DEBT AND TAXES – PART 1

When last we spoke, I posted a very lengthy analysis about the President’s Speech from April 13th, which outlined his plans for dealing with our Nation’s Economic Woes. Among those plans included the proposal of raising taxes. His argument, of course, is that raising taxes on the “Top 2% of Wage Earners” help to fix [...]

NON-ESSENTIAL EMPLOYEES

I pay a guy in my neighborhood to trim my grass. The community does the actual mowing, but I pay someone to come out and run the weed-whacker and trim the edges. He’s retired, it takes him about 10 minutes every couple of weeks, and I pay him $10/month to avoid the $40/per trim charge [...]

EQUAL JUSTICE FOR ALL

Why do we have laws? The simple answer…the one intended by our Founders…was to protect the RIGHTS of the individual from the actions of anyone else. Take the right to life, for example. Murder, for obvious reasons, is against the law. To protect YOUR right to life, the law was written to make sure that nobody [...]

OBAMA AND LIBYA

Last night (3/28/2011), President Obama finally addressed the American People about what the military action that he authorized in Libya beginning nearly two weeks ago. Unlike previous Presidents, he did not speak from the Oval Office: he spoke in front of a “Live Studio Audience” at the National Defense University in Washington, DC. He spoke [...]

NOT LIKE THE OTHER

Do you remember watching “Sesame Street” as a kid? I used to love the whole, “Which of these things is not like the other?” segments. They’d give you four items, like a duck, a goose, a chicken and a cow, and then ask the question: “Which of these things is not like the other?” (In [...]

A PRESIDENT OR A DICTATOR

“The Congress shall have the power…to declare War…” – The United States Constitution, Article 1, Section 8 The line between Freedom and Tyranny is paper-thin; specifically, the paper on which the Constitution of the United States was written. Our Constitution was intended from its initial inception to be VERY SPECIFIC regarding which branches of our [...]

THE OTHER PRICE OF FREE SPEECH

Free Speech: it’s not just protected so that you can say what you want, but also so that others can say what they want…including the Westboro Baptist Church!

AN ECONOMIC FAILURE

Mr. President: Do you understand the idea of Spending Cuts? Do you understand the idea of Economics? Not according to Ronald Reagan you don’t, and we’re running out of time for you to learn it!