Most people seem to forget that the government cannot give one person money without taking it away from someone else. Politicians seem to forget that they forcibly take money from persons who earned it and give it is someone who did not earn it.
Monthly Archives For March 2010
Al Qaeda, Gitmo & National Security
Are the Obama Administration’s actions putting Americans at increased risk of a terrorist attack? Keep America Safe and its board members argue that it is.
Czar Trek
Although there continues to be plenty of controversy surrounding Kevin Jennings, the President’s latest response isn’t “fire him” but “fund him!”
Clueless in Cambridge
The last Republican president and his Democratic successor both graduated from schools within Harvard University and that should probably be a literal red flag.
Another Use For Reconciliation
While the Obama Administration and Democratic Congressional leadership consider using reconciliation as a means to pass their health care bill, multiple sources suggest that this procedure could also be used to push through the student loan bill in conjunction with ObamaCare.
Is medical marijuana medicinal?
The left says he was a right-winger; the conservatives say that he was a leftist. What is abundantly clear, from reading his Internet commentaries, is that Pentagon shooter John Patrick Bedell was a psychotic pothead
Remedial Rules for Radicals
Campus Progress is bent out of shape over the mere prospect of federal and state budget cuts in higher education programs.
Stimulating History
To be able to critically analyze economic probabilities, one needs to know the history of previous similar situations. For the first 125 years of our county we had no Federal Reserve Bank, no permanent personal income tax and no massive government stimulus spending. We also had virtually no inflation and the average economic downturn lasted only 10 months.
Ethics & the College
Here’s a new twist on that old cliché “Those who can’t do, teach.” “Last night, former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich returned to his alma mater, Northwestern University, and to a crowd as skeptical as it was curious to hear how he would defend his legacy in a panel discussion dedicated to ethics in politics,” David Vognar reported on The Huffington Post. “The result for both Blagojevich and the audience was more talk, talk, talk.”
Ave Maria Maligned
The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights is filing a formal complaint today with the Michigan Attorney Grievance Committee regarding the anti-Catholic comments made by defense attorney Henry Scharg; it is also pursuing other avenues of redress.