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Monthly Archives: May 2011

It’s Official!

Time To Get Serious About Manufacturing

From Thursday’s Wall Street Journal: GLEN BURNIE, Md.—When Chesapeake Bay Candle decided to build a U.S. factory, founders Mei Xu and David Wang thought it would take nine months and cost $2.5 million. But $3.5 million and 13 months later, the couple is still waiting for their final occupancy permit. A temporary sign is draped […]

Give Us A Break!

Bob Ingle, in today’s Asbury Park Press, comments on how the threat of police layoffs didn’t intimidate residents who voted down tax increases above the cap: ……..politicians have done police officers a big disservice by using them to increase revenue flow. When we see officers in the traditional “protect and serve” role, everyone loves the cops. But when the […]

Last Night’s Debate (Slightly Edited)

. . And currently on Drudge: Read it here.

WSJ Learns From CommonSenseForBelmar

In today’s Wall Street Journal, George Mason University economics professor Donald Boudreaux makes the same brilliant analogy that I have been making for the past few weeks: What if supermarkets were run like we run our school system? . Suppose that we were supplied with groceries in same way that we are supplied with K-12 […]

Got Him!

Great job!  U.S. military brings it home.  Now let’s bring them home!

Gas Prices At Record Lows!

It’s very discouraging to hear the incessant prattling both in the media and on the street corner about high gas prices.  Nobody in the media or on the street seems to know the true cause of high oil prices.  Some of the economic “experts” on TV may know the truth but are unwilling to admit it.  And […]

Bernanke Is Selling Us A Dead Polly

There’s an old financial analogy that high gold prices are the canary in the coal mine for price inflation.  In the old days, before miners had instruments to measure levels of deadly, but odorless, gasses they used to bring a canary down into the mines with them.  If the canary died, they knew to get […]