Jeff Taylor

By Jesse Taylor Have a dollar? Buy a house in Detroit! The fact that a home on the city’s east side was listed for $1 recently shows how depressed the real estate market has become in one of America’s poorest big cities.And it still took 19 days to find a buyer.The sale price of the […]

By Jesse Taylor It strikes one that assailing your political opponent for being a citizen of the world, beset with empty rhetoric and a simpleminded political naivete would be more effective if you weren’t promising blanket national solidarity and commensurate support with another country based on an far-too-aggressive misread of a conflict that’s less than […]

By Jesse Taylor That’s what I’ve been missing in the whole “accountable government” part of conservatism…that government actually shouldn’t be accountable for itself. Makes perfect sense now! The Bush Administration is seeking to gut the Endangered Species Act by letting agencies determine for themselves whether or not projects violate said Act rather than submitting projects […]

By Jesse Taylor Perhaps years of reading people mixing up average and median statistics in relation to income has left me jaded, but I’m highly suspicious of this LA Times piece theorizing that the rises in gas prices aren’t really that bad, because average disposable income has risen. After studying the average yearly price of […]

By Jesse Taylor Exotic citizen of the world Barack Obama is taking a page out of Chinese and South Korean playbooks and encouraging supporters to sign up to hear about his VP choice via text message. It’s actually a pretty smart move on Obama’s part – American use of the text message as a primary […]

By Jesse Taylor You know, it would be easier to have sympathy for conservatives in Hollywood if they would tote out people who actually had careers that suffered for being conservative, rather than rambling, narcissistic millionaires who’ve made long and fruitful careers out of being conservative in Hollywood. The Politico interviews Dennis Miller, and it’s […]

By Jesse Taylor Okay, well, not so much. One of the focuses of any Presidential campaign is who’s going to create new jobs. The main mechanism of Republicans is the tax cut; of Democrats, robust use of government programs. But the discussion that tends to happen on far too limited terms is what, exactly, happens […]