I am a Christian man of faith, but those who know me well, also know that I normally wear my religion in my heart, not on my sleeve. I love and respect people of different faiths, and those with no faith at all. In light of recent events, however, I feel the calling and need […]
Everyone was all a-twitter last weekend when a lower level deputy Treasury secretary, not President Obama, announced in his blog, (not the President’s) that the onerous employer-mandate section of Obamacare (just that part, nothing else) was going to be suspended for a year. Until after next year’s mid-term elections. (see Wall Street Journal’s scathing on-line piece ‘Employer Mandate: […]
“The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter.” ― Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking The Republican Party’s senior operatives publicly are committing the cardinal sin of promising to spend tens of millions of dollars of its most […]
*Editors note: A heartfelt congratulations to Kayser! We appreciate him sharing this non-political, yet most exciting bit of personal news. We know a lot of readers enjoy his columns with us and we figured a little human interest story wouldn’t hurt anybody. 🙂 As many of my friends and colleagues know, following a miscarriage in […]
How does bigger government stifle the economy? One cannot count all the ways. The June 24th issue of Time Magazine tells us of several. The article “Caveat Sharer” is how innovations based on information sharing technology is under attack either by government or from competitors through government. Readers are told of new car rental service […]
If I wanted to apply for the job of Mecklenburg County Manager, the first thing I’d do is declare that I’m not a “white male” — and I’m really not! (I just checked in the mirror and I’m actually kind of beige, so I do hope that would help my chances.) Kim Ratliff endlessly called herself […]
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court voided a key provision of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) of 1965, specifically Section 4(b), which lays out a specific formula by which jurisdictions with a history of discriminatory voting practices are compelled to seek pre-approval for any electoral changes that might impact voting rights. Prior to this decision, there […]
If you listen to my show you know I don’t debate abortion laws, take phone calls about the abortion issue, or book guests to talk about it. Like gay marriage, people have views on abortion that are deeply connected with religious beliefs. And when you get into topics like abortion, people call in and say […]
How many secrets does our government have? What are they? In Friday’s local paper, McClatchy’s Washington Bureau reported on “Obama’s program targets insiders”. It turns out the Obama administration believes “most federal departments and agencies nationwide, including the Peace Corps, the Social Security Administration and the Education and Agriculture departments” have such secrets that the […]
Inflation. Pure and simple. Inflating the national currency is the tried-and-true way that governments have used for centuries and millennium to get their way out of budget problems caused by excessive debt. But it is a dangerous bet and one that would not be necessary had we been responsible adults about our budgets and not […]
