Posts Tagged ‘politics’
Inauguration Day
Congratulations to Barack Obama on becoming the 44th President of the United States. Whether you love him or hate him, it’s important that we respect the office, and even more important that we pray for our leaders. Remember, he is the President whether you voted for him or not, and we’re all better off if [...]
From the Newswire: January 12, 2008
Bulgaria is freezing its collective buns off… and mad at Russia to boot. I wonder how many political points we could pick up by sending about 1 million electric heaters to places like Bulgaria? That sounds like good economic stimulus to me, actually exporting something… That said, apparently the gas will resume flowing pretty soon, [...]
Russian predicts imminent collapse of US
This is pretty amusing, but also pretty sad: There have been a series of news articles over the last few months highlighting the predictions of Igor Panarin. He came up with a theory about 10 years ago that sometime between 2010 and 2011 the US would collapse into four nations, that Alaska would be reclaimed [...]
New Year, Same Old Politics
I appreciated this read from the Wall Street Journal: Minnesotans like to think that their state isn’t like New Jersey or Louisiana, and typically it isn’t. But we can’t recall a similar recount involving optical scanning machines that has changed so many votes, and in which nearly every crucial decision worked to the advantage of [...]
Land Use Morals
These kinds of things frustrate me… Houston Strategies posted this story, which recaps this story. Both of them basically attribute all of Houston’s economic success to it’s no-zoning approach to land-use regulation. I certainly agree that Houston’s lean regulatory system helps the economy, there’s no question about that. I usually agree with the things Tory [...]
Suburban Swing
From CNN today: Suburb’s Pain Could Swing Election I couldn’t agree more. This is the most critical issue that nobody is talking about. Highlights from the article: The plunge in the housing and financial markets, and the spiking of energy prices, have assured that the economy will be the top issue among rich and poor [...]
Falling behind
Great column on energy efficiency in other parts of the world today, courtesy Thomas Friedman. Here is the key quote: Unlike America, Denmark, which was so badly hammered by the 1973 Arab oil embargo that it banned all Sunday driving for a while, responded to that crisis in such a sustained, focused and systematic way [...]
Texas Foreclosures in Context (Why John Edwards is a Moron)
Alright, where to begin with this one… John Edwards was in town today, going on about how things are so bad in Houston. I guess he hasn’t read any newspapers recently, but what with the terrible busyness that comes with not being his party’s candidate, we can cut him some slack for that. From Newsradio [...]