Quick Poll
Should local school systems consider dropping some or all sports to help offset budget deficit problems?
- Absolutely: 50
- Probably: 32
- Not Sure: 14
- No Way: 113
- No Opinion: 1
Total Votes:
Love or power - take your pick
May 24 | 6:19 AM | Comments (0)
“We look forward to the time when the power of love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.”
To own or be owned
Posted 5/24/2012 | Comments (0)
Communists are famously in favor of abolishing private property because they don’t believe individuals should “own” things. Thinking people know that this is nuts.
Ending corporate welfare
Posted 5/17/2012 | Comments (0)
Corporate welfare is one of the toughest nuts to crack in Washington. While almost everyone says he is opposed to it, Congress hasn’t done much about it except to expand it in recent years with hundreds of billions of bailout dollars.
The Kellogg story
Posted 5/10/2012 | Comments (0)
In the summer of 1907, New Yorkers were astonished and the nation’s breakfast habits were forever altered by an advertising campaign cooked up in Battle Creek, Mich. The campaign’s catchy slogan was “Wednesday is ‘Wink Day’ in New York.”
The liberty factor
Posted 5/3/2012 | Comments (1)
Once upon a time in America, individual liberty was a weighty factor in public discussions about proposals before Congress. We could greatly elevate the level of public debate today if we made liberty the paramount issue.
Debt, debt and more debt
Posted 4/26/2012 | Comments (0)
The following words of wisdom are from America’s most important Founding Father. Its message is more critical today than it was when he wrote it:
When will we learn lessons of big government?
Posted 4/18/2012 | Comments (0)
"After eight years of this administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started and an enormous debt to boot!”
Flunking both moral and economic tests
Posted 4/12/2012 | Comments (0)
If compulsory unionism were put to a moral test, it would flunk without debate. Forcing a worker to join and pay dues to an organization he doesn’t want to represent him is a manifest violation of that worker’s free will and right of contract. It so happens that it also fails the economic test.
The character problem demands our attention
Posted 4/5/2012 | Comments (0)
“Character, in the long run,” said Theodore Roosevelt, “is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.”
The end of the socialized medicine road
Posted 3/29/2012 | Comments (0)
Two years ago, the mish-mash of promises and regulations known as "Obamacare" was rammed through Congress. Most of it hasn't even kicked in, but estimates already suggest it will cost two to three times what we were told in 2010. We're well down the dead-end road to socialized medicine, complete with mandates for "free" contraceptives.
Right to work: Another state follows Georgia's lead
Posted 3/22/2012 | Comments (0)
Workers in Indiana scored a big success over organized labor bosses last month when Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels signed into law a bill that makes Indiana the nation's 23rd right to work state. It's a victory for freedom and for economic progress.
A 'visit' to the Crystal Palace
Posted 3/15/2012 | Comments (0)
If you could travel back in time and be witness to a particular event or meet a certain person, what or who would it be, and why?
Just do the right thing from the start
Posted 3/8/2012 | Comments (0)
When a politician offers you something at other people's expense, remember these words of the poet John Dryden: "Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare."
Too many people? Maybe not
Posted 3/1/2012 | Comments (0)
Ever since anyone was willing to listen, scaremongers have been warning us of the imminent dangers of world overpopulation. More than 40 years ago in his 1968 best-selling book, The Population Bomb, Paul Ehrlich told us that governments would have to take an active role in forcing population growth down or "we will breed ourselves into oblivion." Ehrlich warned that in the 1970s, "hundreds of millions of people (including Americans) are going to starve to death." He said he "would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000."
Harry Teasley: Georgia's loss is Florida's gain
Posted 2/23/2012 | Comments (0)
"The natural progress of things," according to Thomas Jefferson, "is for government to gain ground and for liberty to yield." But he also said, "A little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical."
Futility of class warfare
Posted 2/16/2012 | Comments (0)
For a country that is built on private property, risk-taking entrepreneurship and respect for success, America sure produces a lot of envious people these days. Our expensive welfare state is fueled by the destructive notion that "greed" is when you want to keep your own money but "compassion" is when you want to take somebody else's.
A tiny island moves ahead of the U.S.
Posted 2/9/2012 | Comments (0)
Americans once thought of their country as the freest in the world, and not long ago, it probably was. But according to the 2012 Index of Economic Freedom, just released by the Heritage Foundation and the Wall Street Journal, the U.S. has fallen to number 10, eclipsed now even by the Indian Ocean island nation of Mauritius.
Blind – but not disabled
Posted 2/2/2012 | Comments (0)
It's a sad commentary that a woman admired by millions just a century ago is barely remembered today, even though hymns she wrote are still sung every Sunday from coast to coast.
Higher education needs some work
Posted 1/26/2012 | Comments (0)
The sad story of poor student performance in America's public (government) schools is so widely known these days that most people greet each new study that confirms it with a kind of numbed disgust. We spend, after accounting for inflation, twice what we spent per pupil 30 years ago, yet improvements are imperceptible.
The forgotten robber barons
Posted 1/19/2012 | Comments (0)
The political machine in Chicago that produced Barack Obama, several jailed governors and a national reputation of corruption is not the first of its kind. In fact, perhaps the granddaddy of them all was the infamous Tammany Hall machine of New York City, well-known and widely despised in the late 19th Century.
Words to begin the new year
Posted 1/11/2012 | Comments (0)
The first week of 2012 is not yet over but many of us have already broken as many resolutions as we've kept. As the old saying goes, "A New Year's resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other." Somebody named Joey Adams offered this classic seasonal wish: "May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions."
