Three Signs Housing’s Getting Weaker
by Jacob Goldstein 3-signs-housing-s-getting-weaker?sc=nl&cc=pmb-20100622 After bottoming out in the first half of ’09, the housing market made something of a comeback late last year. The comeback...
View ArticleStrategic Defaults Don’t Really Exist… Who would have thought that? Oh,...
Hey, it’s about time! Finally someone who might be listened to has realized that there’s actually NOT a group of homeowners in this country that can afford their mortgage payments no problem, but have...
View ArticleMark Steyn: War on Christmas indicative of the “Western world at twilight”
“It’s not a small thing.” It’s an interesting interpretation of a phenomenon that is often considered exasperating but not necessarily the most important battle to fight. Yes, political correctness...
View ArticlePew poll: Support for gun rights, gay marriage up since 2004 and 2008 campaigns
Libertarian nation? I think a similar phenomenon is at work in both cases, as strange as that may sound, but I’m completely open to counterarguments. First the gay marriage numbers: The most amazing...
View ArticleHuffpo handwringing over Marco Rubio’s future
Care bears Let’s face it… liberals are simply more caring, compassionate and kind than conservatives, even when it comes to how they treat their opponents. It’s just one of those well known facts we...
View ArticlePot legalization advocates praise hands-off approach of…Bush?
No room for choom. The federal government announced this week it’s targeting California’s biggest medical marijuana dispensary— Harborside Health Center in Oakland— for closure and asset seizure. In...
View ArticleOnce more, with feeling: “Peak oil,” isn’t
Trends. Just in case you were looking for a couple more nails in the coffin of “peak oil,” the cataclysmic phenomenon that environmentalists are always feverishly insisting is just over the horizon,...
View ArticlePew poll: Little support for new gun control regulations after Aurora shooting
Hands off. Not a new phenomenon, either. In fact, incredibly enough, support for gun control actually declined after the Tucson shooting last year: Not sure how reliable that Virginia Tech comparison...
View ArticleDem convention strategy: Find Republicans to talk about anything but the...
And the obvious counter-strategy is …. Politico apparently got a leak from the DNC or the Obama campaign that may end up backfiring on the Democrats. Three weeks out from their convention, Mike Allen...
View ArticleWho Built It?
We're seeing the back and forth between the Dems and the GOP about "who built it," whether the economy is a function of both public and private action (as artfully expressed by Elizabeth Warren and...
View ArticleChristie on Pelosi’s ‘obstructionist’ lamentations: “She’s part of the problem”
Called out. It gets pretty galling hearing House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi constantly bemoaning and repining the lack of compromise in Congress these days, as if partisan disagreement is some...
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