The Problem of Low Oil, High Mileage, and Going Green
Oil prices are dropping. For many, including myself, this comes as a relief. However, there are some for whom dropping oil prices pose a critical problem: American auto makers. A quick case study of...
View ArticleMortgage Pariahs
Remember the controversial story a few months ago, in which NBC abruptly pulled-down a spoof that playfully poked fun at Democrats? At first, controversy erupted because many of us assumed that, while...
View ArticleEbenezer Pelosi?
Nancy Pelosi wants to ‘decrease the surplus population’, Ebenezer Scrooge style. From Drudge: STEPHANOPOULOS: Hundreds of millions of dollars to expand family planning services. How is that stimulus?...
View ArticleA Conservative Stimulus Package
If anyone needs a stimulus these days, it’s the Conservative movement. Don’t get me wrong – it’s not that the movement is dying, or ill-funded, or even slowing down. No, it’s alive and kicking, just...
View ArticleOn the Importance of Advancing Liberty and Free Markets
My good friend Julia Kiewit recently submitted the following to a fellowship. I thought it was a concise, accurate view of the relationship between liberty and free markets. There is much more that...
View ArticleMarkets, Morality, and the Problem of Fractured Thinking
In two recent posts, Julia Kiewit and Robin Dembroff remarked on the free market. At a glance, it may not seem like the two were remarking on the same thing, but they were. Julia engaged the free...
View ArticleEvangelicals Curbbed the Housing Bubble
Sorry Chris Hitchens, but God is pretty great for the economy. At least, that’s what the New York Times is saying. According to New York Times reporter Zubin Jelveh, there is good reason to think...
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Party Like It’s 1773: A Report from a Tax Day Tea Party
It’s not clear how many attended the hundreds of “Tax Day Tea Party” events held throughout the nation today. The estimates are pouring in, but we’ll never really know for sure how many showed up to...
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Tea Party Pictures from Yorba Linda, CA
By Joi Weaver Wednesday, reports came in from across the country of citizens gathering in crowds by the thousands, protesting increasing governmental intrusion into their lives, protesting the use of...
View ArticleTaxing Tiny Tim: California Raises Taxes for Parents
In a bizarre twist that reminds one of Scrooge rather than Schwarzenegger, the state of California decided last spring to significantly reduce its dependent tax credit. In other words, it just became...
View ArticleI :heart: My Boss: Achieving Employee Efficiency
Two facts: It has been pouring rain in Southern California for three days. I can be an incredibly stubborn person. Added together, they created the scenario in which I refused to drive to work and...
View ArticleA Rush to the Middle… Class
It’s the speech the White House Communications Office spends a year writing, and the news media spends a couple days dissecting. It was important enough that the Framers mandated that the president...
View ArticleThe Virtues of Capitalism – Book Review
As a quick primer, The Virtues of Capitalism: The Moral Case for Free Markets by Scott Rae and Austin Hill does an excellent job of hitting the talking points and fleshing out some of the back-story of...
View ArticleThe State Of Our Union Is…Confused.
President Obama’s State of the Union address was nothing new. As all politicians do, he called attention to a few high points of the past year, but primarily focused on the future, laying out a fresh...
View ArticleCapitalism is Not God’s Dream for Humanity
Capitalism is often deeply intertwined with the American’s idea of patriotism and Christianity, and for good reason. Capitalism, like the Christian life, encourages discipline. As seen through...
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