Category: Republicans & Conservatives

Am I prejudiced? You bet I am. Now, prove you’re not.
My understanding of the mechanisms of prejudice comes from several widely divergent sources. First, it comes from my family’s long history of involvement in Southern politics, particularly the bonfires of southern Mississippi politics in the 1950s and ’60s. Secondly, […]

As the dubious Chinese curse says, we live in “interesting times”. Working on my prejudice article after the worst week in Stock Market history I ran across an article I wrote four years ago explaining political uses of economics. It’s a pretty good explanation of Democrat economic policy…
Mark Twain said that there were…”lies, […]

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The origins of the credit crisis have been the most difficult research project I have attempted since I first got seriously interested in Global Warming five years ago, and largely for the same reason. Its status as a political lightning rod makes good information hard to come by and today’s publicly available interpretations utterly […]

Thank you for keeping the interests of the 99th District in mind in your consideration of the various Wall Street bailout proposals. As a local taxpayer and economist by profession, I am concerned that Congress has been deceived by Wall Street. Wall Street and the finance industry claim that lending is crucial to American businesses […]

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