Concerns about the economy. Concerns about the world.

2009 seems like it could very easily be worse than 2008. While we may not be able to stop Congress from borrowing us into oblivion or aggressor nations from blasting themselves into the same, we can make sure that we are ready to weather the storm these things may bring about. Even if these things do not happen, it never hurts to be ready for whatever may come. Below are five things you can start doing now. [...]

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Call President Bush what you will, but I will call him one of the most compassionate presidents that has ever lived. Since Lincoln, what president has cared this much for the military members he has sent into harms way?
Dare I say it: compassion is often remembered as a mark of greatness.
-=DLH=-

Do we need any more evidence that the status quo in Washington D.C. is breaking our nation. If you do, how about the fact that your audacious lawmakers just bailed themselves out to the tune of $2.4 million more of our tax dollars in the form of a “cost-of-living” raise? [...]

When Pat Buchanan dares to write a column on RealClearPolitics suggesting that abandoning Afghanistan might be part of the solution for winning the broader war brought to our shores on 9-11, then I am sure that our nation has forgotten the lessons we should have learned in permanence on that terrible day. [...]

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The US economy does not need any more regulation. We have plenty of laws, and at least some of those laws serve to protect us against people doing things wrong. That is, they protect us from people doing things wrong when they are applied.

It turns out that regulators at the SEC systematically ignored the fraud being perpetrated by Bernard Madoff for at least a decade, thereby failing to perform their role of enforcing the laws the US already has to prevent the very kind of scheme he was operating. In doing so, they not only cost Madoff’s investors more than he had already cost them, but they compromised the integrity of the very agency tasked with regulating activity on US stock markets. [...]