A very simple thing to remember about government, spending, and taxes.
It is not the taxes we pay that are the true cost of government, but instead, the resources diverted from use elsewhere are the true cost of government.Think of that when you read about a hair-brained...
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Poverty and Resourcefulness
Looking at the picture below, I don't know which is sadder. Is it that in Thailand incomes are so low that the best means of surviving flood waters is to tie empty water bottles together in order to...
View ArticleA special shoutout . . .
. . . to Master Sergeant Private Clark for prompting me to post more often.
View ArticleThe Irony of a Trucker Protest
Apparently some truckers are protesting by assembling in Washington, DC and attempting to tie up traffic.No major traffic delays were reported on the Beltway during Friday’s morning commute, police...
View ArticleScott Adams On Why Failure Is Necessary for Success
Read it here. If a readable link doesn't pop up, Google the title, "Scott Adams' Secret of Success: Failure"One funny excerpt.Nietzsche famously said, "What doesn't kill us makes us stronger." It...
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Might this be a reason for why people enrolling in ACA has been so low?
Reports have emerged recently of the failure of the Affordable Care Act (i.e., Obamacare) to gain a large turnout of people enrolling in health care exchanges during the first two weeks they've been...
View ArticleThe First Rule of Leadership
The NSA spying scandal is becoming more of a black eye every day. The most recent revelations that the NSA has been spying on its allies, including German Chancelor Angela Merkel before she even became...
View ArticleJon Stewart Interviews Debbie Wasserman Schultz - Hmmm?
Jon Stewart interviews Debbie Wasserman Schultz. (See video below.)First, I love the use of the phrase, "We need real people." What she means by"we," of course, is people who believe in more...
View Article"Tell me about the whale."
"Yeah, I'll tell you about the whale. That's a story I'll never forget."A good lesson of strict liability. Hilarious! HT: Carolynn
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More Complete Information Regarding the Jobs Report
Data released today shows that 203,000 new jobs were created in the United States in November and that the unemployment rate fell to 7%, it's lowest level in five years. Here is a graph of civilian...
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What Is Wrong With Government Schooling?
Driving to campus a few weeks ago, I was listening to a free iTunes song that my son had been listening to. We have very similar tastes in music, so I like to listen to music he has an interest in, and...
View ArticleAmazon turns to crowdsourcing to answer a question.
I received an email from Amazon.com asking me the following:As someone who owns Schlage F10ACC619 Accent..., can you help this fellow customer?[Name Withheld] asks"what is the difference between...
View ArticleThe Minimum Wage: Some Facts, One Addition, and One Correction
Jeffrey Dorfman offers some good insight into the minimum wage and who actually earns relatively low wages.That leaves only about 1.1 percent of all workers over 25 and 0.8 percent of all Americans...
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Selling Cupcakes to Illustrate Gender Wage Inequality
The Aquinas College Jane Hibbard Idema Women's Studies Center is having a bake sale to raise awarness of the fact that women are discriminated in the workplace by the fact that women earn just 77¢ for...
View ArticleUnderstanding Simple Basic Principles of Economics
From a report issued by the Congressional Budget Office yesterday comes some disturibing news about the effect the ACA is expected to have on employment.Principle #2: People respond to incentives.The...
View ArticleWhy Do Stalin and Other Socialists Get a Free Pass for Murdering Tens of...
During a deposition to a lawsuit, a representative for the Virginia Division of Motor Vehicles was asked by the plaintiff's attorney if someone could have "COMMIE" printed on his or her vanity license...
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Mega Millions Surreptitiously Raises the Price of Its Game
If I want to increase my profit for an existing product I have one of two ways of doing so: raise the nominal price, or reduce the size of my product. If a candy company currently prices its candy bar...
View ArticleRepresentative John Dingell To Retire . . . and he's not happy with Washington
Another Congressman is retiring and laments the acrimony in the House today relative to some idealized past. Dingell told the Detroit News he finds "serving in the House to be obnoxious" and that "it's...
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