Chi Trib’s Steve Chapman thinks this guy has it right:
Hoover Institution economist John Cochrane thinks [economic growth] is of paramount importance. “Once you start thinking about growth,” he says, “you have trouble thinking about anything else.”
Chapman is right. There seems to be not a problem that growth doesn’t solve or greatly lessen.
The German Catholic Church called for a reduction in the influx of refugees arriving in Germany, saying the country cannot take in “all the world’s needy,” according to an interview published Saturday.
Germany has been struggling to cope with 1.1 million asylum seekers that arrived in 2015 and Berlin has not yet given an official estimate for how many it expects this year.
“As a church we say that we need a reduction in the number of refugees,” Cardinal Reinhard Marx, chairman of the German Bishops’ Conference, told the Passauer Neue Presse daily.
Germany cannot “take in all the world’s needy,” Marx added.
The question of how to respond to the migrant crisis, he asserted, should not solely be a matter of “charity but also reason.”
Not cleared with the Pope, we presume.
Because the DC Media believe it is a powerful weapon that benefits Democrats, nothing will ever stop them from using it.
But if this same media truly believed in science and objectivity, the results in Iowa would forever end their relentless smears against conservatives as racists.
Tuesday night, one of the whitest and most conservative states in the country — Iowa — gave 60% of the Republican vote to two Hispanics and a black man.
This beats any of Obama’s miracles.
Not your doctor’s, which is generally as opaque as things come, but a congressional bill.
Thing is, you’re not alone if you can’t remember.
Goes for many a congress-person too.
The bills are TOO DAMN COMPLICATED.
But one congress-person wants to SIMPLIFY things. Read about her here.
DES MOINES, Iowa—Like a previously undiscovered earthquake fault, Donald Trump’s presidential campaign is threatening to fracture the Republican electoral coalition along new lines. In the process he could disrupt both the demographic and geographic alignments that have defined previous races for the GOP nomination—and scramble the assumptions of his rivals about the coalitions they believed could power them to victory.
Out with the old, in with the what?
He has replaced those old divisions [based on ideology and religious affiliation] with a new division that centers on education, building an advantage among working-class Republicans large enough to lead in virtually all surveys both nationally and in the critical early states.
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Blithe Spirit 