March 31, 2009
Written by: Dick Hanneman
Yesterday's Politico had an interesting article suggesting "A lesson for Obama from the other Roosevelt." Bush White House aide Daniel M. Price extracted a quote of Theodore Roosevelt from historian Edmund Morris' TR biography, Theodore Rex. Roosevelt responded to a journalist...
March 28, 2009
Written by: Dick Hanneman
The media opines that the Obama Administration's stimulus and bailout packages are reminiscent of the New Deal. Another oft-ignored parallel to that bygone era and its big government response to global economic crisis springs to mind, prompted by a couple...
March 13, 2009
Written by: Morton Satin
Newspapers and websites around the country are reporting a story coming out of the American Heart Association's Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention annual conference in Palm Harbor, Florida yesterday. Medical researcher Dr. Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, an assistant professor of medicine and...
March 2, 2009
Written by: Dick Hanneman
Bruce Watson writing in DailyFinance.com asks this highly-pertinent question as snowfalls forced cancelations and postponements throughout the Washington metro area and beyond. Watson's quest: to measure "the overall economic cost of a few inches of snow." Watson reports: (A) month ago,...
March 2, 2009
Written by: Morton Satin
Two tough winters, back-to-back, may yet yield a silver lining. The difficulty in gaining access to sufficient quantities of salt has spurred many communities to invest in larger and better salt storage facilities. This will have a stabilizing effect on...
March 1, 2009
Written by: Morton Satin
Sanitary and phytosanitary measures are applied to protect human or animal life from risks arising from additives, contaminants, toxins or pathogenic organisms in their food. The World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS) restricts the use...
