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August 3, 2012
Obama’s executive branch is by-passing Congress again.According to reports from the Farm Bureau, virtually all waters of the United States could soon fall under regulatory control of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), if that agency succeeds…
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September 21, 2012
In light of the Chicago school teacher strike, I would like to quote a few paragraphs from a Wall Street Journal article from February of 2007. Five years ago.“Who, on average, is better paid – public school teachers or architects? How about…
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February 1, 2006
How much credit does Alan Greenspan deserve for Americas economic
success over the past 18 years? Answer: a lot, but nowhere near all.
I mean no slight to Mr. Greenspan. Indeed, the…
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December 30, 2008
A fellow is ballooning in New Mexico. He miscalculates the wind, somehow floats into a wind-stream that carries him so high he passes out from lack of oxygen, then deposits him out in the middle of the desert. He comes to, disoriented and lost, but…
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December 17, 2008
On Sunday, Dec. 14, “Good Morning America” devoted about 10 minutes to a segment about the theft of baby Jesus statues from nativity scenes on church lawns. As they pointed out, these thefts are not a new crime. In fact, once the subject of an…
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December 10, 2008
A new TV program, loosely swiped from a TV show of long ago, debuts tonight on Fox. As I understand it, in “The Secret Millionaire” we will see millionaires go undercover, work for a week in some poorly paid job and live as the oppressed…
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December 3, 2008
Investment analyst John Rutledge on Nov. 22 offered “Forbes on Fox” the most succinct argument in favor of divided government I’ve heard: if a mugger is chasing you, you hope he’s slow. President Obama, the Pelosians and other Dems in full,…
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November 26, 2008
Have you noticed that the media largely fail to connect the dots between related events?
In all the reporting on the auto industry’s ills, little is said about the government as the chief cause. Politicians holler at auto executives in…
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November 19, 2008
The news media have, for two weeks, endlessly expressed outrage at AIG’s spending several hundred thousand dollars on a sales conference held at a Phoenix resort – after getting federal bailout billions. The impression conveyed has been that…