I had a hard time deciding what to write about today.  In the end I decided on timeliness.  I chose not to talk about this:
http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/feb/09/16-illegals-sue-arizona-rancher/
Even though it makes me want to gouge my eyes out.
Instead, my brief thoughts on President Obama’s speech last night.
1) I believe he has good intentions and has tried to at [...]

The stimulus bill is more expensive than the Iraq and Afghanistan war combined. 
“As a nation, we got into this mess by spending and investing money that didn’t exist. We won’t get out of it by doing more of the same.”  Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK).  That is why it is called a bubble.  There’s nothing of [...]

In my commercial transactions course today, my professor, who likes to scoff at free-market solutions, talked about giving states the right to set limits on the rates credit cards can charge.  He remarked, “We as a society never decided that it was okay to charge 30% interest.”  I have to disagree.  While we don’t like to [...]

 
Are we guilty of “confirmation bias?”  This is a built in tendency to favor evidence that supports our current beliefs and to dismiss evidence that challenges them.
I have wondered about this when researching the new stimulus proposal. As I’ve read the WSJ or the NY Times, or watched CNN, have I just listened to the [...]