Rogel @ August 31, 2007 # One Comment
A year ago we purchased our first house. It took us long time to calculate how much mortgage we are going to afford based on our income and once we made our decision we stood firm against persuasions to buy house that was more expensive than we planed to. The arguments were very compelling, after all a more expensive […]
Rogel @ August 31, 2007 # No Comment Yet
It is August 31st again and it is Blog Day. Writing, and mostly reading, blogs offer me a wider access for ideas and knowledge bypassing the traditional gatekeepers and editors. Therefore I’m finding it nice to dedicate a day in the year to recommend and compliment some of those blogs that made my world richer. […]
Rogel @ August 28, 2007 # 3 Comments
The Club of Growth links to site that provides an index of the Internet activity of each of the Presidential candidate:
The Spartan Internet Political Performance (SIPP) Index is the first quantitative metric to measure the Internet-wide performance of each Presidential candidate for the 2008 election. The Index is comprised of over 650 quantitative factors measuring […]
Rogel @ August 28, 2007 # 2 Comments
A proud product of our public schools system…
Technorati Tags: Public Education, Humor
Rogel @ August 28, 2007 # 3 Comments
In December 1987 I was a young officer in a battalion that was called to participate in putting down what was later known as the Palestinian uprising. One of the forms of the uprising was the attempt to make the Israeli authority irrelevant by not relaying on it and not use its services. One of […]
Rogel @ August 27, 2007 # No Comment Yet
I was fascinated with the William Boyd’s op-ed on the Sunday NY Times. It is fascinating because the idea that in order to sell something, in this case wine, the seller has to:
The only brutal answer for the French wine industry is the Thierry Bernard solution: simply to make less wine and make it taste better. (And […]
Rogel @ August 26, 2007 # No Comment Yet
In a comment on a pervious post Ingrid, the writer of two interesting blogs, raised an interesting point:
what do you think of the libertarians’ approach for getting to office? I did go to one press conference/meeting for a libertarian here in TX, and I think they are more devoted to their outlook than even Republicans are. […]
Rogel @ August 25, 2007 # 2 Comments
Few months ago I expressed my concerns regarding the so called Fair Tax. I argued that I see three major problems with the propose taxation system: It deals with the tax collection instead of the spending, it isn’t fair and it is open to corruption at least as much as the old system. No wonder […]
Rogel @ August 21, 2007 # 3 Comments
I would oppose public education even if the budget numbers were different. But it is still shocking to learn that the budget per student in DC public schools is more than twice than the tuition I need to pay for private school. And in case you wonder, my money buys much better education…
Is the problem […]
Rogel @ August 20, 2007 # 2 Comments
Like many people I will never forget that horrifying day, The smoke and the fire, the people jumping down to their death and the collapse of the towers. It was not the first time I witness the results of terror attack, nor the first time I witnessed death. But the 9/11 attack caught me, and […]