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 […]
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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.
Grateful Dead: ‘Fare Thee Well’
The Wall Street Journal’s Speakeasy wrote up the first show of the Grateful Dead’s five show, farewell tour. The Grateful Dead returned to the stage last night for the first of five reunion shows over the next week. The band has been rehearsing together for the last several months for what they’re billing as their final performances together, […]
Dave Hammer: Way Down on the Swanee
Originally posted July 1, 2015.
Affordable Care Act Delusions
You know, it is just astounding how affordable anything can be when your tab is picked up by another American. Barack Hussein Obama and six unelected, black-robed political captives at the Supreme Court have saddled Americans with a third-world health-care system that is quite simply a dead-end street. Thanks to Obama and the “big six,” […]