Post Election Thoughts

Looking forward from the November election, I have these thoughts, by category. Spiritual It’s hard to imagine a better summary than Randy Alcorn’s article in his Eternal Perspectives Ministries current newsletter.  He reminds us that we “vote” every day...

How Progressives Kill Jobs, Part 2.

Imagine you are the CEO of a large U.S.-based company with operations in several countries.  You have to decide whether to keep your company and many of its high-paying jobs in the U.S. in 2013, or move overseas.  The move, along with reducing U.S.jobs, would also...

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

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

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

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...