September 21, 2009

Article Digest

Posted in Economy, Reviews tagged , , , at 1:21 pm by Arlanjio

The Article

Howard Husock. “Project Phaseout.” City Journal. 20 September 2009. <http://www.city-journal.org/2009/nytom_project-phaseout.html>.

The Digest

Apparently, low initial estimates and out-of-control cost is not  confined to health care [1], but also in other areas various governments touch. This City Journal article, for example, high-lights New York’s public housing projects. The projects were also initially estimated to be self-sufficient, which did not prevent them from being a massive drain on public money year after year.

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August 31, 2009

Article Digest

Posted in Politics, Reviews tagged , , at 12:33 am by Arlanjio

The Article

Larry P. Arnn. “A Work of Recovery.” Imprimis 37.12 (December 2008).

The Digest

The Imprimis article written by the President of Hillsdale College is incredibly insightful, with insight built upon those of James Madison and other giants of American history. One thing that stands out the most is the inevitability of human nature.

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August 12, 2009

Articles on the Web

Posted in Economy tagged , , , at 11:52 am by Arlanjio

“How End-Users Suffer Under Socialism.” Investor’s Business Daily. August 11, 2009. <http://ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=334882669428387>.

Economic Systems: If you ever wonder why we so resist socialism, consider the latest news out of that collectivist island paradise known as Cuba.

Central planners announced this week that they were fresh out of money to buy toilet paper — yes, toilet paper — for the island’s 9 million citizens. But not to worry. A nameless official for state-run monopoly Cimex and quoted by Reuters assured that “the corporation has taken all the steps so that at the end of the year there will be an important importation of toilet paper.”

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August 6, 2009

Where Do Hypocrites in America Live?

Posted in Politics tagged , , , , , , at 4:16 pm by Arlanjio

Other than in Tennessee, where the Hypocrite-in-Chief Al Gore, who preaches carbon dioxide reduction but lives in a mansion that consumes 20 times the average American household energy and flies around in private jets to deliver his anti-emission sermons [1,2,3], the biggest hypocrites undoubtedly reside in Washington, D. C.

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July 22, 2009

Why Should Christians Oppose ObamaCare?

Posted in Healthcare tagged , , , , , at 12:25 am by Arlanjio

The following is an e-mail I wrote in response to a couple of questions sent to me via a mailing list:  Why should Christians oppose to Obama’s health care proposal?  What would Jesus say about helping the poor, the sick and the needy?

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