July 9, 2011

Living Bastiat

Like many of you, I have been living through Bastiat's economic arguments, and I would like to relate them here from a personal, rather than philosophical, perspective.  This helps make things more tangible, since the best teachable moments are ...

July 17, 2009

Pushing Faith out of Politics

The push to separate faith and politics should be one that is all-inclusive and is not limited to merely the Abrahamic faiths. Faith is the belief of something when there is no proof, and doing so with a strong conviction. One has to admit that it w...

July 6, 2009

No HAPI Ending

The respect the federal government has for the American electorate, at least the amount it shows, has reached a new low.   The Healthy Americans Private Insurance plan, which incidentally goes by the acronym "HAPI," is the new plan the federal g...

June 28, 2009

America's Socialist Past

There seems to be a need in American society to have to relearn the same hard lessons over and over again, regardless of whether the results were seen on the other side of the planet or suffered through by our own people. We're living in a country th...

June 12, 2009

Obama's Missed Opportunity

President Obama's recent speech in Cairo was a great example of a missed opportunity to change the course of history.   Obama is a great speaker. While not great off-the-cuff, where he's prone to uhm's and uh's, his prepared speeches draw in mil...