http://www.roadtothemiddleclass.com Work to restore the Road to the Middle Class. Ground it in faith. Grade it with education. Protect it with mutual aid. Defend it with the law. en-us Copyright 2007 Christopher Chantrill 30 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:29:03 -0400 http://www.roadtothemiddleclass.com/blog1596_obamas_secret_mission.html http://www.roadtothemiddleclass.com/blog1596_obamas_secret_mission.html Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:24:16 -0400 Christopher Chantrill It can now be told. The reason for Barack Obama is simple. He has been sent down to Earth to drive conservatives to distraction. Today Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) spoke to the German people (and ... http://www.roadtothemiddleclass.com/blog1595_the_mess_in_the_academe.html http://www.roadtothemiddleclass.com/blog1595_the_mess_in_the_academe.html Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:24:22 -0400 Christopher Chantrill In her latest article marriage advocate Maggie Gallagher takes out after the fake Obama world tour. Even Andrea Mitchell, she writes, realizes that Obama is faking it, faking press conferences when ... http://www.roadtothemiddleclass.com/blog1594_what_the_nyt_wouldnt_print.html http://www.roadtothemiddleclass.com/blog1594_what_the_nyt_wouldnt_print.html Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:31:56 -0400 Christopher Chantrill The flap over The New York Times refusing to print an oped by John McCain is a gem. Their refusal to print McCain's responding to an Obama oped published last week is the sort of thing that ... http://www.roadtothemiddleclass.com/blog1593_obama_and_berlin.html http://www.roadtothemiddleclass.com/blog1593_obama_and_berlin.html Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:01:29 -0400 Christopher Chantrill Politicians are creatures of their staff. And this becomes even more so as we climb the food chain to the presidential level. So when we say that President Bush is clueless, we are really talking ... http://www.roadtothemiddleclass.com/blog1592_a_good_denier_day.html http://www.roadtothemiddleclass.com/blog1592_a_good_denier_day.html Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:28:48 -0400 Christopher Chantrill First a note to our readers. The American Physical Society wants you to know that the paper published by Lord Monckton and the posting by Jeffrey Marque does not represent a change in APS policy. ... http://www.roadtothemiddleclass.com/blog1591_liberals_race_crutch.html http://www.roadtothemiddleclass.com/blog1591_liberals_race_crutch.html Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:01:50 -0400 Christopher Chantrill Affirmative action opponent Linda Chavez comments today on a boringly same-old-same-old race poll conducted by The New York Times. Guess what. African Americans are convinced that the US is ... http://www.roadtothemiddleclass.com/blog1590_everyone_doesnt_do_it.html http://www.roadtothemiddleclass.com/blog1590_everyone_doesnt_do_it.html Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:35:42 -0400 Christopher Chantrill Everyone agrees, don't they, that candidates appeal to the base in their primary campaigns and then they tack to the center when it's time for the general. Agreed? And nobody has done that ... http://www.roadtothemiddleclass.com/blog1589_the_business_of_government_isnt_business.html http://www.roadtothemiddleclass.com/blog1589_the_business_of_government_isnt_business.html Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:20:33 -0400 Christopher Chantrill President Calvin Coolidge famously proclaimed that "the business of America is business." Unfortunately some people evidently misheard him. They thought he meant that government should get into ... http://www.roadtothemiddleclass.com/blog1588_what_about_the_real_problem_with_obama.html http://www.roadtothemiddleclass.com/blog1588_what_about_the_real_problem_with_obama.html Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:23:29 -0400 Christopher Chantrill The oh so sophisticated New Yorker has a picture of Obama and wife on the cover, depicting what they assume is the right-wingnut slur of Obama as a Muslim and his wife as a chic radical guerrilla. As ... http://www.roadtothemiddleclass.com/blog1587_who_are_the_top_one_percent.html http://www.roadtothemiddleclass.com/blog1587_who_are_the_top_one_percent.html Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:08:44 -0400 Christopher Chantrill Yesterday we looked at the IRS's most revealing spreadsheet (xls), the one that says that the top one percent of income tax filers pay 40 percent of the federal income tax. It's mighty nice ... http://www.roadtothemiddleclass.com/blog1586_only_the_rich_pay_taxes_update.html http://www.roadtothemiddleclass.com/blog1586_only_the_rich_pay_taxes_update.html Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:43:04 -0400 Christopher Chantrill The IRS keeps a handy-dandy spreadsheet on the federal income tax. The latest version, for 2005, is here (xls). The IRS's spreadsheet shows that "only the rich pay taxes," well income taxes, ... http://www.roadtothemiddleclass.com/blog1585_vanity_of_vanities.html http://www.roadtothemiddleclass.com/blog1585_vanity_of_vanities.html Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:35:37 -0400 Christopher Chantrill Jane Austen's last complete novel, Persuasion, is about vanity. Principally, it turns around the vanity of the novel heroine's father, Sir Walter Elliott. This empty vessel (Latin: vanus: ... http://www.roadtothemiddleclass.com/blog1584_more_capital_needed_at_fannie_mae_and_freddie_mac.html http://www.roadtothemiddleclass.com/blog1584_more_capital_needed_at_fannie_mae_and_freddie_mac.html Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:33:39 -0400 Christopher Chantrill Yesterday, shares in Fannie Mae, the government-sponsored Federal National Mortgage Assocation were down 16 percent, while shares in the government-sponsored Freddie Mac were down 18 percent. There ... http://www.roadtothemiddleclass.com/blog1583_the_trouble_with_faith_based_initiatives.html http://www.roadtothemiddleclass.com/blog1583_the_trouble_with_faith_based_initiatives.html Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:36:46 -0400 Christopher Chantrill Back when President Bush was pushing his idea for faith-based organizations to have access to government monies it seemed like a good idea. But many conservatives warned against it, because whatever ... http://www.roadtothemiddleclass.com/blog1582_clarks_mccain_put_down.html http://www.roadtothemiddleclass.com/blog1582_clarks_mccain_put_down.html Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:17:59 -0400 Christopher Chantrill You and I can only guess at the tactical political calculations of presidential campaigns. So we just shake our heads and wonder at the attempt by Gen. Wesley Clark, an Obama supporter, to brush off ...