With Every Other Problem Solved, Obama Makes Diaper Prices A Priority

(Hat tip: KimR) - When John F. Kennedy was president, he worried about a Missile Gap with the Soviet Union. His party’s successor to the White House, Barack Obama, is worried about — we are not kidding — a Diaper Gap. Read more at Investor's Business Daily Read More......

IBD: President Obama's Growth Gap Hits $1.31 Trillion

Stagnation: With fourth-quarter GDP growth downgraded in the latest government report, President Obama's anemic economy stretches on. If this had been only an average recovery, we'd be $1.31 trillion richer. ✧ Remember all that talk at the beginning of last year about how prosperity was — finally — just around the corner? In February 2013, for example, Reuters reported "signs are emerging that a more robust recovery is around the bend." ✧ The same month, Bloomberg told its readers that "most Fed policymakers expect growth of 2.3% to 3%." ✧ At the start of last year, the Obama administration projected growth in 2013 would be 2.3%. The Blue Chip consensus forecast was slightly higher. ✧ None of those projections was stellar. But with the Bureau of Economic Analysis' sharp downward revision of Q4 growth — from 3.2% to 2.4% — each turned out to be overly optimistic. Actual gross domestic product growth for 2013 came in at a pathetic 1.9%.

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A quick fix for the gender wage gap

Christina Hoff Sommers writes, "If today’s young women want to close the wage gap, they should change their college majors." She shows the ten most and ten least remunerative majors compiled by the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce. Ah! The higher income producing majors are overwhelmingly chosen by... THIS IS A MUST READ: AEI Blog

Are women choosing to make less? According to the Georgetown study, the answer is, yes. So what about the Paycheck Fairness Act? Does Larry Summers deserve an apology for his comment (and subsequent firing) regarding gender differences in the human brain? --bc Read More......

Romney May Be the End of the Line for the Republican Establishment

September 21, 2012: A Commentary by Scott Rasmussen - Mitt Romney's comments about 47 percent of Americans being dependent on government and locked in to vote for President Obama highlight a fundamental reality in American politics today: The gap between the American people and the political class is bigger than the gap between Republicans and Democrats in Washington, D.C. Read more at Rasmussen's Reports...

Added 9/24 - Also read: 'Before the Rooster Crows' at Red State by Eric Erickson Read More......