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...
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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....
Size Matters
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...
Tinkering With Business
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...
I’ve Read Good Essays, but This May Be the Bastiat
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...
Perfection or Freedom?
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...
How is the U.S. to be a Christian Nation?
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...
The Addictors: How Much Pain?
I am wrestling with and may change my position on legalizing drugs, which I never would have imagined just a few years ago. Let me explain. Addictions, when acted upon, usually hurt people, cost a lot, and destroy relationships. The worst addictors today appear to be...
The Time Bomb of a Nation without Fathers
Over the last several years I’ve worried about the underappreciated critical value of fathers to families, but a recent experience has multiplied that concern exponentially. Up until now I’ve been concerned about two situations: 1. In societies where multiple current...
2020 Vision: How to Fix the Next Ten Years in Ten Steps: Step Ten
10. Enact term limits for the House and Senate of three consecutive terms, to eliminate the current tendency toward a permanent political class which is out of touch with the rest of the nation.
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