“This is painful for a liberal to admit but conservatives have a point when they suggest that America’s safety net can sometimes entangle people in a soul-crushing dependency.” Nicho...Read More
Apparently when President Obama said “If you like your health plan, you can keep your health plan.” it was not a lie, it was “paternalistic dishonesty.” The kind of thing you...Read More
The graph below shows that human deaths from natural disasters have decreased dramatically in the last century contrary to what many people want to believe. There is a normal human tendency to extrapo...Read More
The next president will almost certainly be a woman so get used to saying “Madam President.” The Democrats will in all likelihood nominate Hillary Clinton and if the Republicans want to ...Read More
This year to celebrate Labor Day many in the labor movement are demanding that we raise the minimum wage. Beware the urge to do good when it violates the laws of economics. Cowpeople working This ye...Read More
This is from Peggy Noonan’s column in the WSJ on Saturday August 3, 2013 I have a friend who once told me the difference between cats and dogs. When you get up in the morning and feed your dog h...Read More
Back in December I wrote about what I called The Big Bubble and asked the question: What should an investor do to survive the looming government debt bubble? Now along comes a book that attempts to...Read More
Who will be demonstrating in your town this spring? Last year about this time the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations were getting started and were replicating around the nation as the “Occupy A...Read More