When President Obama wants to smoke does he have to stand outside the White House? Thanks to the Smoke Blog for this picture Hey don’t get mad at me according to this CBS News story the Presiden...Read More
I don’t really have a dog in the health-care debate since I’m less than 1000 days away from the Medicare buffet. But the politics of the debate have captured me and the media bias that i...Read More
Andrew P. challenged me to find out if Benjamin Franklin was an attorney. Simon and Ben chat in Santa Barbara I went to the source. Franklin was not a lawyer. Which brought up the question: How ma...Read More
You probably heard that the CDC (Centers for Disease Control) had the an obesity conference last week. It was called (I am not making this up): Weight of the Nation. The conference was held in Washi...Read More
All of the driving on our Colorado trip made us think a lot about cars. We connected cars with immigration when we heard on the radio that ICE was going to start auditing companies to see if they were...Read More
The President ordered the cabinet to cut a whopping $100 million from the $3.5 trillion federal budget! I’m so impressed by this sacrifice that I have decided to do the same thing with my person...Read More
Our comfortable middle class world is full of caring groups that want to for instance: stop genocide in Darfur without armed intervention or end the use of animal testing in drug development. These ...Read More
There is a great article by John Steele Gordon in this mornings Wall Street Journal titled Why Government Can’t Run a Business. Gordon is the author of Empire of Wealth an excellent book that ex...Read More