Main Street
The ‘Wall Street/Main Street’ Bug: Curing Symptoms of Synecdoche
Everyone uses synecdoche, even if no student can tell you what it is. We say “Washington,” for instance, to loosely refer to the U.S. government and expect everyone to understand. No one parses the gaps between those supposedly comprised by the image (e.g., every... [Read more...]
Breaking News
Hockey moms and capital markets
From AsiaTimes Oct 7, 2008 Hockey moms and capital markets By Spengler Why do Asian investors depend on American capital markets? Given the near breakdown of key sectors of the American market, one might expect Asians to bring their money home. Quite the opposite has happened:... [Read more...]
Guest Blogger
Life is not a defined benefit
The nanny state violates, rather than protects, our rights. Monday, November 05, 2007 by Star Parker See all articles by this author The U.S Comptroller General and head of the GAO, Government Accountability Office, has described the entitlements crisis facing this country as... [Read more...]
General Interest
Defining the political and cultural “mainstream”
In “Moment of Truth” (Front Line: 241 pages with references and index, $21.99), Marc Nuttle formulates an intriguing and highly useful “matrix” that can help Americans self-identify where they fall on the political spectrum between Nancy Pelosi (whom he rates a 1 for... [Read more...]
News
Family Policy Council
Oklahoma Family Policy Council’s Annual First Things Banquet is coming soon on October 2, 2008. Rick Green, of WallBuilders, will be the keynote speaker. Rick is the close friend and colleague of WallBuilder’s founder, David Barton. For more information send an e-mail to info@okfamilypc.org.
American Values
The Death of Traditional American Values is Greatly Exaggerated
“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.”
Sir Winston Churchill
British politician (1874 - 1965) [Read more...]
Taxes
ENPR: Special Republican Convention Recap
by Timothy P. Carney
Outlook
1. Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has utterly changed the political landscape and revitalized the Republican Party. The presidential contest is not the race it was two weeks ago. It is now a serious fight for the “reform” mantle, and—in a return to 2002 and 2004—another battle in the now-revived culture war.
2. Expect Sen. John McCain to surge ahead of Sen. Barack Obama in the polls over the weekend. The presidential contest could be crushing for the Obama campaign, especially in the wake of their superb convention last week in Denver. [Read more...]
General News
The ‘Wall Street/Main Street’ Bug: Curing Symptoms of Synecdoche
Everyone uses synecdoche, even if no student can tell you what it is.
We say “Washington,” for instance, to loosely refer to the U.S. government and expect everyone to understand. No one parses the gaps between those supposedly comprised by the image (e.g., every executive-branch official who works in Washington, with the possible exception of Dick Cheney), and those perhaps falsely implicated (other U.S. government officials, such as members of Congress who oppose the president’s policies). [Read more...]
American Objective is is the country’s leading catalyst for cutting-edge information and a network for action to aggressively reassert the conservative values that made America’s social and economic foundations second to none American Objective is a subsidiary organization of The Private Enterprise Foundation, a 501(c) 4 not-for-profit, private organization.