Modesty always represents fraud. Either people are wrong about how great you are, or you are pretending not think you're great, or you're wrong about how non-great you are.
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The proposed Health Care “Reform” law includes, apparently, the taxpayer funding of abortion somewhere in its thousands of pages. But many taxpayers believe abortion is murder.Abortion ...more
Yes, whenever the sagging economy comes up, or the foreign quagmires, Obama blames Bush. And certain talk show hosts have defensive hysterics over that.But, unlike neocons at Fox and on the radio, ...more
The actual problem with our failing health care system is that consumers have no control over it. Already, too much is paid for by middlemen like insurance companies and government. If Americans on...more
All this hue and cry about Alan Grayson calling some Enron lobbyist a K-Street Whore just helps separate the neocons from the true Conservatives.If anything, an actual believer in limited governmen...more
When a passenger flight recently overflew its destination by 150 miles (which, hyperbole aside, is only about 15 minutes), the first assumption on everyone’s part seemed to be that the pilots...more
What could move a Conservative advocate of Liberty to commend Barack Obama on a policy decision? How about taking perhaps the first significant pro-freedom action by a president since Reagan?Obama ...more
I’m watching the neocons and other Liberals on a pundit shouting show talk about how important Pakistan’s national security is to the US. This is like saying that the good-feeling prope...more
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Roaming the world as a foreign correspondent for more than a decade, I was able to observe how a variety of vastly different nations organized themselves economically.
The inescapable conclusion was that no politician anywhere on the planet has ...ever actually created a rupee's worth of prosperity.
-- Louis Rukeyser, "Louis Rukeyser's Wall Street" newsletter, Nov 96
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The typical second earner in a household does not even bring home enough to pay for the first earner's taxes...and yet we wonder why "greedy" parents spend all day working, instead of spending the family time that reduces teen problems and produces better adults later?
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The increasing obsession with safety in the US has the opposite effect of the one intended. As with a mother determined to keep her child from all pain, the actual result is greater danger, more harm, and less actual living and happiness.
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Next time you see someone mocking the idea that America could have health care waiting lists and death panels, point out that we already do.
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I was reading over some discussion of the Climate Change Timeline, and realized that people are failing to notice the most important news it contains:
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That’s how, for example, car insurance works. If you’re careful and lucky, you’ll “waste” money on it your whole life, and never need to make a claim. You are just pooling a risk with everyone else, and only a few of you should need to cash it in, per year.
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We’re told by teachers, politicians, and the media that unions are the best thing ever to happen to people who work. Without them, we’d all be working 80 hour weeks, for pennies per hour, and dying by 30 from how dangerous the conditions are.
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