Things We Like #4: Parenting By The Book

For this post, it’s really someone we like. Over the past several months we have been instructed by John Rosemond on four occasions.  He has incredibly relevant insights on parenting, which everyone should consider. John is a licensed family psychologist who calls...

How Will the President Grow the Economy from the Bottom Up?

President Obama has recently said that he wants to grow our economy from the “Bottom Up”.  But exactly what does he mean, and how does that work? I suppose that he could be promoting the Keynesian saw of giving free money to people who don’t pay income taxes at the...

How To Stop Our Runaway Spending

Conservatives from key states recently voted for subsidies to sugar farmers.  Realtors demand mortgage subsidies despite the disaster of the housing finance bubble. Food Stamps are advertised on TV as a “benefit” that you don’t want to miss, and now an astounding one...

The Greecehopper and the Ants

For those of a certain age, this Disney video will be familiar. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wM1DgihKHVI. Please give it a watch. For an individual, household, city, or sovereign nation, it really is not much more complicated than this. With so much practical good...

The President’s Credit Rating

The President is out on the campaign trail taking credit for the late, slow, economic recovery that we are finally experiencing. It’s like a delivery room doctor claiming that without him or her, there could be no baby. In fact, to add some extra hyperbole, it’s even...

The Morning After Pill for Obamacare

I’m not sure how the Catholic Church’s revolt against its principles being trampled by the central government will play out.  But here is a reflection. As simply as I can understand it, Obama’s first position was: Here is what you have to do, whether you like it or...

Things We Like #3

We just returned from our third overnight trip on Amtrak, and we have enjoyed every minute of each trip. It is so relaxing to travel from city center to city center without long taxi rides, security lines, uncertain waits, weather worries, sardine seats, and no food....

The Light of Christmas

The first Christmas was God’s intervention in human events with His plan for our salvation–easily the most important event in history.  The Light came into the darkness. Christmas led to Christ’s death and resurrection–the once-for-all atonement for our...

Economic Democracy

Any method of allocating resources other than the free market price system ultimately leads to tyranny. Yet the Occupy Wall Street Non-Leaders, presumably opposed to tyranny, have said many times that they want a “democratic economy”. There simply is no such thing....