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Follow-up On The Housing Bill

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In reference to my post on Saturday regarding HR 3221, the “Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008″, I discovered a site where there is a copy of the Congressional Budget Office Cost Estimate for HR 3221. Over the next ten years, according to the estimate, this...

Pay Attention

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Watch this video a moment: [wp_youtube]Ahg6qcgoay4&hl[/wp_youtube] Now, the video is about watching out for bicyclists while you are driving, but there’s a good correlary.  This video demonstrates how easy it is to let someone distract you.  It’s the...

Swamp Stomper Alert: Housing Bill Heads to White House

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Well, it took almost 3 months, but Congress finally passed the bill today, on older version of which was  passed by the House in May, after some considerable back and forth between the Senate and the House.  The bill is HR 3221 (pdf), titled: “Housing and...

Online Rules Of Discourse: Could We?

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About four months ago (I know, I’m a little behind catching up with some general topics), DavidL at BitsBlog shared an item from Edward Wasserman at the Miami Herald.  Wasserman’s thought was that there is a need for rules to constrain course, offensive,...

Earmarks: The Public Cares

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Encouraging news in an opinion piece from the Wall Street Journal by Pat Toomey(former member of the US House and President of the Club for Growth) today.  A recent survey concludes that most voters would favor a congressional candidate that cuts spending over one...
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