“If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging,” suggested Will Rogers. President Obama keeps digging. To be fair, he inherited a recession caused by programs he had voted for while Senator; for example, the bank bailout. Also an overheated housing boom was caused largely by a combination of the Federal Reserve’s keeping interest rates […]
Recently I wrote a column that brought objections from some readers, which indicates the issue needs be more deeply dissected. What responsibilities should recipients of transfer payments have, if any, and what rights should they give up to those who pay? In choosing to transfer money from one group of people to another, for whatever […]
You would like to think that someone in Washington must know how to ‘create jobs’ with all the talk that emanates from the White House and Capitol Hill on a daily basis, wouldn’t you? If you listen to Republicans talk, you would be led to believe that all you have to do is ‘swear on […]
There’s no questioning Warren Buffett’s ability to invest. People who sink their money in dry oil wells and earthworm farms don’t become billionaires. Buffett is one of those rare people who can spot a winner, act on it, and turn a tidy profit. Thus he’s amassed a sizeable fortune. What’s wrong with that? Ask Warren […]
If you’re reading this, then you’re probably an activist who is fighting the good fight to advance the principles of liberty. More specifically, you are working to help candidates who adhere to those principles get elected. Succeeding at the ballot box certainly means finding good candidates and giving them our time and treasure, but more […]
Much is being made of California Representative Maxine Water’s recent town hall speech in which she called out the “Tea Party” as the source of America’s problems and encouraged all party members to visit the infernal regions. While many reacted to her comments in their own untactful manner, hurling racial or personal slurs, the correct […]
The joke in my house when people are tongue-tied or getting things mixed up is: “Someone is getting their merds wixed up!” (if you didn’t catch that, flip the first letters of “words mixed” and you get it.) If you’re looking for definitions to describe the current political soup we are in, good luck! We […]
Before taking a seat in Congress, all elected senators and representatives must swear an oath of office. In summary, they are required to support and defend the Constitution of the United States, bearing full faith and allegiance to our nation’s foundational law. Their oath confirms their willingness to bear these duties freely and without reservation. It seems […]
Jails (not to be confused with prisons) exist for two purposes. One is to house those people who by dint of their anti-social proclivities alienate themselves from society. The second, less commonly understood, is to house those people who find themselves unable to cope normally with society, yet do not commit anti-social actions. We generally […]
Now that S&P has fired a shot across the bow of the United States in terms of a debt downgrade, maybe it is time for the adults to show up in the room in Washington and dictate the next steps. If there are any, that is. There are many good reasons for being unabashedly for […]
