Concise explanation of the $700B bailout plan

Ma and Pa Kettle not only explain the bailout plan, but now I understand how Obama plans to give taxcuts to 95% of Americans even though 40% don't pay any taxes!
How could I have been so blind?

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The comprehensive argument against Barack Obama

This website ignores all the rumors and innuendos about Obama, and concentrates only on provable facts. 

 

http://hotair.com/archives/2008/10/21/the-comprehensive-argument-against-barack-obama/

 

 

 

Orson Scott Card essay

I just heard Rush Limbaugh read this letter by Orson Scott Card, one of my favorite authors—who just happens to be a Democrat.  Talk about speaking truth to power!

In a democracy we get the government we deserve.

God help us if we deserve Barack Obama.

--Michael Master

Nobel Prize for economics

It was announced today that Paul Krugman, the leftist columnist for the New York Times, has won the Nobel Prize for economics.  This is almost as much a howler as Gore winning the Peace price last year.   Donald Luskin at National Review has a good suggestion:

 

Whatever the [Nobel] committee was thinking, the only remaining question is what the living Paul Krugman will do with his $1.4 million prize. Will he pay taxes on it at the low rates established in 2003 by George W. Bush, a president and a policy that Krugman has worked so assiduously to discredit? Or will he voluntarily pay at the higher rates he advocates?

Missing questions...

There have been two presidential debates so far, and John J. Pitney Jr. (at NationalReview.com) is curious why none of the following controversial subjects have been raised:

 

·        Abortion

·        Stem Cells

·        Cloning

·        School Prayer

·        Evolution

·        Gun control

·        Supreme Court

·        Illegal immigration

·        Affirmative action

 

Is it possible that Gwen Ifil and Tom Brokaw didn’t think anyone still cares about these issues?  Or maybe they’re afraid that the American people might learn something unpleasant about one of the candidates?

We’ll just have to wait and see what Bob Schieffer thinks we need to know.

 

What Is a 'Right'?

What Is a Right and How Do We Know?
from National Review Online

By Bill Whittle

During the presidential debate Tuesday night, Barack Obama was asked if he thought health care was a “right.”
He said he thought it was a right. Well, if you accept that premise, I think you can ask some logical follow-up questions: Food is more important than health care. You die pretty quickly without food. Do we have a “right” to food in America? What about shelter? Do we have a “right” to housing? And if we do have a right to housing, what standard of housing do we have a right to? And if it is a right, due to all Americans, wouldn’t that mean that no one should have to accept any housing, or health care, which is inferior to anyone else’s… since it’s a right?

 

sand and rock

At the end of the Sermon on the Mount, our Lord speaks to us of the two possible ways of constructing the edifice of one’s life: building on sand or building on solid ground. He who builds on sand is the one who builds only on the foundation of visible and tangible things: success, one’s career, money. As if these were the true realities. But one day all of these things will pass away. We see that now in the crash of the great banks: all this money disappears; it’s nothing. And in like fashion all these things, which would appear to be the true reality to count on, are only second-order realities. Whoever builds his life on these realities, on material things, on success, on appearances, builds on sand.                   Pope Benedict XVI, Oct. 6, 2008