Archive for March 19th, 2012

Shared with me via a Facebook friend. This really puts all the Leftist hand-wringing about voter ID laws into perspective, doesn’t it?

A new analysis from the Daily Beast finds that Mitt Romney has the worst favorability ratings among potential voters of any likely presidential nominee in the past 36 years. And Mitt “RomneyCare” Romney is the man the RINO establishment in the GOP has been insisting is “the only one who can beat Obama.”

Rush Limbaugh treated Miss Fluke as a worthy adversary. She stepped into the political ring to rumble; she decided – as the seasoned pro-abortion feminist activist that she is – to become the “poster pin-up” of “free love.” She decided – of her own free will – that she would become the lightning rod for all the poor little girls who want to “sleep around,” and have the rest of us pay for their birth control and abortifacients. Rush treated her as a worthy opponent, and responded to her with rhetoric equal to the battle.

Modeling investment returns seeks to find an equation to predict your expected returns as much as possible. The one-factor model, called the capital asset pricing model (CAPM), was developed in the early 1960s. William Sharpe, Harry Markowitz and Merton Miller won the Nobel Prize in economics for this work. CAPM adds a single factor to the equation: risk as measured by standard deviation.

Nineteen years after Spain won a major naval victory over the Muslim Ottoman navy at the Battle of Lepanto, and two years after England won a major naval victory over Spain’s Armada, a boy was born in England on MARCH 19, 1590. His name was William Bradford. In 1621, William Bradford was chosen governor of Plymouth and was reelected 30 times till his death.

This past Wednesday, I sent my twenty-year-old son to war. As a father I am filled with a multitude of emotions. On the one hand I am incredibly proud of the young man my son has become—a man committed to duty, honor, and country—but on the other I fear for his safety.

The U.S. Senate has approved of a $109 billion bill that provides two years of funding for transportation and transit projects around the country. Included in that is $1.4 billion in funding for the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF), which helps purchase and lock off land across the country. Evidently the line of thinking within the Senate is more U.S. lands are in need of being purchased and protected by the federal government.

In this video, Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, the man who has led the fight among the 27 states that have sued the federal government to protect their people against ObamaCare, discusses how some of the Supreme Court justices may be expected to rule on this case, and the elements of the case in general. He also discusses the upcoming election and what’s at stake, as well as the contraceptive mandate.