Pundits all across the political spectrum have been saying that Arizona’s new law cracking down on illegal aliens is unconstitutional. On the news last night I saw the AZ governor saying that racial profiling is illegal and Arizona will not do it or words to that effect. OK, I get it. Some federal court has […]
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The Stop Sign Tax
A remarkable thing happened the other day. I was driving home from the post office and when I stopped at the stop sign on Sixth Avenue, at the Elm Street intersection, there was a pedestrian crossing the street! He was crossing Sixth Avenue right in front of me. Really! I saw him with my own […]
On “Social Justice”
With the election of Barack Obama to the presidency, the clamor for “social justice” is becoming louder. But what is “social justice?” All justice is social in nature. Absent a society of some sort, there can be neither justice nor injustice. Alone on a desert island, who is there to treat you unjustly, or justly, for […]
State of Arizona versus Shelton
I’ve said it before: the authorities don’t like it when we citizens know our rights. And they really hate it when we actually defend our rights
NBC News “Meltdown” Part 1
The problem that began with sub-prime loans has now spilled over into the rest of the mortgage market, as the economic downturn has led to massive lay-offs, with the result that many formerly credit-worthy people are now unemployed and cannot make their mortgage payments either.
So, the relatively small numbers of sub-prime loans that go bad, because the borrowers were not credit worthy to begin with, can bring down an entire world’s economy. We’ve proven that.
Rather than place blame on the politicians who required that loans be made to those who were not credit worthy, we blame the lenders themselves.