A few hundred years into the Christian era, the merger of the Roman Empire and the Roman Catholic Church blurred the lines between church and state; it corrupted both, injured one and killed the other. Thomas Jefferson didn’t have to be genius to figure this one out; he just needed to be moderately well-read. The […]
Remember these from school? “Ask not what your country can do for you; demand it.” “The only thing to fear is buying our own stuff.” “Give me liberty or give me free stuff.” “One if by land, two if by sea; get off that horse and buy my stuff for me.” And who can forget, […]
For a capitalist country, we sure don’t know very much about money. It takes more dollars these days to buy the same amounts of oil, corn, wheat, copper, gold, silver, vacations, grapes, health care, timber, other currencies, ethanol and gasoline. And yet we forget about all that other stuff and blame the high gas prices […]
It starts and ends with one question: “Who owns you?” If you believe that you are owned by your society, that others are entitled to your person, your property, and your compliance with their beliefs, then your demand of the law is that it limits freedom in order to maximize equality. Conversely, if you believe […]
Let’s cut to the chase. Gingrich is dropping faster than Bill Clinton’s drawers at an intern convention. After six years hard at it, Romney has not inspired one single Mitt-bot. Santorum is everyone’s second choice – he’s the guy that the girl in your home town settled for when the dude that gave her the […]
Economic statistics can be very confusing, but they can also tell us a lot about the country we live in if they are presented in digestible chunks. Here is our America according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics: 312 million people live here 154 million of us want to work 141 million of us do […]
Like most other “rich” people, I slept in this morning; rolled out from under the spun-gold sheets at the crack of noon, showered in Evian and went outside to fill up my humungous money bucket with the golden coins that fall out of the sky on people like me. No, no really – that’s where […]
One of the advantages of writing an opinion blog is that opinions are never inaccurate, even when they are wrong. But we should expect better from government agencies who publish statistics that policy makers, businesspeople, academics, journalists, and citizens rely on to make decisions and draw conclusions – like the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), […]
Another winter in Wisconsin, and another round of primal scream therapy for our unionists hell bent on putting the entire state through another round of failed recalls. The leftist diehards are helping us to celebrate Christmas by shoving annoying recall petitions at us while we shop. When given the opportunity to tell me their single […]
