Why Not Try Healthcare Vouchers?

Why Not Try Healthcare Vouchers?

The healthcare delivery and payment debacle of the previous decades, brought to a head with the passage and current dismantling of Obamacare, lead us to find an alternative that might actually work. As neither a doctor nor a politician, but as a student of economics,...
Freedom of Worship Pushes Secularist Victory

Freedom of Worship Pushes Secularist Victory

One guaranteed way to win an argument is to insure that your opponent never has any input into the debate.  The secular lock-out of religious input into the public square has been gaining strength for decades, but now the pace of this discrimination is rapidly...
Effective Command and Control–There is No Plan B

Effective Command and Control–There is No Plan B

When the next major terrorist attack, natural disaster, or widespread power/water failure occurs—and at least one certainly will in the foreseeable future—effective command and control will be crucial for fighting back and implementing countermeasures.  The terrible...
What We Don’t See is Killing Us

What We Don’t See is Killing Us

Henry Hazlitt was a great Economist.  As I first mentioned nine months ago, Hazlitt wrote Economics in One Lesson in 1946, then updated in 1978.  It reads like today’s news, because it is filled with economic truth, not political or editorial wishful thinking. Members...
Race Relations: There is Only One Relation that Matters

Race Relations: There is Only One Relation that Matters

We will never have proper race relations until we recognize the fundamental role of God, try as we might with programs, laws, textbooks, pundits and cable news town halls After all, He is the Creator of us all.  If we have a common Father, then we are all brothers and...
Who or What Will Fill the Leadership Void in Our Nation?

Who or What Will Fill the Leadership Void in Our Nation?

As we approach the 237th anniversary of July 4, 1776, I have several disparate but related thoughts.  We are a young nation. It seems impossible to me, but in just my sixty-six years I have lived through over one quarter of our nation’s history.  If you trace back...
The Russians and Us

The Russians and Us

  A recent event causes me to write again about a subject which I first posted on in September, 2010: The Russians and Us.  Having lived and worked in Moscow on and off for twenty-two years, last month’s end to our Cathedrals in the Kremlincompany’s five year...

Facilities Fees Facilitate Big Government

Whenever Big Government and Big Business show up arm-in-arm to “help”—run. That is a small but important part of what is happening in Health Care today.  Hospitals are, with funds provided exclusively to them by the government, buying up private doctors’ practices all...

Intentional Faith

Last week Mark Tidwell spoke at Ken Boa’s Bible Study in Atlanta.  Please, when you have forty-two minutes, watch Mark’s talk at https://www.kenboa.org/video/2013-01-30-wed/–nothing I could write today will have the impact of Mark’s story.  And he has a powerful...