Fifty years’ worth of war on poverty has produced little benefit, save for a few valuable lessons. For instance, we’ve learned about the valiant struggle the disadvantaged wage against capitalist oppression. The homeless, the hungry, and the downtrodden are victims of free market greed. But there’s one participant in Washington’s war on poverty who’s routinely […]
A good friend of mine recently described me as a libertarian that leans Republican. After reflection, I concluded that I am a libertarian that leans away from Democrat, so I suppose he is right – it is all a matter of perspective. The difference between the modern day Democrat Party and the modern day Republican […]
Says here that three tickets won the record-setting $640 million Mega Millons lottery jackpot; a lot of loot, to be certain, which would take any near-normal, rational person years to burn through. Know what’s not normal or rational? The Indy Star’s Gary Varvel does and puts the insanity that is our federal government in stark […]
The fine people of Sanford, Florida, have recently had to welcome the circus to town. The visit of one of the not-so-greatest shows on earth follows the killing of a 17-year-old man named Trayvon Martin, who was shot dead by George Zimmerman a little over a month ago. The fact that Zimmerman killed Martin is […]
The question started churning in my brain when Tea Party favorite, Utah’s Sen. Mike Lee, tossed his weight behind Mitt Romney. The churning turned into a rumbling with a formal Romney endorsement from George H.W. Bush, along with one from Florida’s Sen. Marc Rubio. And now this: That’s a mighty load of churning and rumbling […]
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke recently launched the highest profile assault on the gold standard since President Richard Nixon closed the gold window in 1971. The Wall Street Journal headlined its report “Bernanke Defends Country’s Break With the Gold Standard.” “The gold standard would not be feasible for both practical reasons and policy reasons,” Bernanke […]
There was a marvelous moment in Washington, DC, the other day. No, I am not talking about the reports that Ruth Buzzi Ginsberg apparently stayed awake for the entire Obamacare hearing. I’m not even thinking of that oh-so-telling, hot-mic moment for President Obama, when he confided to Russia’s president that after his coronation in November […]
I grimaced yesterday as I read a local online publication called the Swampscott Patch, which covers the greater Massachusetts area. The site had a release from the principal of a high school advising that on Friday he would waive the school’s dress code so students could wear hoodies all day and in every class, part […]
It does my heart good to see The Supremes back together and almost working a full day. The nine distinguished justices are, of course, hearing the matter of Obamacare. By Supreme Court standards it’s an overtime day. They will have actually heard a grand total of six hours of oral arguments spread out over the […]
I don’t know anyone – liberal, conservative, libertarian, or socialist for that matter – who believes that welfare is better than work. Do you? So if everyone agrees welfare is undesirable, why on earth are so many Americans on it? That question will answer itself at the end of this column. The dilemma of government-monopoly […]
