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...

Things We Like #4: Parenting By The Book

by | Aug 31, 2012

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?

by | Jul 21, 2012

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

by | Jun 27, 2012

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

by | May 25, 2012

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...