Archive for the 'Free Market' Category

All Kinds Of Ugly

There are several things which caught my eye today, so consider this another installment of I, Pandora’s “Around The World”.
First, from the pen of Thomas Sowell comes an essay on race politics: “Mascot Politics“:
Years ago, when Jack Greenberg left the NAACP Legal Defense Fund to become a professor at Columbia University, he announced that he [...]

‘Big Oil’, Big Good

2 Comments | Posted by matthew on May 14th, 2008 in America, Free Market, Global Warming, Government

Cal Thomas, In Defense Of ‘Big Oil’:
Where is it written that the cost for a product or service should be frozen in place and in time, never to rise again, or to rise at a pace commensurate with our incomes? People who think this way know little to nothing about supply and demand and less [...]

Obama The Racist And Government (In)Ability

Heather MacDonald in the Wall Street Journal:
Some in Mr. Wright’s crew of charlatans have already had their moments in the spotlight; others are less well known. They form part of the tragic academic project of justifying self-defeating underclass behavior as “authentically black.”
Obama is coming out hard against the man he previously dismissed with “Oh, [...]

Open Lines

1 Comment | Posted by matthew on April 25th, 2008 in Free Market, Government, Technology

On government responsibility and prerogative and power:
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
~P.J. O’Rourke
“If the Internet has taught us anything, it’s that it’s pretty presumptuous to predict what the future will be. We should be very, very cautious about imposing regulations based on what we think [...]

Predicted: Spectacular Failure

1 Comment | Posted by matthew on February 27th, 2008 in Democrats, Free Market, Government, Health

In the Cleveland Plain Dealer Blog, V. David Sartin lays out differences in the two Democrat candidates health-care plans.
Can two practical failures, moral evils, and spectacularly bad ideas be compared?
Hillary Clinton and Barak Hussein Obama can claim as many times as she pleases that their plan will only cost X, but when the plan is [...]

10,000 Lies

9 Comments | Posted by matthew on February 26th, 2008 in America, Choices, Culture, Democrats, Education, Free Market, Politics, Taxes, Unions

Does the truth we find in this humor scare anyone else?
I’ve had the following images floating around on my computer for a while, waiting for me to actually post them. It seems to me, in their attempt to paint the liberal and Democrat as the loving, caring, truly human leadership, anybody with a mind will [...]

Visa, It’s Everywhere You Want To Vote

3 Comments | Posted by matthew on January 10th, 2008 in Democrats, Free Market, Law, Politics, Republican

Originally posted November 11th, one of the first articles written here at I, Pandora.
Internet voting is a hot-button issue today with plethora of heated rhetoric and a paucity of actual fact (it’s interesting to note that nearly all nearly all hypothetical e-voting catastrophes predicted by the dooms-day-ers in the media had ‘big’ and ‘evil’ corporations [...]

Having The Cake And Eating It Too

No Comments Yet | Posted by matthew on January 5th, 2008 in America, Culture, Election, Free Market, Republican

David Limbaugh, in his January 3rd column, contemplates the foundations of the American Experiment and the assaults against those foundations by ignorant yet usually well-meaning people of all stripes.
He asks whether or not conservatives have that “fire in the belly” necessary to motivate the country into entrusting its direction to their hands again.
Before Reagan was [...]

The Numbers Don’t Lie

No Comments Yet | Posted by matthew on December 31st, 2007 in America, Democrats, Election, Free Market, Republican

Two stories about numbers that aren’t lying. Unfortunately, numbers often don’t have voices capable of counteracting lies made by their misuse.
First, from The People’s Voice blog comes a bit of misinformed and communist rhetoric in support of HR 676 by our old friend Congressman Conyers.
Beginning with with the classic assumption that everybody worthwhile agrees with [...]

Global Warming Melts Down, Bush Wins, I Think I Like Mitt

With many thanks to Ms. Green, here’re a few bits of meat for y’all to chew on:

Michael T. Eckhart, president of American Council On Renewable Energy (ACORE) is a hot head and really ought to keep up the good work of exposing his own side for the windbags they are.
His email got to the wrong [...]

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