About: Dennis Behreandt
Posts by Dennis Behreandt
Man’s Upward Reach
Religion, said Bertrand Russell, is “a disease born of fear and a source of untold misery to the human race.” Russell’s opinion has...
Rick Warren, the CFR, and Barack Obama
Is Obama’s choice of Rick Warren to give the invocation at the presidential inauguration purposefully driven? The news media, Evangelicals, the gay community,...
Bernard Madoff and Financial Pyramid Schemes
The world’s wealthy and well-connected are reeling from disclosures that an international investment giant – Wall Street-based Bernard Madoff Investment Securities LLC, run...
Automaker Bailout Fails in the Senate
H.R. 7321, the auto bailout bill which swept through the House of Representatives on Wednesday, died in the Senate on Thursday evening when...
U.S. Bishops Take Action on Abortion
In the wake of a presidential race that culminated in the election of a pro-abortion administration, U.S. Catholic bishops moved quickly on November...
Auto Sales Drop; Detroit Faces “Carnage”
It's no surprise that U.S. automakers are in trouble. Facing massive costs for health insurance, falling demand for mainstay products like trucks and...
New International Financial System in the Offing?
In response to the ongoing financial crisis, world leaders are planning "a new Bretton Woods," according to Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. According...
Fed to Buy Commercial Paper
Following a roller coaster day on Wall Street that saw the Dow close under 10,000 for the first time in years, the Federal...
Some Progress on the Illegal Immigration Front
Item: The Associated Press reported on August 28: “Hispanics should not have to live in fear of raids by immigration agents, Michelle Obama...
McCain Calls for New Federal Agency
Speaking in Green Bay, Wisconsin, on September 19, Republican presidential candidate John McCain said he would create a new federal agency, called the...
Fed Takes Over AIG
As the deepening financial crisis worsened yesterday, the Federal Reserve sought socialism as a cure and gobbled up another formerly private entity, the...
Thousands of Infants Sickened in China
In the wake of the tainted toothpaste and pet food scandals, thousands of infants have been sickened in China by contaminated powdered milk....
At 100, What Next For General Motors?
For decades, the health of General Motors has been equated, rhetorically at least, with the health of the U.S. economy. In the early...
Obama: Government is the Answer
Several days ago, Barack Obama delivered a stem-winder of a speech accepting the nomination of the Democratic Party for president, before a crowd...
Swedish Welfare
Sweden’s strong cultural values have temporarily propped up its celebrated welfare state, but this support is growing steadily weaker due to the nation’s...