A collection of both my own opinions and the opinions of other conservative minds, with information gathered from my own websites (kivus.com & kivus.vox.com), Real Clear Politics and Victor Davis Hanson’s own blog.contact: kivus@reaganacoltye.comTumblr (3.0; @reaganacolyte)http://reaganacolyte.com/<a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/10/obamas_character_still_questio.html">Obama & Friends: Judge Not?</a>: McCain has only himself to blame for the bad timing. He should months ago have begun challenging Obama’s associations, before the economic meltdown allowed the Obama campaign (and the mainstream…http://reaganacolyte.com/post/53886539http://reaganacolyte.com/post/53886539Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:09:27 -0400<a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/10/wall_street_101.html">Wall Street 101</a>: There is plenty of blame to go around. Greedy Wall Street speculators took mega-bonuses even when they knew their leveraged companies were tottering — and someone else would pick up the tab….http://reaganacolyte.com/post/53732523http://reaganacolyte.com/post/53732523Thu, 09 Oct 2008 01:25:17 -0400<a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/10/a_landslide_coming.html">McCain in a Bear Market</a>: This, McCain and his female Sancho Panza say, is demonstrated by bad associations Obama had in Chicago, such as with William Ayers, the unrepentant terrorist. But the McCain-Palin charges have come…http://reaganacolyte.com/post/53726906http://reaganacolyte.com/post/53726906Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:27:50 -0400<a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/10/the_real_obama.html">The Real Obama</a>: Jeremiah Wright, Father Michael Pfleger, William Ayers and Antoin Rezko are not just people who happened to be at the same place at the same time as Barack Obama. They are people with whom he chose…http://reaganacolyte.com/post/53394893http://reaganacolyte.com/post/53394893Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:03:52 -0400<a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/10/the_real_obama_part_iv.html">The Real Obama: Part IV</a>: <p> Yet Senator Obama not only voted in favor of the bridge to nowhere, he voted against anti-earmark amendments proposed by Senator John McCain.</p> <p> Obama has had more than two dozen of his own earmarks…</p>http://reaganacolyte.com/post/53394894http://reaganacolyte.com/post/53394894Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:03:52 -0400<a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/10/the_real_obama_part_iii.html">The Real Obama: Part III</a>: <p> The education situation in Obama’s home base of Chicago is one of the worst in the nation for the children— and one of the best for the unionized teachers.</p> <p> Fewer than one-third of Chicago’s…</p>http://reaganacolyte.com/post/53394895http://reaganacolyte.com/post/53394895Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:03:52 -0400<a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/10/the_real_obama_part_ii.html">The Real Obama: Part II</a>: <p> Does it matter if Barack Obama is for sex education in kindergarten? It matters more than most things that are called “the real issues.”</p> <p> Seemingly unrelated things can give important insights…</p>http://reaganacolyte.com/post/53394892http://reaganacolyte.com/post/53394892Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:03:51 -0400<a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/10/the_rough_riders_collectiv.html">The Rough Rider's Collectivism</a>: He was an individualist who considered the individualism of others an impediment to the social unity required for national greatness. Having read Darwin’s “The Origin of Species” at age 14, and…http://reaganacolyte.com/post/53155845http://reaganacolyte.com/post/53155845Sun, 05 Oct 2008 08:45:13 -0400<a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/10/do_facts_matter.html">Do Facts Matter?</a>: The current financial bailout crisis has propelled Barack Obama back into a substantial lead over John McCain— which is astonishing in view of which man and which party has had the most to do with…http://reaganacolyte.com/post/53028512http://reaganacolyte.com/post/53028512Sat, 04 Oct 2008 06:42:56 -0400<a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/10/obama_passing_the_reagan_thres.html">Obama Passing the Reagan Threshold</a>: <p> When the financial crisis hit, McCain went razzle-dazzle again, suspending his campaign and declaring he’d stay away from the first presidential debate until the financial crisis was solved. </p> <p> He…</p>http://reaganacolyte.com/post/52844499http://reaganacolyte.com/post/52844499Thu, 02 Oct 2008 22:56:56 -0400<a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/10/americas_nervous_breakdown_and.html">America's Nervous Breakdown - and the World's</a>: Even though the U.S. government rushed to restore trust, hundreds of billions of dollars in paper assets simply vanished. Friends and enemies abroad were unsure whether the irregular American…http://reaganacolyte.com/post/52695961http://reaganacolyte.com/post/52695961Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:07:38 -0400<a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/10/publics_fury_noted_now_is_time.html">Public's Fury Noted, Now Is Time for Financial Rescue</a>: Beneath Americans’ perfunctory disapproval of government deficits lurks an inconvenient truth: They enjoy deficits, by which they are charged less than a dollar for a dollar’s worth of government….http://reaganacolyte.com/post/52533940http://reaganacolyte.com/post/52533940Tue, 30 Sep 2008 23:30:07 -0400<a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/09/pennywise_politics.html">Penny-wise Politics</a>: But however insignificant the pay of CEOs is economically, it is big stuff politically. Whatever the shortcomings of the Democrats, they are consistent in their message, and class envy is a great…http://reaganacolyte.com/post/52376366http://reaganacolyte.com/post/52376366Mon, 29 Sep 2008 23:29:47 -0400<a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/09/bailout_politics.html">Bailout Politics</a>: <p> Moreover, he said that the federal government has “probably done too little rather than too much to push them to meet the goals of affordable housing.”</p> <p> Earlier this year, Senator Christopher Dodd…</p>http://reaganacolyte.com/post/52376367http://reaganacolyte.com/post/52376367Mon, 29 Sep 2008 23:29:47 -0400<a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/09/do_anything_it_takes_to_put_th.html">Catharsis, Then Common Sense</a>: Some disdain that assessment as hypothetical. Paulson and Bernanke, who actually peered into the abyss on Black Thursday (Sept. 18), think otherwise. They’re not infallible, but prudence dictates…http://reaganacolyte.com/post/51805964http://reaganacolyte.com/post/51805964Thu, 25 Sep 2008 23:29:59 -0400<a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/09/dr_frankensteins_wall_street.html">Dr. Frankenstein's Wall Street</a>: All that remains of this Ponzi scheme is the election-year blame game. Republicans charge that important financial firewalls were dismantled by the Clinton administration while insider liberal…http://reaganacolyte.com/post/51642351http://reaganacolyte.com/post/51642351Wed, 24 Sep 2008 22:50:49 -0400<a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/09/paulson_be_fourth_branch_of_go.html">Paulson Be Fourth Branch of Government</a>: The essence of this crisis is lack of knowledge, including the inability to know who owes what to whom, and where risk resides. In such a moment, government’s speed should not vary inversely with…http://reaganacolyte.com/post/51492373http://reaganacolyte.com/post/51492373Tue, 23 Sep 2008 23:53:58 -0400<a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/09/a_political_solution_part_ii.html">A Political "Solution": Part II</a>: <p> That’s what a trillion means. Put a dollar sign in front of it and that’s what the current bailout may cost.</p> <p> Will that money be spent wisely? It is theoretically possible. But don’t bet the rent…</p>http://reaganacolyte.com/post/51321852http://reaganacolyte.com/post/51321852Mon, 22 Sep 2008 22:06:06 -0400<a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/09/a_political_solution.html">A Political "Solution"</a>: There are times when government intervention can make things better. But that is no guarantee that it won’t make things worse. As they say, “the devil is in the details”— and we don’t know the…http://reaganacolyte.com/post/51321853http://reaganacolyte.com/post/51321853Mon, 22 Sep 2008 22:06:06 -0400<a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/09/mccains_temperment_fails_again.html">McCain's Temperment Fails Again</a>: To read the Journal’s details about the depths of McCain’s shallowness on the subject of Cox’s chairmanship, see “McCain’s Scapegoat” (Sept. 19, Page A22). Then consider McCain’s characteristic…http://reaganacolyte.com/post/51320574http://reaganacolyte.com/post/51320574Mon, 22 Sep 2008 21:53:14 -0400