Buy used and use cash

Back in November 2006 we wrote How much of your car should you finance? Zero percent. Back then, a month after we released our forecast of a recession due to start at the end of Q4 2007, the housing bubble fueled economy was only just starting to wind down, and the mainstream press was still in denial about the coming post housing bubble bust. Now that the recession has arrived our advice to buy a car with cash instead of financing is getting a whole lot easier to follow – if you also took our advice and saved cash, too.
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By CAROL SANDLER

When we longed for the coming of what we once liked to call the New Man, don’t you sometimes think we should have been more careful what we wished for?

Back then, we thought we knew what we wanted. Moreover, what we thought we wanted didn’t sound unreasonable.

Put-upon women - run ragged by Neanderthal demands that we perform in the office, kitchen and bedroom - believed that if our partners could just be kicked up the backside of their latent sensitivity, they’d graduate from cavemen to soul-mates, and our lives would be that much easier for it.

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by Linda Schrock Taylor

On my recent flight home from Florida, I sat next to a very interesting and articulate gentleman. We talked nonstop, only pausing for shallow breaths, as we discussed the flaws and faults of public schooling. As many may well imagine, once that topic is opened – time stops for me. I explained the “jobs project” infrastructure of our schooling fiasco, as well as the deceptive “educational” decor of the buildings – designs that rise, just like the false fronts that topped buildings in old Western towns, providing cover for evil-doers, both then and now.

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Fortune magazine has compiled a list of 9 “forbidden’ foods that have been banned (for some reason or another) in the US. Trans fats in NYC, foie gras in Chicago… Here’s the list:

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by Llewellyn Rockwell, Jr.

Christopher Ratte, professor in the department of classics at the University of Michigan, was recently turned into a jailbird and had his son taken away from him, all in the name of protecting the child from the father. He had taken his 7-year-old son to a baseball game in Detroit and ordered him lemonade. What was served up was a “Mike’s Hard Lemonade,” which his son prepared to drink. Suddenly security arrived.

“You know this is an alcoholic beverage?” the security guard asked.

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By DANNY PENMAN

The last time I ‘died’ was in Jerusalem in 1276. Pope Gregory X’s Crusade against Islam had collapsed and the city’s Christians would soon be abandoned to their fate.

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