by Reena Kapoor
Meanwhile, at the uber-expensive Sidwell Friends Private Independent School in Washington, D.C. . .
by Reena Kapoor
The word "rights" is bandied about a little too easily in our culture; learn from Richard Epstein, one of the preeminent legal minds in Sunstein's Second Bill Of Rights? why such a culture of entitlement is not sustainable... I guess the good news about Socialism is that eventually it self-destructs. The problem is it destroys the souls and lives of millions in this long slow grind.
by Reena Kapoor
Read this to understand what's going on in America today, why Republicans have created such a political morass and why we might thank actually Obama some day, unless of course he morphs into a dictator which he truly is on a path to becoming: Obama's Atomic Bomb
by Reena Kapoor
Camille Paglia at her best - a self proclaimed leftist - she does not let either side off the hook in this insightful article Too Late for Obama?. While I don't agree with everything she says, her article is a must read for both sides. And she has that fierce libertarian streak one can only admire. Are libertarians natural born?
by Rakinder Grover
In today's WSJ, Daniel Henninger writes that electorates around the world are casting no-confidence votes against incumbent politicians and bureaucrats. While I personally am not ready to call this a sustainable trend, it's something to keep an eye on - "green shoots"? An excerpt:
Some search for an ideological trend toward the left or right in these votes, but the only evident trend is to strike out at whichever blob is currently in power. Even as Americans turned over their country to liberal Democrats, opinion polls showed that the British people were turning toward the Conservatives for relief from listless Labour.
What accounts for the global electorate's growing disgust with the political overclass? Try this: No matter the ideological cast of these governments, they all hold in common one policy: the inexorable upward march of national indebtedness. It has arrived at the edge of the cliff.
by Reena Kapoor
Meanwhile, at the uber-expensive Sidwell Friends Private Independent School in Washington, D.C. . .
by Reena Kapoor
All we can do is laugh: Cash for Clunkers Q&A
by Reena Kapoor
An interesting report "Losing the world's best & brightest" by Duke University Professor Vivek Wadhwa and team. Telling trend especially in light of the march of the lemmings into communism without demur or protest. Apparently many potential immigrants are concluding the difference in economic benefits - a by product of freedom - are not sufficient anymore, anyway. Might as well be closer to friends and family. I hope people will start listening before US innovation, entrepreneurial spirit and Silicon Valley all become a sad memory.
by Rakinder Grover
by Reena Kapoor
Every few months I get really mad at some piece of news I read. This is one of them: Fraud by Trial Lawyers Taints Wave of Pesticide Lawsuits. And why are we surprised that trial lawyers committed fraud to win these lawsuits? See how media reports these cases, and how most people assume that companies are guilty --- before they even hear of a shred of evidence --- and you won't be so surprised. Note that, SIMILAR FRAUD WAS COMMITTED IN THE ASBESTOS LAWSUITS. And how DOW (the company) was tried, judged and ruined over breast implants without evidence. The rewards for wining are ridiculously huge, the biased media and sheep-like public are only too happy to declare companies guilty without evidence and the rule of law just a nice memory. So why not try you luck by suing someone? All you have to do is find a trial lawyer and sue away!!
by Reena Kapoor
The Panel in the WSJ today sent chills down my spine. If you've ever lived in a socialist or communist state and if any important decision of your life was ever in the hands of a bureaucrat - or if you saw the film "Lives of Others" - you will read this and remember that awful feeling. Coming soon to a life near you!