Useless Myths: Daylight Savings Time and Groundhog Day
For many of us, tired from a long and dreary winter – and this past one has seemed longer and drearier than most – Daylight Savings Time throws us back on our heels.
Author: David Applegate
Featured · Legal Affairs · Liberty · Politics
Presidents Day and ‘The Decline of the Republican Spirit’
When then-candidate Barack Obama was running for president on a platform of hope and change, most Americans probably didn’t think he had in mind the loss of individual freedoms and[...]
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Dumber and Number: The Destructive Pursuit of Fixing Income Inequality
The only way to permanently rid a society of a ‘gap’ in either wealth or income is by making everybody equally poor. If nobody has any more wealth than anybody else, then nobody can be ‘wealthy.’
Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Legal Affairs
Bean Bag Justice?
Tax evasion is of course illegal, but tax avoidance is not.
A Bridge Too Far: Chris Christie and the Abuse of Power
Taking their cue from their brusque and combative boss, Christie’s aides obviously let their limited power overwhelm their good judgment, assuming they ever had any.
Economics · Featured · Liberty · Politics · Random
Them vs. Us
With all the talk of America’s forgotten middle class, it’s worth taking time as we begin a new year to consider that the country’s seeming obsession with wealth and inequality may instead be turning the U. S. into a country with only two classes: the governed and the governing.
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured · Politics
Wealth, Inequality, and Pope Francis
Once one properly understands wealth, it makes absolutely no sense for governments, churches, or other institutions to think they can make the world or the country better off by confiscating wealth from some people and giving it to others.
Environment/Energy · Featured · Government
Washington versus Washington
Could it be that people who have learned to rely on themselves instead of their government are better equipped to deal with natural disasters and adversity when they occur?
Executive Branch Trampling on Privacy, Freedom of the Press
It’s a sobering thought that the executive branch has brought eight leak-related prosecutions in the past five years compared to only three under our Constitution’s previous 221.
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured
Another Day Older and Deeper in Debt …
A nation that has not adopted a proper budget in years…still has no meaningful control over ongoing expenses, accumulated debt, or a plan for dealing with either.
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured · Health Care · Politics
Common Sense: An Immodest Proposal for Funding the Government
With the words “government shutdown” on every news commentator’s lips these days, it’s time for a little – in Thomas Paine’s famous phrase – common sense. First, let’s put things[...]
Some Thoughts on Constitution Day
Today the White House occupant announces that he’d prefer to wait for Congress but that in these “not normal” times he needs to do things himself.
Sauce for the Goose
Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court Judge Kevin Brobson’s recent ruling lets boys play on high school girls’ sports teams – at least for now.
Featured · Legal Affairs · Politics
‘So Far Out on a Limb It’s Pathetic’
What happens when Congress is not in session and the Commander-in-Chief is AWOL? You get Syria.
A Tale of Red and Blue
No one’s liberty or property is safe when the legislature is in session, and freedom is lost one government program at a time. Yet some people will trade freedom for comfort, especially when they perceive that someone else is footing the bill.
Featured · Legal Affairs · Politics
State Secrets: Huma Abedin’s Ambiguous Role
The State Department has now joined ranks with the NSA, the IRS, and the Justice Department as important government agencies in which the public is rapidly losing trust.
Featured · Legal Affairs · Politics
Blind Justice?
A jury has indeed spoken, but it remains unclear that we remain a nation of laws and not of men.
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