Unca Darrell

DECEMBER 17 / Five easy pieces: Krauthammer's jobs program

From Special Report by way of the Corner:

Well, [the president's jobs summit] is obviously a PR maneuver. Unemployment is high. People showed [concern] on Election Day in November that the administration and Congress are spending all their time on health care, which is not a high priority. High priority is the economy.

DECEMBER 16 / "If I can write its textbooks"

WITH HIS FAMOUS textbook, the brilliant Paul Samuelson helped create something that did not exist before him: mass literacy in economics. But it's too bad that . . .

DECEMBER 9 / Speaking of "debt bias" . . .

. . . the Chronicle should try looking in the mirror.

DECEMBER 7 / More whoppers from Chronicle editorial writers

THESE assertions from an editorial in Sunday's Chronicle are exaggerations and untruths:

DECEMBER 1 / The moocher ratio

FORBES offers a table that measures the ratio of state and local government employees and Medicaid recipients in each state against private sector employment -- a "moocher ratio." Texas ranks . . .

DECEMBER 1 / Nutty fiscal policy

Treasury officials now face a trifecta of headaches: 

NOVEMBER 27 / Obamacare scares sensible libs too

THE HOUSE bill would take America a giant step closer to [the goal of providing universal access to doctors, to medicine, to preventive services].

Here is the dilemma:

NOVEMBER 23 / Unca D does not offer investment advice, but . . .

. . . I RECENTLY put some hard-earned retirement dollars into . . .

NOVEMBER 20 / Why your kids will be less prosperous than you

BY 2030, the United States will be transferring seven percent of its entire annual output to the rest of the world. . . .

NOVEMBER 12 / New kid on the block

CHECK OUT Houston Tea Party Patriots. Its core beliefs: