Entries from Searchlight Crusade tagged with 'US Budget'

Good Intentions and Over-Extended Homeowners

(I do use one piece of non G-rated language below. I hope you'll agree with me that it was necessary to convey the proper sentiment) USA Today had an oped, "3 ways to help borrowers without bailing them out" Their...

The United States is Facing Imminent Financial Failure

It has become clear to me in the past few weeks that the United States is facing imminent financial failure. I have known since at least the early 80s that if something were not done, the bill would come due...

Links and Minifeatures 10 04 Thursday

The Mom Song I advise you not to forward it to any replicants. ********** The Democrats have accused Rush Limbaugh of being against the troops and want to remove his show from Armed Services Radio. Powerline has some sauce...

Good Intentions and Over-Extended Homeowners

(I do use one piece of non G-rated language below. I hope you'll agree with me that it was necessary to convey the proper sentiment) USA Today had an oped, "3 ways to help borrowers without bailing them out" Their...

Links and Minifeatures 08 04 Saturday

July set another new traffic record at 149,342 visits, for a running total of 1,960,932 visits. At this pace, the two millionth visit should hit sometime in the second week of August. 17 months for the first million, not quite...

Links and Minifeatures 06 12 Tuesday

One of my clients would like me to link to her site so for those of you who might like to see work in progress, here's her most recent post, showing the condo torn apart. 2 bedroom 2 (full) bath...

Links and Minifeatures 07 18 Tuesday

Isn't this rich? Carter blames 1980 loss on Walter Cronkite "Updated opinion polls right before the election took place showed that we had slipped," Carter told Shirley. "And it was primarily because Walter Cronkite and everybody else was talking about...

Links and Minifeatures 06 16 Friday

For those who follow politics, a parody. Ms American Spy ********** House rejects Iraq pullout deadline 1. Murtha is not a hawk, but the left wing calls him one because they think it makes him look more credible 2. 153...

The Proposed Tax Credit for Homeownership

There has been a recent proposal for a 15% interest credit for homeowners rather than a deduction of all of the mortgage interest. Now a credit is a direct allowance off of taxes you owe, but it doesn't effect any...

Links and Minifeatures 05 04 Thursday

If you're looking for my article on "Southern California Real Estate and Loan Market Outlook" the link is here. For some reason it's not displaying on the main page, and I can't access it myself at the moment to...

Links and Minifeatures 02 15 Wednesday

Carnival of Liberty. Recommended: oxford University Press Blog, Combs Spouts Off ********** I've had a chance to fool with zillow.com a bit now. More than once person I've read in the last few days was disturbed by how much they...

Links and Minifeatures 02 09 Thursday

Carnival of the Vanities is up. ********** Social Security Choice writes some more about a great article he found at Students for Saving Social Security. The train wreck is coming, and for anybody sixty and below (at least), you can...

Amending the Budget Process

Over at Q and O they've got a good anti-pork proposal - that of unbundling, mandatory separation of each line item on the budget from every other. Conjectures and Refutations has a good games theory treatment of one side....

Links and Minifeatures 12 16 Friday

Camp Katrina wrote to tell us to compare and contrast the treatment the media gives conservatives with a given problem, with the treatment they give liberals with the exact same problem. In other words: Oh. That liberal media bias. **********...

Links and Minifeatures 11 29 Tuesday

This is, alas, par for the course: FAA calls for mediator in talks with air traffic controllers. FAA management is a sick, corrupt culture, and they have monopoly power over controllers. There are no other significant jobs in Air Traffic....

Links and Minifeatures 10 17 Monday

Iraq the Model has various items on the Iraqi election. From what I can see of his coverage, turnout was perhaps not as high as expected. (later)Captain's Quarters seems to have had concrete results and good interpretations first. There is...