When President Obama announced his intention to extend the Bush era tax cuts over a month ago, he called a press conference to defend himself against leftist critics who were livid that he was breaking his promises. President Obama was doing the right thing, but...
It is not that I dislike being right, but there are times that it pains me to go back and look at pessimistic predictions I made that ended up coming true. And so far, the things I said about the behemoth FinReg bill have been...
I always say that where NT Wright is strong (theology and hermeneutics) he has few peers (if any), but where he is weak (economics and politics) he is atrocious in a way I barely ever see. I am reading his Romans devotional book in my daily devotions...
Perhaps you heard the news today that California's budget deficit is worse than people thought - as in, um, $25 billion. $25.4 billion to be precise, but I assure you that extra $ 0.4 billion is not causing anyone any anxiety. I mean, what is...
One of the things I often have to remind my clients in my work as an Investment Manager is that while the sum of our parts is always going to be just fine, it is irrational to expect that each individual part will always be...
Though a fair amount of things that I care about, particularly here in California, remain undecided (as of 10:30 pm on Wednesday night), the reality is that the most important thing I want to write about regarding tonight's glorious election results is now fully known. ...
The President has introduced policies since he came into office that I have rightfully lambasted, and at the end of the day, the policies are what count (as I mentioned the other day). But almost rising to the same level of danger as the policies...
James Carville's famous statement in 1992, "it's the economy, stupid", has become political folklore. The line is used over and over again by pundits and journalists (or at least some rendition of the line). Come to think of it, I just used it in my...
2010 is the most important election of my life (so far), and I say that knowing that us political junkies tend to say that every two years. But this time it is true. And I think most people who are sympathetic to the basic worldview...
"The philosophers of the 18th century argued that the church had to move out of the political sphere, and the state out of the social and economic spheres. Hong Kong enjoys one of the freest societies in the world: total social freedom, total economic freedom,...
