How Progressives Kill Jobs. You Can’t Make This Stuff Up.

by | Nov 1, 2012

In this and the next post we will examine two specific ways that our Progressive government destroys jobs by making our businesses more costly than their international competitors.  Those added costs reduce profits, thereby decreasing investment and crippling new job...

What I Wish Someone Told Me When I Graduated from College

by | Oct 22, 2012

Last week I had the great pleasure of meeting with an HonorsCollegeclass at AuburnUniversity on the topic of What I Wish Someone Told Me When I Graduated from College. The students were, as you would expect, bright, engaged and vocal. I had a list of items from my...

The Wise Don

by | Oct 7, 2012

For the past month a store at the retail center where we’ve shopped for years has displayed prominent signs stating “Going Out Business—Everything For Sale”. So yesterday I went in to say good-bye to Don, one of the employees who has frequently helped me select the...

Bond Servants

by | Sep 26, 2012

In The President, which I wrote eighteen years ago, there is an African-American pastor who laments how the federal government has become the world’s largest plantation, keeping Black Americans down. Now, sadly, all Americans of every color are being driven to lives...

I Wish

by | Sep 14, 2012

I wish that Mitt Romney were not a Mormon.  I don’t agree with a lot of his faith’s teaching, but every Mormon I’ve known has been a servant-leader, committed to family, decency, and individual liberty. So given all that I will point out below, that is the least...