by Terrance Heath | Dec 2, 2010 | Blog
Let's face it. Nothing about the economic crisis is funny. Nothing about America's 9% unemployment rate, 14.8 million unemployed, or 6.2 million long-term employed is funny. And there's nothing mildly amusing about the 2 million Americans whose unemployment benefits...
by Terrance Heath | Dec 1, 2010 | Blog, Economy, Making it in America
"America has spoken." It's a phrase we've heard from the right after every election — special election, run-off or midterm — following the 2008 election in which voters sent Barack Obama to the White House and Democratic majorities to both houses...
by Terrance Heath | Nov 30, 2010 | Blog, Minimum Wage
It hasn't even been a year since the Heritage Foundation placed Ireland among the top ten countries on its Economic Freedom Index. I wasn't intending to write about Ireland at the time, but any time the Heritage Foundation holds up any country as an economic example...
by Terrance Heath | Nov 19, 2010 | Blog
A couple of years ago I started writing about something I called "Drop Dead Conservatism," and attempted to define it: High on delusion, denial, and derision, it's the face of a conservatism unequipped to recognize — let alone meet — the challenges America...
by Terrance Heath | Nov 19, 2010 | Blog
A while back I attempted to define "Drop Dead Conservatism." High on delusion, denial, and derision, it’s the face of a conservatism unequipped to recognize — let alone meet — the challenges America and the world now face, and blind to the possibility drowning itself...
