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November 21, 2006
Thanksgiving in America is a time of traditions – turkey and dressing, gathering around the table, watching football and seeing schoolchildren dressed up as Pilgrims and Indians, reenacting the first Thanksgiving. One of the most fascinating…
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October 18, 2006
When we were kids, network anchors like Walter Cronkite read us news each night like parents telling stories. But as we’ve grown older, the nightly news stories have transformed into grim fairy tales about some terrifying threat to you and me…
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April 11, 2007
If you’re getting a tax refund this year, you’re probably excited. How will you use the money? Save it for a rainy-day pizza party? Upgrade your basic cable TV? If you didn’t get a refund, you’ll especially want to read on.
Funny how big…
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February 21, 2007
I’m an American, and I believe passionately in freedom. I believe in the individual pursuit of happiness. So it troubles me when my president wants to take that away and starts sounding like a socialist.
In a socialist society, no one…
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January 16, 2008
Immediately after the Iowa Straw Poll last August, the noted and respected journalist George Will referred to the FairTax believers who supported Mike Huckabee as “those FairTax people.”
He made it sound as if the people who helped…
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October 14, 2010
Despite the current pressure of economic hardships that all citizens are feeling, the government decided to take another shot at consumers Wednesday.
USA Today Reports “the government said Wednesday that gasoline now may contain up to 15% ethanol…
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October 7, 2010
It’s a tough choice between Pepsi and Gatorade. I don’t know how to choose. Let’s have the government decide!
On ABC’s “The View,” Oct. 7, a segment addressed New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s proposal to ban the use of food stamps to…
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September 28, 2010
The mainstream media is always hungry for a story about how the duplicity and greed of big bad corporations harms innocent consumers. Throw children into the mix and just try to stop a network anchor from breathlessly relaying the whole, sordid…
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September 28, 2010
It’s not quite “earth shaking,” but we can be sure it caused a tremor at the National Education Association office in downtown D.C.
On Sept.27, President Obama admitted on NBC’s “Today” show that Washington, D.C.’s “struggling” public schools…