In the days leading up to and on the morning of the “Restoring Honor” rally it was ring-around the liberal networks as every left-leaning news outlet from CBS to MSNBC attempted to paint Glenn Beck’s gathering as, “controversial and political”. On Friday, ABC ran a headline that read, “Glenn Beck’s Non Political Rally Turns […]
As the failure of major public pension funds looms on the horizon, talk is of how to resolve the issue. R. Eden Martin, in a well thought out essay in the WSJ, makes various recommendations that would resolve part of the problem, but his thought, and that of most others, treats the symptoms and not […]
You know, sometimes the best answer is also the simplest answer. William of Ockham (Occam) was a 14th century English philosopher who came up with the ‘crazy’ notion that perhaps the simplest answer is the best one and it became known, oddly enough, as ‘Occam’s Razor’. Same with the idea that perhaps the United States […]
I don’t know what happened to RICO. Maybe there are just too many fraudulent organizations and culprits to charge. Besides, when the culprits are in charge of the Justice Department, it’s unlikely that they will charge themselves. Organized crime in government is rampant, yet we don’t hear of RICO charges against organized fraud with […]
Who will stop them? That is a question asked many times in history by defenders of religion, family, property, and tradition in the face of various fanatical revolutionaries. Despite the question, the guillotine kept snapping heads in 18th century France until the revolutionaries exhausted themselves, in part by killing each other off, leading to military […]
While it is “only” August of 2011 and elections for Charlotte Mayor and Charlotte City Council are 15 months away, it seems to me that NOW is the time we should be planning, fundraising, and doing the legwork that will be required if we are to change the makeup of City government in Charlotte. This […]
During the 2008 election cycle, Fox News personality Sean Hannity proclaimed journalism to be dead. As each day passes the overwhelming evidence, along with recent polling data clearly proves that assessment to be correct. However, many could argue the industry had lost its so-called objective news coverage decades prior. Flash forward a couple of years […]
One sure way to draw a crowd is to offer a benefit paid for with someone else’s money. That’s why 30-thousand people congregated in Atlanta to apply for taxpayer funded federal housing subsidies. You needn’t be an Old Testament prophet to foresee how such a gathering would unfold. There was shoving, pushing, cursing and a […]
Since Bernanke is scheduled to make announcements on the Federal Reserve policies today, my mind has turned to financial questions. Not schooled in economics, I have but the basic financial skills to get through life and hopefully survive. Most of us are flying blind in the high stakes game of earning and shepherding our money. […]
Environmentalist radicals (ER’s) are something to behold. Their expectations are that all they want should be done with no concern for costs. They concern themselves with anything they think is wrong and their overall viewpoint seems to be that mankind is wrong if he does anything more than the Australian aboriginals. ER’s want the climate […]
