Roller Coaster
The stock market has been up and down today. It should be able to recover all the losses from the past week as long as Obama does not give any more press conferences or public speeches. One more word about “shared sacrifice” and the Federal Reserve will be forced to initiate another round of quantitative easing.
Is That You, Mr. Man Behind the Curtain?
Apparently someone made $10 billion betting that the
Reaching for the Stars
One of the founding principles of PC culture is that standards must be reduced to the lowest common denominator. Obviously excellence does not make anyone feel good about themselves. As a firm believer in this principle, Education Secretary Arne Duncan is now distributing waivers to schools that cannot achieve the student testing requirements of No Child Left Behind.
Punishment
Do you know what happens to those who lower
Anti-College Peer Pressure
Part of a growing movement to eradicate the Electoral College, Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill Monday that would award
Compare and Contrast
Since President Obama is so keen on comparing his spending proposals to the spending levels of Dwight Eisenhower, here’s another comparison he should love. In just four days last week, the Obama administration increased the national debt more than Presidents Truman and Eisenhower did over an entire decade, even accounting for inflation.
