With one in four adults unemployed and half of its young people out of work, who is going to pay for the fat pensions and cradle-to-grave welfare benefits that many Greek citizens consider a human right? Furthermore, who in Greece would want to work? According to the Cato Institute’s Alan Reynolds, the cascade of taxes […]
Archives for July 2015
The West Must Stop Intervening
Michael Scheuer, former CIA bin Laden unit chief, offers a number of options for the West, among them, this: The West must stop intervening in a region where it has consistently armed, funded, and backed tyranny for more than sixty years, and let Muslims sort out such problems as Israel, methods of governing, and sectarian […]
Congratulations U.S, Women’s Soccer
Has Warren Buffett Lost His Mind?
Originally posted May 21, 2015. Leave it to good ole’ Warren Buffett to create a stir. In a recent op-ed in The Wall Street Journal, he calls for an expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) to help low-income workers. How about a reduction in the size of government instead Mr. Buffett? Let workers keep […]
Happy Independence Day!
How to Buy a Boat: Part II
Once you decide you want a boat you need to decide what kind of boat: Power or Sail. I have a ton of memories from sailing as a kid. One that stands out is a re-occurring daydream I’d have. It would often happen while we were sailing out in what felt like the middle of […]
America “Disunited and Divided”
Pat Buchanan asks, “Are the ten commandments and Christian tradition and Natural Law as defined by Aquinas just fine for their time, but not for ours?” Pat continues: If what Justice Kennedy wrote Friday represents moral truth, what can be said in defense of a Christianity that has taught for 2,000 years that homosexual acts […]
The American Empire Should Be Destroyed
James D. Heiser, bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Diocese of North America, writes on, as Dr. Robert Zubrin (president, Pioneer Astronautics and Pioneer Energy) calls it, “The dangerous dogma of the man who has become Putin’s Rasputin.” Who was Grigori Rasputin? Born in 1869, Rasputin was a Russian peasant, mystical faith healer, and a trusted […]
Public Servants or Public Masters?
The foundation of America’s freedom is the U.S. Constitution, which states that the federal government has only those powers specifically granted to it by the Constitution. All other powers belong either to the states or to the people themselves. SCOTUS, in its decision to uphold ObamaCare, ignored the actual words of the law—the words written […]
Browning Shotgun
If you get a chance to shoot sporting clays with a Browning over-under shotgun, take-it.
- « Previous Page
- 1
- …
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- Next Page »