Archive for March, 2009

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News Flash: Effort = Success!

Thursday, March 26th, 2009

Gosh… Effort = success? Who woulda thunk it? Crazy talk: The Secret to Raising Smart Kids: Growing Pains Many people assume that superior intelligence or ability is a key to success. But more than three decades of research shows that an overemphasis on intellect or talent—and the implication that such traits are innate and fixed—leaves [...]

Walter Williams on States’ Rights and the 10th Amendment

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

Here’s an interesting article by the always-excellent Walter Williams: States Rebellion Pending: Our Colonial ancestors petitioned and pleaded with King George III to get his boot off their necks. He ignored their pleas, and in 1776, they rightfully declared unilateral independence and went to war. Today it’s the same story except Congress is the one [...]

A Straightforward Description of How Government Caused the Financial Crisis

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

Simple to follow and easy to understand: AIG is Left Holding the Government’s Bag: On March 16, Obama said this about AIG: I do want to comment on the news about executive bonuses at AIG. … This is a corporation that finds itself in financial distress due to recklessness and greed. Under these circumstances, it’s [...]

Naked Government Extortion – AIG Bonuses Not Returned Voluntarily

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

There’s government extortion of the garden, tax-and-spend variety. And then, there’s government extortion of the naked variety: AIG Bonuses: Surrendered Under Pressure?: setDefault(‘cnbc_textbody’); An email from the head of a controversial unit at AIG suggests employees who gave up their bonuses did not do so voluntarily, but feared their names would be released if they [...]

Resignation Letter from “Evil” AIG Executive

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

Congress and the Obama Administration simply must have known the nature of the AIG contracts, bonuses, employee status, etc., and so when they stirred up populist hatred against hardworking people, they were guilty of terrible moral–and probably legal-crimes. It’s simply unfathomable to any rational person that the political leaders of a nation of laws (not [...]

Tiger Woods Reads Atlas Shrugged

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

This awesome: Why Tiger Woods is the Opposite of Hope: Here’s the thing: He planned it. The win, the baby, the half year off. Probably in that order, too. And I don’t mean that he was gambling on the knee holding up and then won, or that he underestimated the pain and then won anyway. [...]

Obama – Worse Than Imagined

Sunday, March 22nd, 2009

Take a few minutes to read this: Obama’s “Extreme Makeover” of America: It is hard to decide any more which current government-spawned disasters and those to come one should dwell on. As on the popular TV program, ABC’s “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition,“ President Barack Obama is overseeing the demolition of the remnants of a republic [...]

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