The Marshall Plan vs. Obama-and-Out
Last weekend I attended a Marshall Scholar event in Washington. The Scholarship was establishd in 1954 by the British government as a thank you to the American people for the Marshall Plan after World War II. On Sunday I walked down to the World War II Memorial....
Why Don’t Progressives Recognize Their Policies’ Failures and Change? Part 2 of 2
Continuing from my previous post: Why don't progressives/statists/elitists see these enormous problems and costs which damage most of us and say, “You know, we’ve tried this for fifty years and it hasn’t worked. Let’s at least consider something else.”? The Answer A...
Why Don’t Progressives Recognize Their Policies’ Failures and Change? Part 1 of 2
Background Let’s start with two irrefutable laws that always govern no matter how much wishful thinking is thrown at them: 1. Resources—labor, capital, natural resources, time--are always limited and must always be allocated in some way. Allocation by price is...
Islamists as Pac-Men
If you wonder what militant Islamists intend for Europe and the U.S., look no further than the public schools in Birmingham, England. Almost unreported here is the attempted takeover of eighteen state schools by those wishing to push the Islamist agenda, including...
When the Facts Don’t Add Up, Make Up Stories and Call Them Facts
Timothy Egan’s Op-Ed piece in The New York Times, of March 15, 2014, entitled “Paul Ryan’s Irish Amnesia”, tries to link 19th century English complicity in the Irish potato famine to Paul Ryan’s concerns about creating multi-generational government dependency in...
Truth Has Consequences: Women and Men are Different
I’m beginning a series on common sense truths which are real, and which therefore have negative consequences when we ignore them or try to pretend that they don’t exist. The following is written with two assumptions in mind: The vast majority of women and men in the...
An Alternate “State of the Union” Preamble
In recognition of President Obama's State of the Union address, I'd like to share with you the very different approach of President William Harrison in my novel, The President, written almost twenty years ago. Enjoy. State of the Union Preamble
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This post originally appeared as a guest post by Parker Hudson at MichaelYoussef.com on December 16, 2013. It is particularly relevant to the fictional story told in Enemy In The Room. Since I am occasionally critical of our President’s foreign policies, I have...
Vote For Me and You Can Stay On Your Parents’ Health Plan
It’s a benefit I’m giving to you. And I’m doing good stuff for millions of other folks, too. It’s all free, paid for by your parents and the huge insurance companies. Feels great, doesn’t it! Well, yes, we actually did have to cancel your parents’ plan. It wasn’t...
Things We Like #5: Today’s Challenge
I knew that getting older there would be challenges, but I had not anticipated this one. Today I had to estimate how many incandescent light bulbs to buy so that we can read in bed and light our den until we croak. The NannyState has outlawed them. So, being...
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