Let me paint a picture for you. It was the early 1980’s, and I lived in a typical middle-class South Florida neighborhood in Ft. Lauderdale. The houses had been built in the 1950’s, few had air conditioning, most had jalousie glass windows (which were basically big walls of glass slats that can be removed for [...]
In scrolling through Facebook.com yesterday, I found a link to the blog of Robert Reich, a former Secretary of Labor (under Bill Clinton) and member of the Administrations of Gerald Ford & Jimmy Carter who currently serves as the “Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy” at the University of California, Berkeley. He was formerly a professor [...]
The more I’ve been listening to the things that Herman Cain has been saying, the more that I like him. I still have my reservations, of course, but he generally seems to get it. Personal Responsibility, Small Government, Limited Taxes, Greater Liberties, Honest Beliefs: he’s got it all. As we get closer and closer to [...]
Two kids are standing on the playground. The first kid dares the other one to hang upside down by one leg from the monkey bars. The second kid dares him back. The first kid double-dares him. The second kid double-dog-dares him. The first kid asks if the other one is scared. The second kid calls [...]
What would you do to save $60? Would you drive your car less? Would you change the temperature setting on your thermostat? Would you choose NOT to do something that you like to do? Would you change your bank? Sixty dollars on a single purchase is a pretty big deal, right? That’s equal to the [...]
The problem with writing blog posts is in limiting myself to one topic at a time when there are many things going on. Well, today, I’m not doing that. Instead, I feel like talking about a few different things, so here we go! DÉJÀ VU ALL OVER AGAIN So the House & Senate are once [...]
“This is not class warfare. It’s math.” These are the words of President Obama on September 19th in defense of his claim that raising the taxes of a few to pay for services used by many is justifiable. This is his justification for asking the wealthiest 1% to “Pay a Little More,” or, as he [...]
You know, I was planning on going through the President’s Rose Garden Speech, but after nearly four pages of dissecting lies, misrepresentations, and redundant generalities, I gave up. The way I see, if the President isn’t going to say anything new…or at least truthful…then I didn’t need to waste my time. In case you don’t [...]
