1981 was a heady time, and Robert Hardaway looks back with appreciation. In his article on the Fox News website, The war on baby boomers, Hardaway notes that when Ronald Reagan became president, it was possible for a retiring worker who had a sum (by my calculation, $1 million, or …
Someone told me that Aristotle didn’t care whether government was by a single ruler, a group of rulers, or the people, but that each form of government had a corrupt version, when the ruling class used its power to make government do its bidding. So, a single ruler becomes a …
Stephen B. Presser, responding to today’s Supreme Court decision in Liberty lost? The Supreme Court punts, makes some very cogent points about what government is and ought to be in demonstrating how unconstitutional Obamacare is. Invoking King James I of England more than 400 years ago, Presser asserts that even for …
A colleague of mine experienced our health care system at its best over the last couple of days. In light of the coming Supreme Court decision on the efficacy of Obamacare, it is instrumental to relate his experience, since if Obamacare were to be upheld, the experiences we have with …
Robert Reich gets it wrong again, in Why Republicans Worry About Hurting Corporate Feelings. He takes Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to task for insisting, in a speech to the American Enterprise Institute, that we should not force corporations to disclose to the public the campaign contributions they make to …
Amy Payne engages in precision critical thinking in examining President Obama’s approach to the auto bailout in Morning Bell: Auto Bailout Was Really Just a UAW Bailout. The auto bailout included $25 billion agreed to by the Bush administration, and an additional $55 billion under the Obama administration. Steven Rattner was …
Robert Reich writes pointless left-wing polemics because he does not understand science, society, and human nature. His fetish with the middle class, and his notion that they are the backbone of the nation is quite wearying. He laments, in Why The Economy Can’t Get Out of First Gear, that economic …
Ilya Shapiro and his readers make some great points in his article on yesterday’s Wall Street Journal Opinion page, Why Obama Strikes Out In Court. In what he calls “the Obama administration’s increasingly extreme claims on behalf of unlimited federal power,” Shapiro cites 3 Supreme Court rulings whose votes were …
As next Tuesday’s primary approaches, it would be wise to take heed of the warning from Ann Coulter. In today’s article, GOP Whistling Past the End of America, Coulter writes about the Wisconsin recall and the danger to America if the public employee unions manage to defeat Governor Scott Walker. …
The New York Times has an interesting juxtaposition of articles in yesterday’s edition. One, Billionaire Finds New Role in Effort to Defeat Obama, was about Joe Ricketts and both his backing of a movie based on Dinesh D’Souza’s book The Roots of Obama’s Rage and his considering a $10 million …
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