It’s not what I signed up for, but I recently got a three-hour Marxist lecture while taking a boat ride on the intracoastal waterways of Fort Lauderdale. “That waterfront mansion coming up on our left is Alamo car rental money,”…
Just when you think it can’t get any crazier, the Washington politicians go another step higher on the lunacy scale. With the automatic spending cuts, known as the sequester, cutting only two cents per dollar out of the bloated federal…
A slideshow presented by Pennsylvania’s Secretary of Public Welfare, Gary Alexander, “Welfare’s Failure and the Solution,” graphically illustrates the cost and unsustainability of the state’s anti-poverty programs. Starting with the big picture, a “Pennsylvania Growth Trends” graph shows 10-year expansions,…
So we didn’t go over the fiscal cliff and instead got a deal that delivers no cuts in government spending, raises taxes on “the rich” (the definition of which consistently changes), expands the size and role of government, keeps the…
“If there is any lesson in the history of ideas, it is that good intentions tell you nothing about the actual consequences,” stated Thomas Sowell, economist at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Similarly, Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman warned of…
As I’m writing this, they’re in a panic in Congress, voting in the wee hours, bribing reluctant senators with millions in slush funds for their respective states, all to ram through a health reform bill that few if any of…
This is a tough time of year for eco-friendly global planners. In Copenhagen they tried to put together a deal to save the world’s forests while we rode around with millions of Christmas trees tied to our car roofs. Among…
Our dreadful destiny was that we were either going to starve to death or be buried by advancing glaciers in a new Ice Age. The alleged villain was global cooling, coming faster than anyone had predicted. It wouldn’t be all…
There’s a new picture of Obama that’s sticking in my mind, like a song that keeps playing in your head (the one that keeps playing for me this week is “Empire State of Mind,” especially the lines by Alicia Keys). …