Unconventional Wisdom

Crazy Politico, I totally agree. If a business is engaging in bad business no matter how big it is, then it should fail. Big gov’t bailouts aren’t helping the situation. Especially if some companies never learn. Interventionist governments are not the way to go when the economy is falling south!

Heh, Al Franken has a bit of a foul mouth doesn’t he.

Via LewRockwell!

Perhaps I’ll keep up this blog with a focus on the Presidential campaign and then by the time of the election, I’m thinking about shutting down the blog. There was never a solid focus at times for this blog anyway.

In it’s place I have decided if there should be another blog with a more personal or creative focus or I should just have a feed aggregator. That is this space can become the site for a news junkie with feeds from blogs, media sources, etc. That decision will be made depending upon how easy it is to upload the necessary programs.

I’m going to make sure I keep an archives somewhere so this site won’t just go away. If I decide that it should be re-activated it will. For right now this concept might have to be put to bed.

Thanks for reading!

From Marlene Lang of the Southtown:

Less than one week after the Sept. 11 anniversary and in the heat of the scrappiest-ever election campaign, comes another day of national observance, Constitution Day on Sept. 17.

Didn’t know Constitution Day was coming? Neither do most high school students, a survey found, even though a law passed in 2004 requires that all schools receiving federal funds set aside the day to teach the history and content of the U.S. Constitution.

The establishment of Constitution Day came as an amendment on an omnibus budget bill, tagged on by Sen. Robert Byrd. (D-W.V.), who explained his belief that “an informed public is our best defense against tyranny.” The senator is correct, of course.

Several extensive studies have found that in spite of the noble labors of social studies teachers, students simply are not getting it. While education on the Constitution is part civics programs, research by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation found many high school students did not grasp the meaning of the First Amendment of the Constitution; many believed free speech rights went overboard and that flag burning was illegal, for example. For those who are confused, here: Flag burning is not illegal.

Read the whole thing!

American Spectator:

When President George W. Bush nominated Henry Paulson to serve as Treasury Secretary, Republicans raised a red flag that Paulson, who, along with his wife, has strong ties to the Democrat party, would not be an honest broker with Republicans.

That seems to have been borne out, with sources inside of Treasury reporting that Paulson briefed Sen. Barack Obama and his campaign advisers on the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac bailout plan before offering such a briefing to the McCain campaign.

In fact, the McCain campaign had sought a similar briefing several days ago as word spread that a bailout plan was to be unveiled and had been turned down by Paulson’s senior staff.

The next question is: Why was the Obama campaign so keen on getting advanced word about the bailout?

“They have a huge problem with the mortgage and housing market story, and everyone is missing it,” says a Republican political media consultant with ties to the Obama campaign due to the bipartisan nature of the firm he does work with.

“You look at Obama’s economic advisers, the guys he has counted on from day one and who have raised him a ton — and I mean a ton — of money: Franklin Raines and Jim Johnson, both of them are waist to neck deep in the mortgage debacle.”

Both Raines and Johnson have served as CEO of Fannie Mae, with Raines taking over from Johnson. Both are key political and economic advisers to Obama.

Read the whole thing. Via Newsalert!