Headlines: October 20, 2008

British female aid worker shot dead in Kabul

DEMS GET SET TO MUZZLE THE RIGHT

Obama's Millions in Illegal Foreign Donations

Obama's Brave New Deal

Willful Blindness

ANC calls for rethink on land redistribution

The Hazards of Speaking on a College Campus

AP IMPACT: Mortgage firm arranged stealth campaign

David Gratzer: A Prescription for SiCKOMichael Moore’s sloppy approach to the health-care debate.

Thirty years of warmer temperatures go poof

"For nearly 30 years, Professor Christy has been in charge of NASA's eight weather satellites that take more than 300,000 temperature readings daily around the globe. In a paper co-written with Dr. Douglass, he concludes that while manmade emissions may be having a slight impact, 'variations in global temperatures since 1978 ... cannot be attributed to carbon dioxide.'"

Blow to image of ‘green’ reusable nappy

John Witherspoon: THE DOMINION OF PROVIDENCE OVER THE PASSIONS OF MEN

"How often has a just cause been reduced to the lowest ebb, and yet when firmly adhered to, has become finally triumphant."

Claremont: The Audacity of Barack Obama

Universal preschool hasn't delivered results

"Much of the income-tax cut Obama is promising to give to 95% of Americans is not a tax cut at all, but a federal transfer in the form of a check from the U.S. Treasury to families not paying any federal income tax."

Headlines: October 15, 2008

CIA Tactics Endorsed In Secret Memos: Waterboarding Got White House Nod

What is Debt Monetization?

Who Do We Owe and How Much?

Spurious Jefferson quotations

Oil price slides below $72 to 13-month low

"Steve and Rachel Larman say a strange credit card charge appeared on their statement this month -- a $2300 donation to Barack Obama's presidential campaign."

Obama: "My attitude is that if the economy's good for folks from the bottom up, it's gonna be good for everybody. I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody."

Ludwig von Mises: "It is an illusion to expect that despotism will always side with the good causes."

Henry Hazlitt on the Bailout

Economics 101: Crisis of Confidence

Bailout v. Workout -- The continuing crisis

Commentary on the Financial Crisis (Updated Regularly)

Uncle Sam, Inc.: Postcards from the moral-hazard highway.

Number of Embedded Reporters in Iraq Falls to All-Time Low Since Start of Surge

California polls shock gay marriage supporters

California may seek $7bn emergency loan

Retail sales plunge 1.2 percent in September

Tyler case opened schools to illegal migrants

Headlines: October 8, 2008

Fed to Lend Directly to Companies for First Time Since Great Depression, Hints at a Rate Cut; Stocks Fall as Dow Hits 5-Year Low

British government will partially nationalize banks

From Syrian fishing port to naval power base: Russia moves into the Mediterranean

The Obama Debate Every American Should See

Pakistan expels 60 000

Who Is Buying The White House?

McCain Pledges Government Will Buy Up Mortgages

Security: Buried in last week's news, the CIA director warned that the next president's top national security problem is the Axis of Oil. With campaigns focused on wars all but won, will our next leader be ready?

Rosner: Call it "evil" or "not evil" or "maybe" evil--Russia, slowly but surely, is becoming the number one headache for the next president.

Fed orders emergency rate cut to 1.5 percent

Yon: The Afghanistan paradox

Take our Uighurs -- please

IRAN: CHRISTIAN COUPLE DIES FROM POLICE ATTACK
Hosts of house church succumb to injuries following raid; daughter still in custody.

The bigger the family the better, says Cassandra Jardine

Another Child Matters: Bridging the middle-class baby gap