A few years ago, with tongue securely in cheek, I wrote about the Fed buying treasury bonds. I tried using the absurd to make a point. I explained this would be like issuing your own credit card, buying everything you want, paying for the credit card with your checking account, and filling the checking account with cash advances from the credit card. I was just kidding. I never thought this would actually happen. It has. My problem is that it’s getting hard to be absurd in America today.
Read more ›Archive for January 24th, 2015
Firearms Rates and Murder Rates
By now, you’re very familiar with the Left’s oh-so-predictable attempt to use every shooting by an amoral wacko (who often had his gun illegally) to promote taking guns away from the vast majority of law-abiding gun owners. Bill Whittle decided to take a fresh look at some of the pap the Leftists smear around.
Read more ›Government housing is a bad idea
his past week, following the nation’s celebration of the birthday of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the U.S. Supreme Court heard an important case related to landmark law enacted during the civil rights era – the Fair Housing Law of 1968. This case highlights how some policies that followed civil rights era legislation – in this case government low-income housing projects – actually have hurt the very communities they were supposed to help.
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