The short of it is the classic advice: Don’t buy more than you can afford. Don’t buy unless you intend to live there for many years or maybe if you want to rent the place out. Real estate can decline like any other investment. I agree that it does not mean OMG #$%!!! ARMAGEDDON!

In general, I don’t feel pity for Schmucks!

More importantly, why are these madmen and rioters free to run in our streets, holding inciting signs and making death threats, while Geert Wilders, Aayan al Hirsi and the cartoonists fear for their very lives in hiding?
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Out of the blue this morning, I received the following email from an Obama supporter. I had to share. Spelling etc. are exactly as I received the email. Her last name and email address are being withheld for obvious reasons:…

Excerpts from the best of the conservative blogosphere….

I will hold most of my commentary till another day, and let these people’s words speak for themselves.

While Wozniak and several other try for some measure of reconciliation, Miao, Anderson and Spring want none of it.

Meanwhile, a lette…

Admittedly this is one of those stories that I want to file under “What the Hell!” or “stranger than fiction”.

But then again, nothing - or at least very little - in American Politics it really so unbelievable or implausible as to be…

I?ve listened to several of Barack Obama?s speeches from beginning to end. Some of them get pretty long winded, but I?ve stuck it out and listened. Its not hard to listen to him with an emotional ear, but it is more difficult when you are listening …

I found this disturbing video at Something ?. and Half of Something. It is part of a documentary that can be viewed in seven segments at The Jawa Report. This documentary follows two Australian women who are converts to islam. Interestingly, they dec….

I was interested in reading about John McCain?s views of sending his own son to war. I have lived through watching and waiting while my son served 15 months in a violent, savage neighborhood in Baghdad, Iraq and will probably have to do it again some….

Michael Rudulph stands vigil outside the Eternal Flame of Freedom monument on the edge of Linn Park, outraged that it?s been years ? no one knows for sure how many ? since there?s been so much as a flicker from the granite tribute to all war vetera…