By Jessica Peck Corry (Jessica@JessicaCorry.com)
Milton Friedman, winner of the Nobel Price in economics, has denounced Refs C & D for what they are–a massive tax increase that won’t help bring accountability to our ever-growing government.
By Jessica Peck Corry (Jessica@JessicaCorry.com)
In America, you can criticize your doctor. You can make all the lawyer jokes you want. You can even interrogate your preacher. Call into question the abilities of your kid’s teacher, however, and you’re likely to have an entire teacher’s union screaming outside your window. It’s a lesson Arnold Schwarzenegger learned the hard way yesterday. (more…)
By Jeremy Schupbach
Senator Harry Reid announced yesterday that he would vote against the confirmation of Judge John Roberts for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. The Senator from Nevada has made it clear that he is now a wholly owned subsidy of the left. After a week of testimony, thousands of pages of documents, and the opportunity to question Judge Roberts ad nauseum (and some of the questions were noxious) Senator Reid had not made up his mind about how he would vote. (more…)
By Jessica Peck Corry (Jessica@JessicaCorry.com)
I get excited to see my cousin’s emails when they pop up in my inbox. Robert, a West Point graduate and a Captain in the U.S. Army, writes to me often from Iraq. Despite the heat, the homesickness, and the dust storms that have defined his time there, each correspondence confirms that his sense of humor remains intact. More importantly, each email confirms that he is safe and still passionate for life.
He’s taught me a lot about this war we’re in. In his emails, he jokes that he’s got carpal tunnel syndrome as a result of 24-hour internet access. He reports that he’s finished his master’s thesis while stationed in Iraq. He tells me there are icicles dangling from the air-conditioning unit outside his room (yes, he has his own room and yes, it has air conditioning).
Maybe it’s not so bad over there, I think.
But then he reminds me. (more…)
By Jessica Peck Corry (Jessica@JessicaCorry.com)
Rocky Mountain News editor Vince Carroll hits the nail on the head in his Tuesday analysis of the liberal push to have a national “conversation on poverty” in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
He writes: “until Katrina, we are supposed to believe only media commentators, academics and Democratic politicians thought or cared about poverty, because—well, because they’re just a lot more compassionate and thoughtful than everyone else.”