Ron Ross
Apparently a large fraction of America’s creative talent is being used for the creation of imaginary anxieties. These faux phobias are doing great damage to our abilities to live our lives to the fullest. A partial list of bogus anxieties…
Currently the average price of regular gasoline in California is $3.81 per gallon. That is $1.11 above the national average ($2.70). What are the reasons for this 40 percent higher price? There’s a witch’s brew of factors, but in a…
You now know, or will soon know, what your individual (or joint) tax liability was for last year. However, you’re paying considerably more income taxes than you probably realize. How much more? That’s impossible to say, and that is a…
If Democrats wanted to know some of the reasons they got skunked in the recent elections they could learn a lot by looking at what’s going on in California. The state of California is a distillation of fundamental flaws that…
President Obama says that growing inequality is “the defining issue of our time.” Several Democrats have said that inequality will be their primary campaign theme for the 2014 election season. If the president is correct, and if the inequality strategy…
Is there a limit to self-delusion? And if there is, what happens when the limit is exceeded? New York Times columnist Gail Collins began her column last week as follows, “When Democrats run into each other on elevators, they exchange…
What’s the only private business that gives the equivalent of an obscene gesture to forty percent of its potential customers? Hint: it’s also the only private institution mentioned in the Constitution. The answer, of course, is the press, or more…
Beyond being infuriating and insulting, President Obama’s now notorious “you didn’t build that” speech probably left many people puzzled. It is so foreign to how most Americans think they might have wondered where such thinking comes from. Whether or not…
Running for My Life: One Lost Boy’s Journey from the Killing Fields of Sudan to the Olympic Games By Lopez Lomong with Mark Tabb (Thomas Nelson, 230 pages, $24.99) Two years ago on a flight from Denver to Des Moines…
President Obama’s greatest talent seems to be his ability to infuriate his opponents. The latest example is the campaign speech he gave in Roanoke, Virginia last weekend. In that speech he declared, “If you’ve got a business — you didn’t…
