The Loudest Cricket

Everything takes a back seat to Obama’s ideologies, not just jobs.  Did the health-care bill improve the medical industry?  Did the financial regulation bill improve banking?  Did the stimulus bill create any jobs?  Will the proposed cap-and-trade bill help meet our long-term energy needs.  It’s all about Obama’s agenda and ego.

First, the ruling does not “block” stem cell research, embryonic or not.  Second, research will still go on in the private sector, even if the government were to stop funding it.  And lastly, scientists have been able to create embryonic-like stem cells from adult stem cells, so the whole issue may be moot.

The Freep hates the fact that we’re a democratic republic.  They want to take power away from the people and put it in the hands of the politicians.  In Michigan, judges are elected by the people, not appointed by the governor.  This allows greater independence of the three branches of our state government.
In 2008, a [...]

Even after 9/11, Muslims, Christians and Jews get along better in this country than they do anywhere else in the world. Despite knee-jerk warnings every time there’s a terror attack, backlash against the Muslim community in the United States has been minimal. On the whole, we’ve stayed true to our values.
It may [...]

Obama spent the last two years demonizing the private sector, so it’s no surprise that businesses have decided to stay on the sidelines while liberalism runs amok in Washington.
A record $2 trillion now sits on corporate balance sheets waiting to be invested amidst reasonably cheap assets prices. What holds back investment is uncertainty [...]

It has not been aid, after all, that has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty in China and India but the move to market-oriented reforms, freer competition and the unleashing of the creative, entrepreneurial spark in the human person. In a recent book, one of India’s former finance ministers [...]

Couldn’t happen to a more deserving member of the Ruling Class.

The governor’s proposed services tax, for instance, might be more palatable if it were made revenue-neutral in the first year and tied to a phase-out of the onerous Michigan Business Tax surcharge.
Wishful thinking.  The service tax will just be another temporary measure that becomes permanent, like the gasoline tax.  State legislators will see it [...]

You couldn’t script this any better.  The woman who cost the previous police chief his job also had an affair with the new chief.  And the old chief brought the affair, and possible sexual harassment, to the attention of those who fired him, apparently hoping to get a better severance deal.  His evidence?  Text messages.  [...]

Obama was in Michigan yesterday for the groundbreaking of a new plant (why not buy one of the hundreds of empty plants around the state?) that will be making batteries for electric cars.  He spent about $151 million to create about 400 jobs, which works out to be about $377,000 per job.  At that rate, [...]