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“A government is the most dangerous threat to man’s rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.” Ayn Rand

The Tipping Point

We are at a tipping point. The point at which the weight shifts and everything crashes down one way or the other.  In fact, the rancor in Washington DC over the 2011 AND 2012 budgets is because both Democrats and Republicans realize we are at this point. On the right,...

The Unkindest Cut

So the Federal government spent eight times what it took in in revenue during March! But Nancy Pelosi says if we cut anything from the budget, seniors and children will starve. Seniors and children are outraged!!!! Not about budget cuts but that Nancy Pelosi thinks...

What’s Wrong With This Picture?

I hear a lot of frustration from people who watched as President Obama went to Brazil and encouraged them to drill for oil, promising we would buy from them, all the while the deep-water wells in the Gulf of Mexico are idle and we aren’t drilling off Florida and...

Stop the merry-go-round; I want to get off

By 2050, three Federal programs, Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, will take all the tax revenue that the government collects, according to a study by the Cato Institute (article). That means every other activity of the government, from the president’s...

What If They Gave A Protest and Nobody Came?

Since America has gotten involved in the Libyan civil war, the streets of American cities have been full of left-wing anti-war demonstrators reminiscent of the demonstrations against Iraq during the Bush Administration. Oh, wait.  No they haven’t. Which is...

Mixed Emotions

I’ll admit right off the bat that I have mixed emotions about the entry of US and “coalition forces” into the Libyan civil war. First, there’s no question that Qadaffi is a bad actor.  He’s a military dictator, an admitted state...

The Miracle Car Nobody Wants

The Chevrolet Volt was hailed as the new paradigm in environmentally friendly transportation.  It was THE justification for the Federal government’s bailout/takeover of General Motors, which had for decades been America’s largest corporation.  The first...

Fiddling (around) While the World Burns

Barack Obama revealed his picks for the Final Four this week.  I’m certainly glad the waiting is over! I’m so glad he didn’t waste time encouraging Congress to get an actual budget done. He also didn’t waste time on that pesky Libyan civil...

Defending the Taxpayers of Wisconsin

The Republicans outsmarted the Democrats in the Wisconsin state senate by voting to strip the intransigent unions of certain “rights” including collective bargaining.  They were able to do this without a quorum by removing all the funding elements from the...