Archive for April 2011
To Believe Or Not To Believe, That is The Question
I have noticed that people tend to believe what Barack Obama says when they want to believe him, and those same people conveniently ignore the things he says that they don’t want to believe. Well, that’s not unusual. Most of us believe what we want to believe and ignore the rest. For example, when people…
Read MoreWho’s Making A Killing In Gasoline Sales?
Well, let’s see. ExxonMobile maybe? Here’s what they say on the ExxonMobile Perspectives Blog….wait, what is this blog? It’s a blog by ExxonMobile that, as they themselves say it, “offers our company’s views on the issues, policies, technologies and trends that are shaping the energy industry.” This is refreshing. ExxonMobile is not going to hide…
Read MoreGas Pump Sticky Note Campaign
From Doug Ross, some notes you can print out and tape them to the gas pump next time you fill up:
Read MoreThe War Against Walmart — “We Don’t Want No Stinking Low Prices For Stuff We Buy Everyday!”
New York City Councilwoman Christine Quinn argues that for every two jobs Walmart creates three jobs are lost in the same neighborhood. Steve Malanga of The Manhattan Institute points out that this is the problem 19th Century French economist Frederic Bastiat explored: It is the seen versus the unseen. The seen is the businesses that…
Read MoreKeynes vs. Hayek Duke It Out
Keynes: Government should just spend, spend, spend and we’ll all be rich and prosperous. Hayek: Government has no money to spend without taking it away from someone else. It’s like dipping water out of one end of a swimming pool and pouring it into the other end. Prosperity only comes from economic growth that produces…
Read MoreObama Releases Birth Certificate
Trump 1, Obama 0 Obama may think he’s quelled the controversy but a lot of people wonder why it took so long and are still going to think he’s a shady character. They remember what he said during his campaign, that his administration was going to be “the most open and transparent in history.” Also,…
Read MoreWho or What Is Responsible For High Gasoline Prices?
The average price of regular around the country was $1.80 when Obama took office. It’s around $3.80 today. What’s the cause? Obama says it’s greedy oil companies making record profits, or speculators, or us because we drive too much and we don’t own the right cars. Reality is different. Consider this: On July 11, 2008…
Read MoreTexas Governor Rick Perry Is The Real Deal
Kevin Williiamson has a must read piece on Rick Perry at National Review Online. Here are a few nuggets: “Rick Perry has a complicated relationship with the Bushes, which is to say that he’s hesitant to criticize them and they hate his guts.” All the more reason to like Rick Perry, in my view. When…
Read MoreHappy Easter!
In varying ways they realized the new wonder; but even they hardly realized that the world had died in the night. What they were looking at was the first day of a new creation, with a new heaven and a new earth; and in a semblance of the gardener God walked again in the garden,…
Read MoreMore DUI Convictions Thrown Out Because of Defective Breathalyzers
I’m a broken record on this but I will say it again: DUI laws are a horrible injustice because convictions are based on blood alcohol levels and not actual impairment. That’s important because when it comes to human physiological reaction to alcohol all are not the same and impairment among individuals occurs at different levels…
Read MoreHere’s Why It Is So Hard To Get Politicians to Cut Government Spending
James Buchanan, now in his 90’s, won the Nobel Prize in Economics several years ago for his work in “public choice theory” which is sometimes called the economics of politics. It holds that when people get elected to public office they continue to act in what they perceive to be their own interest and not…
Read MoreI’m Not a Birther — Am I?
Because I know that “birthers” are kooks I swear I’m not one of them. I should not even bring up the fact that Obama refuses to release his original birth certificate because that alone could make me a kook or at least “sorta nutty” in the eyes of some people. But then there is this.…
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