Man Should Be Free to Love the Earth
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on April 19th, 2010 4:32 am by HL
Man Should Be Free to Love the Earth
Mark Landsbaum, OC Register
I'm an environmentalist. I love trees, having squeezed nearly two-dozen evergreens and deciduous onto our normal-size, suburban tract-house lot. My bride and I are rarely happier than when digging in dirt to plant another truckload of flowers and shrubs.Camphors and clinging rose vines are among God's most glorious creations. I flinch at the site of strip-mined hillsides, and can't get enough of wild, yellow mustard flowers that carpet Southern California's rolling hills after spring rains.
For an Activist President, Court Emerges as Obstacle
Peter Baker, NYT
WASHINGTON — They are two of the smartest men of their generation, both magna cum laude products of Harvard Law School, both cerebral and charming and ambitious. They vaulted to the highest offices in the land after just short stints at the next level down, and each was seen initially as a conciliator only to lead on the strength of his own majority.Many years after their campus days in Cambridge, Mass., President Obama and Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. have emerged as the intellectual gladiators in a great struggle over the role of government in American society. In this moment…
How Big a Government Do We Want?
Robert Samuelson, Newsweek
“There is always an easy solution to every human problem — neat, plausible and wrong.”– H.L. Mencken Receive news alertsThe value-added tax has become the designated panacea for massive federal budget deficits. It's touted by think-tank economists and mentioned by congressional leaders. A VAT could, it's said, raise stupendous amounts of money, which, Lord knows, are needed to cover projected deficits. A VAT is likened to a “national sales tax,” so once in place, most Americans would barely notice it — just as they barely notice state and local sales taxes….
Real Reform Must End Too Big to Fail
Thomas Hoenig, New York Times
LAST week, I visited Santa Fe, N.M., and spoke to one of America’s many Main Streets: more than 300 small-business owners, real estate developers, artists, bankers and other citizens. A good number of them, experiencing the fallout of the financial crisis and feeling the stress it put on New Mexico’s banks, were angry and frustrated.You see, New Mexico’s financial institutions were not too big to fail. They were never invited to meetings and told to accept financing from the Troubled Asset Relief Program. As a result, banks and residents of Santa Fe, like those…
