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Fr. Thomas Euteneuer has an excellent article (h/t Austrian Economists) on the death of Senator Kennedy, which looks at it from a Catholic point of view.  It is the first one I have seen which criticizes the Archdiocese of Boston for allowing Senator Kennedy the privilege of a Christian burial.  It is not mean spirited [...]

Every January recipients of Social Security receive a cost-of-living-adjustment (COLA) based on the change in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) from September to September.  For instance the change in CPI from September, 2008 to September, 2009 would show up in the January, 2010 checks of retirees.  For the first time since automatic adjustments were implemented in [...]

Is health care the Democrat’s Afghanistan.  By this I don’t mean it in relation of how the problems in Iraq/Afghanistan hurt the Republicans.  It is in reference to what some call Afghanistan–”The Graveyard of Empires.”  It is called this because numerous empires, in an attempt to conquer the country, have only met failure.  In the last [...]

Reprentative Joe Sestak (D-Pa) was on Fox News this morning talking about his town hall meetings and the debate over health care reform.  He talked about how the government wanted to set up a public-sector health insurance plan to compete with those in the private sector.  He then said something I didn’t realize about the health [...]

The Labor Department said today second quarter productivity rose 6.4%.  That is certainly good news for the economy.  Economic growth and wealth creation comes when individuals produce more goods and services with the same amount of inputs.  As well, the higher than expected productivity numbers help ease some of the fears of higher inflation from [...]

Congress is likely to pass this week a bill to extend the “Cash for Clunkers” program–doubling the initial payout of $1 billion.   There have been a number of good items here, here, and here which detail how this program, though designed to get less fuel-efficient cars off the road, will not produce the desired results of less energy [...]

In the past couple of months President Obama has repeatedly stated he does not want to nationalize health care.  He said his proposal of a federally run healt care plan would only compete with private insuance companies, not put them out of business.  Yet this Youtube video contradicts him (h/t to the Drudge Report for [...]