by Parker Hudson | Jan 31, 2012
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....
by Parker Hudson | Dec 25, 2011
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...
by Parker Hudson | Dec 8, 2011
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....
by Parker Hudson | Nov 12, 2011
I believe that many of our worst and very real problems are caused by the size of government, some businesses and some unions—they are all too big. Economies of Scale make sense, to a point. But Too Big to Fail, or close to it, makes no sense. Because then the...
by Parker Hudson | Oct 12, 2011
When I was a graduate student in London right after the earth cooled, 1968-1970, Harold Wilson was the Prime Minister, and Keynesian Economics ruled his Labor Party from Cambridge. At London School of Economics the teaching was more ChicagoSchool, so our professors...
by Parker Hudson | Sep 18, 2011
Thanks to a personal introduction from Gene Tullio (https://facebook.com/gtullio1), I’ve discovered the French economic philosopher Frederic Bastiat and his great work, The Law, originally published in 1850. As with my late-in-life reading of F. A. Hayek, I am...
by Parker Hudson | Aug 31, 2011
It’s amazing how important worldview can be. Take the secular vs. the Judeo-Christian view of bad behavior and unfairly advancing self, family or friends. The secular worldview, if it were honest, would not criticize such selfish behavior, because if we are just...
by Parker Hudson | Aug 17, 2011
On a lighter note, trying to mow down grass instead of bad ideas, we really like our Fiskars Momentum Reel Mower. It actually cuts grass without an engine! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQa9ZDbyXsw If you have never seen or used a reel (as in fishing “reel”) mower,...
by Parker Hudson | Jul 23, 2011
As noted in previous posts, there are several facets to the U.S. being a Christian nation, and here I want to focus on how the U.S. should be Christian nation. I ask the question: at the beginning of the twenty-first century, how should we live? The same way as the...
by Parker Hudson | Jul 4, 2011
In a December post I gave both general and specific reasons why I am certain that the Founders of this nation clearly intended for its laws and its society to be founded on Judeo-Christian principles. And that they expected the unhindered propagation of Christian...
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