Daily Glimpse February 22, 2012

by Joshua Sharf | 6:30 pm, February 22, 2012

Daily Links From Glimpse From a Height “It Was a Horse!” “It Was a Mule!” Beldar on Obamacare’s cognitive dissonance: Flacks for the Obama Administration, including many lefty lawyers and law professors, would love to persuade you, the people, that they’re entitled to rely on one part of the Constitution, the taxing and spending clause, [...]

Daily Glimpse February 21, 2012

by Joshua Sharf | 6:30 pm, February 21, 2012

Daily Links From Glimpse From a Height Chicago Fed: Economic Growth in January above Average Via Calculated Risk: The Chicago Fed National Activity Index decreased to +0.22 in January from +0.54 in December, but remained positive for the second straight month for the first time in a year. … The index’s three-month moving average, CFNAI-MA3, [...]

Daily Glimpse February 20, 2012

by Joshua Sharf | 6:30 pm, February 20, 2012

Daily Links From Glimpse From a Height More Maximalist Executive Muscle-Flexing The SEC is apparently forcing corporate boards to vote on the “significant policy issue” that is Net Neutrality, despite the FCC’s lack of legal cover to even make it an official policy.  The DC Circuit Court unanimously ruled that the FCC didn’t have the [...]

Guest-Hosting Backbone Radio this Sunday, February 19

by Joshua Sharf | 12:39 pm, February 15, 2012

On this Sunday’s action-packed edition of Backbone Radio, we’ll be hearing from David Goldman, who blogs pseudonymously as Spengler at PJMedia and for the Asia Times, on his book  How Civilizations Die,and events in Egypt and Iran as they unfold. Spengler in the Asia Times Failed Egyptian Treasury Auction Recall for the Turkish Model Spengler [...]

This Chart Still Needs a Campaign To Speak For It

by Joshua Sharf | 2:27 pm, February 14, 2012

A few weeks ago, AEI linked to this Wall Street Journal chart: The post was titled, “Romney’s Economic Case In One Chart,” and it should be. But charts don’t speak for themselves; they need to be explained.  In an age where pollsters routinely judge presidential prospects by the responses to the question, “Understands the problems [...]

Dan Santorum?

by Joshua Sharf | 1:46 am, February 14, 2012

Those of us who suffered through 2010′s Colorado Republican gubernatorial campaign travesty should have learned some lessons.   So far, the national presidential nominating process is making me regret that Colorado is a trend-setter. A similar dynamic – discontent with a front-runner, seen as hostile – or at best indifferent – to the Tea Party, [...]

Legislating (Not) By The Numbers

by Joshua Sharf | 11:37 pm, February 12, 2012

Thursday’s discussion of the proposed in-state tuition for children of illegal immigrants in the Jewish Community Relations Council (where I represent the Denver Academy of Torah as a school), provided an object lesson in the difference between government and the real world. This bill differs from prior years’ efforts in that it creates a third [...]

Inverting the State/Civil Society Relationship

by Joshua Sharf | 1:09 am, February 10, 2012

That to compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical. – Thomas Jefferson, Virginia Status for Religious Freedom You can quote Jefferson like scripture.  But this is one of the three acts he had put on his tombstone, so I’d wager [...]

How Not To Manage Rare Earths

by Joshua Sharf | 11:19 pm, January 30, 2012

Rare earths were in the news a lot in 2011.  Right now, it seems as though the news coverage paralleled the bubble in prices, but there’s no reason to be complacent.  The government continues to make mistakes in dealing with these resources, missing opportunities to do it right, and eventually costing not only the taxpayer [...]

Sigh. Romney.

by Joshua Sharf | 2:25 pm, January 25, 2012

Michael Barone, that walking encyclopedia of American political history, has often made the comparison between the development of the Tea Party and the entry of the peaceniks into American political life: Both movements represent a surge in political activity by hundreds of thousands, even millions, of previously uninvolved citizens. Both movements focused on what are [...]

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