? Considering President Obama, his Nobel prize | Read More »
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