April 27, 2012

The Green Jobs Fallacy

Van Jones recently spoke at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, PA.  His speech and the audience's reaction demonstrated just how easily deceived intelligent and well educated people can be.  The well dressed college professor...

March 7, 2012

Just The Facts, Please

Our nation was founded on the premises of the 17th century philosopher, John Locke that our basic rights are God given and that ordinary citizens are capable of self governance.  The primary role of government is to protect those rights.  T...

January 20, 2012

Fiscal Fraud

The original claim of the Occupy Whatever Street (OWS) movement, that large banks got a bailout while middle class America struggled as the result of high unemployment, had merit.    However, that legitimate grievance was cast aside as...

April 5, 2011

The Real Issues in Wisconsin

Labor unions are trying to portray the actions in Wisconsin as the destruction of the middle class.  However, this is rhetoric, not fact. The actions in Wisconsin actually help the middle class by allowing union members and the taxpayers a great...

February 8, 2010

A regime of resentment

In 1980, Ronald Reagan ushered in a new era of optimism and prosperity. By reducing the burden of taxation and allowing ordinary Americans to achieve their potential, we ended an era of rampant inflation and produced a decade of prosperity. By purs...

September 27, 2009

Stimulating Our Way to Depression

In 1932, FDR had an opportunity to change the conventional way that governments deal with a recession.  His predecessor, Herbert Hoover, who also had a tendency towards central planning, had started the process.  Instead of allowing markets...