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Folks, if you didn’t know by now, Obama is a radical: Two of the president’s proposals to cripple the charitable and mortgage interest deductions are indeed “radical” as they are squarely aimed not just at high income families who will see their deductions slashed but also at the churches, charities, schools and every not-for-profit that [...]

Stones Cry Out: And you gotta’ hand it to him; he at least had the intellectual honesty to call his program “Paul Harvey News and Comment”. These days, comment is passed off as news. Would that today’s broadcasters held to that same standard and had that same transparency. My favorite recurring line of his was [...]

Diagnosed here: I don’t know much about Jindal, and by all accounts his speech was excruciating. (I tried to watch some of it, but it was too awkward. He seems to be the inverse of Obama, in that he’s much better at speaking extemporaneously than reading from a teleprompter. Which seems like a good thing, [...]

More nonsense: A quick look at the study reveals all sorts of problems: It doesn’t examine individuals, but rather averages across areas, which leads to a red state vs. blue state analysis that allows for startling headlines but in fact tells us very little. One of the findings is that Utah has more per-capita online [...]

Hugh Hewitt’s Banker Guy explains: FACT: Banks are making loans. Maybe not all banks but many banks are making good loans. My bank and many of my competitors are making loans. Having said that, we are not getting a lot of loan requests and loans that we do make are on conservative terms to existing [...]

An Instapundit reader notes: In 1835 Alexis de Tocqueville cautioned, “The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.” Alas, we are there.

Thoughts below sparked by this Mark Steyn piece, and the comments can be found here. • I was a teen-ager when Kruschev said, ‘Your grandchildren will live under Communism.’ I laughed, but I now have grandchildren, and I’m no longer laughing. • The ‘progressives’ aka communists have for 50 years, been planning this. They have [...]

The Anchoress with scalpal: When people believe their own soul is in peril if they participate in an action, the conscientious objection should be sustained. It always has been, before. Can it be sustainable in Obamaland, or is this very fundamental sort of American freedom to be denied her citizenry in service to expedient (and [...]

Below is an introduction to a first person account of a most interesting philosophical dialogue on religion today — if you have a few minutes, you will want to read it all: A friend of mine who wishes to remain anonymous took an account of the dialogue between Plantinga and Dennett at last weekend’s APA. [...]

Hmmm: Last week, I reported on this blog that the New Hampshire Legislature made a dramatic declaration warning the federal government that they risk “nullifying the Constitution.” States making this declaration to date: • Washington • New Hampshire • Arizona • Montana • Michigan • Missouri • Oklahoma • Hawaii UPDATE: Virginia is also restless. The [...]