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 alternative to effective communication will be increased destruction and increased loss of life. A hundred years ago, command and control was not so important or so complex. Individuals and communities were much more...
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 of Congress, the President, and practicing journalists should all be required to memorize the following excerpt from Chapter 15: “In studying the effects of any given economic proposal we must trace not merely the immediate...
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 over the country. The government gives big hospitals an extra fee advantage that no one else has. They use this extra income to drive private doctors out of practice, resulting in fewer doctors, no competition, and higher fees...
[Thanks to Rowland Cocks at Men’s Fraternity for pointing me in this direction.] This Tuesday will be the 40th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Roe vs. Wade ruling, and I very much appreciate President Obama’s words in preparation for the anniversary, mourning that tragic ruling. “I think about … the life that lay ahead of her. And most of all, I think about how when it comes to protecting the most vulnerable among us, we must act now. “So what we should be thinking about is our...
This week the Vice President rounded up the usual suspects and held Gun Control Task Force meetings with gun control advocates, opponents, and the entertainment industry. I wish that he had also asked for input from Gil Kerlikowske, the White House’s Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, known as the Drug Czar, but I doubt it. Where did all the guns come from that we now want to try to control? Why are our towns and cities awash in guns? Why are gangs advancing into what...
Looking forward from the November election, I have these thoughts, by category. Spiritual It’s hard to imagine a better summary than Randy Alcorn’s article in his Eternal Perspectives Ministries current newsletter. He reminds us that we "vote" every day by our choices and our actions. And that as important as America is, there is an eternal perspective that is even more important. https://www.epm.org/resources/2012/Nov/7/post-election-perspectives/ National Economics How can we not have...
Imagine you are the CEO of a large U.S.-based company with operations in several countries. You have to decide whether to keep your company and many of its high-paying jobs in the U.S. in 2013, or move overseas. The move, along with reducing U.S.jobs, would also reduce tax revenue for our local, state and federal governments.You have a lot to consider, but one key issue is the level of taxes that your company must pay. Even if your company retains its home address in the U.S.for another...
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 creation. Of course when they kill jobs, they also diminish tax revenue for our local, state and federal governments. Every U.S. public company which reports to the Securities and Exchange Commission must now implement a new...
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 of servitude by and under that same government. The definition of a bond servant in the dictionary is one who works for no wages, often under duress. As I pointed out in the previous post, with today’s level of government debt (no...
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 important of my wishes. I wish there were fewer extremists in both parties, but now I’m trying to make the best of the actual choice before us this November of Romney/Ryan or Obama/Biden. Along with more centrist Republicans (of which...
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