Saturday, April 27, 2013
SURVEY: Obama won every Asian American nationality
A report released Friday found that every segment of Asian Americans voted for Barack Obama in November, including the historically Republican Vietnamese and Filipino communities.
But the report found that almost half of Asian American and Pacific Islander registered voters do not identify with the Democratic or Republican parties, meaning that they may be open to switching their votes to other parties in the future. Democrat Obama received 68 percent of the Asian American and Pacific Islander vote, compared with 30 percent for Republican Mitt Romney.
Obama did best among Asian Indians, who gave the president 84 percent of their votes. More than 60 percent of Vietnamese and Filipino voters supported Obama.
READ MORE: http://blog.pe.com/multicultural-beat/2013/04/06/survey-obama-won-every-asian-american-nationality/
Indian Libertarians
Our mission is to raise awareness and educate people about the principles and philosophy of individual liberty and free market capitalism.
- Educate about the principle of individual liberty
- Promote free market capitalism
- Understand economics through the Austrian school
- Systematic study of libertarian philosophy
Manna from Heaven, or a New Recession?
This article appeared in The Times of India on April 21, 2013.
The price of gold, oil and many other commodities crashed last week. The stock markets zoomed and economists smiled, suddenly seeing positive consequences in three areas — inflation, the trade deficit and the fiscal deficit.
These three factors had earlier dragged down the economy to its lowest growth rate for a decade, just 4.7 per cent in the last quarter. But the global commodity crash should reduce inflation in India too, cheaper imports should shrink the trade deficit, and the fiscal deficit should shrink because oil and fertiliser subsidies will reduce. This is a triple helping of manna from above. Does it mean that the worst is over, and that the flagging Indian economy will now take off?
Read more: http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/manna-heaven-or-new-recession
Speaking with Harmeet K. Dhillon, Vice Chair of California Republicans
WASHINGTON, April 16, 2013 ― Harmeet K. Dhillon is a name you will come to know. Recently, Harmeet made history by becoming the first woman ever elected to the position of Vice Chairman of the California Republican Party. Born in India, Dhillon and family arrived in the United States when she was two years old. From the Bronx, New York to rural North Carolina, where her father worked as an orthopedic surgeon, her family adopted and lived by traditional, conservative values.
Read more: http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/richard-ivory-gives-voice/2013/apr/16/speaking-harmeet-k-dhillon-vice-chair-california-r/#ixzz2ReCgIaq5 Follow us: @wtcommunities on Twitter
growth vs. GROWTH
We need to significantly reduce the regulatory burden on the private sector. The Obama administration is doing the opposite. They’re loading on more and more regulation on the private without respect to how the economy functions. - Dick Cheney
What has happened since October 9, 2007? Oh, not that much…
The stock market absorbed a 57% decline, the U.S. elected then re-elected Barack Obama, dubious amounts of political partisanship has become the norm, Obamacare became reality, Dodd-Frank was passed and slowly enacted, the U.S. has seen its credit rating downgraded, the Fed has implemented QE1-Infinity, unemployment peaked above 10% and now sits at 7.7%, the markets have experienced a 4-year bull market since bottoming out resulting in a return to all-time highs, the economy has experienced 4 years of tepid economic expansion …you get the point, a lot has happened.
Historically, the economic bounce-back from severe recessions has been staggeringly forceful, as was the case with the most recent recovery initially; however it has gone through periods of regression and improvement along the way. Much of the relative impotence along the way has been the result of ill-conceived policies that have blunted the economy.
The financial crisis was an abhorrent event to have to recover from; it rocked investors, businesses and the general public to the core. It made us question how we do things in the U.S. Yet memory is short-lived and most recovered from this event relatively quickly, but then Washington did everything it could to limit expectations and cause new volatility.
This has manifested itself presently in the form of weak 2013 GDP growth projections that range anywhere from 1.7-2.3%. This begs the question, “Where could the U.S. growth be without Washington’s wrangling and regulations?”
UK Conservative Friends of India - launch film
The launch film of Conservative Friends of India, a new member-led organisation that will help to develop links and a meaningful relationship between the Conservative Party, the British Indian community and India.
Conservative Friends of India statement on the death of Baroness Thatcher
Conservative Friends of India is sad to learn of the death of former Prime Minister, the Baroness Thatcher. Commenting on behalf of CF India its co-Chairmen, Shailesh Vara MP and Ranjit Baxi, said:
“Baroness Thatcher will go down in history as one of the greatest ever British Prime Ministers. It is no exaggeration to say that she saved the country from terminal economic decline and, in doing so, helped us rediscover a pride in our nation. Her refusal to bow down to Argentine aggression and her staunch, absolute and ultimately successful rejection of communism rightly earned her the sobriquet ‘the Iron Lady.’
Saturday, April 6, 2013
Reihan Salam :The Next Same-Sex Marriage Debate
From The National Review:
Reihan Salam's latest column for Reuters Opinion is on how the same-sex civil marriage debate is likely to unfold as opponents find themselves outnumbered. I also recommend reading Ramesh Ponnuru’s 2003 essay on the debate, which did an excellent job of anticipating how support for same-sex civil marriage would grow.
Yes, Health Care is a Right -- An Individual Right
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| Avik Roy is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and the author of the Forbes blog The Apothecary. He has stated he is an "outside adviser to the Romney campaign on health care issues |
Many moons ago, I served a term as chairman of the Conservative Party of the Yale Political Union, a parliamentary debating society. On March 26, the Union invited me back to keynote a debate on the topic, “Resolved, That Health Care is a Right.” What follows is an edited excerpt of my remarks, in which I argue that health care is indeed a right—but not in the way that most progressives think.
Thank you, Madame President.
The reason I’m here is to explain to the members of this House why health care is, indeed, a right. Let me start by telling the story of Deamonte Driver.
Deamonte lived on the wrong side of the tracks, in Prince George’s County, Maryland, outside of Washington, D.C. He was raised by a single mother. He spent his childhood in and out of homeless shelters. He was a black kid on welfare.
Deamonte died at age twelve. But Deamonte died, not in a drive-by shooting, or in a drug deal gone bad. Deamonte died of a toothache.
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