Collecting My Thoughts

The cost for hope and change--women and minorities hit hardest “President Bush ran budget deficits averaging $300 billion annually. After ha...

Will Congress stop the mob mentality and accept the blame? Little in our congressional history can match the ridiculous behavior of this pas...

What has happened to your nest egg?

Millions in bonuses for Fannie Mae Execs "Say it ain’t so. But looks like it is. Here we are, clutching our devastated 401Ks, howling f...

Obama's triumph? "Last week, President Obama removed virtually all restrictions on fetal stem cell research, claiming a triumph of ...

Health Disparities in the U.S. This is certainly puzzling. The March 18 issue of JAMA has an article on health care in the U.S. that reports...

Congress runs amock and violates the Constitution Special tax on AIG bonuses after Treasury and Fed agreed to the contracts for the bonuses...

The face of greed in the suburbs "With billions of stimulus dollars making their way down through federal, state and local levels, Uppe...

If you're interested in a Holy Land Cruise Here's one sponsored by Catholic Heritage Tours that sounds exactly like ours, although ...

Unintended consequences of having too much Not money, but information. ". . .we have found that no matter where students are enrolled, ...

Lobbying activity increases under Obama Wow. Now that's change you can count. And mighty fast, too. It's only been 2 months! ...

If Congress would stop acting pious maybe I could get my trip log finished. Today WSJ confirmed the "outrageous" bonuses that memb...

Campaign contributions by AIG I haven't checked the sources, but noticed this on Newsmax about other "bonuses" received by pol...

If you’re headed for a cliff you’ve got to change direction says our President. "Our public policy definitely needs a change in direct...

Maybe the problem is Geithner? “Obama said that Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is trying to resolve the matter with AIG's CEO, Edwa...

Buyer's Remorse Sorry, Mr. President and Mr. Frank . You agreed to this deal. You just had to bail out AIG, and you did so knowing abo...

Is it time to kill off Fannie and Fred? Here’s a list , in reverse order, of WSJ articles on the poorly run Fannie Mae--back to February 200...

President Teleprompter "After only a few short weeks, the use of the Obama teleprompter is beginning to expose Obama's incapacity t...

Live blogging Liddy’s testimony Obama spends trillions, frets about millions, and defends Geithner‘s duplicity in passing him the buck. ...

Just having fun--miscellaneous photos Being an architect, my husband takes mainly photographs of buildings--over 700 this trip. A few slip-...