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Helen Button Morton

Markets in everything

The price of oil may be the best automatic stabilizer that we have. The economy soars and the price of oil increases, imposing an automatic synthetic "tax" that dampens growth. The opposite is also true; the price of oil now falls because the economy is softening, and that will put a lot of money in the hands of American consumers. Oil is already down almost 12% from its peak. If a typical suburban family buys, say, 2000 gallons of gasoline a year, the price savings embedded in a 12% reduction will exceed the silly one-time payment from the stimulus package that passed the Senate today. If oil were to retreat to $60 with concommitant declines in the price of gasoline and heating fuel, the savings for a typical family would dwarf the artificial stimulus in the rebate bill.

TigerHawk: Cheaper Oil Ahead?

Waah! My publicity stunt backfired!

The problem with you Nazi assnuggets is that you forget some of us still live in states where freedom of speech is real, not “symbolic”. You can say whatever you like, sure; but we can say whatever we like, too, and there’s not one damn thing you can do about it, skippy - threats of “prosecution” notwithstanding.

Waah! My publicity stunt backfired!

Global View - WSJ.com

There is another kind of honor, however, which is uniquely bestowed by one's adversaries and enemies. It is the honor one acquires by defying temptations of popularity, by the acceptance of long odds, by suffering, by what is called the nobility of the last-ditch defense.

A good reason to vote for John McCain

2008 Elections in a Nutshell

Both parties are convinced that government is exceptionally skilled at doing things they want more of, and entirely incompetent when it comes to things they don't like. Every candidate is a candidate for change, using the failed ideas of the past, to create a brave new world for the children

Yeah, that about sums it up.

Helping your child understand the stay-at-home server

Big people have a server at the "office". The office is a boring place where big people go and do boring things.

Mommy, Why is There a Server in the House?

Power Line: William Katz: The past is blasting again

The Dems of 1864 seemed to be going through the same emotions many of them are going through today. Harry Truman understood people, and warned us, in 1943, how people would act after World War II.

William Katz: The past is blasting again