Have we reached a critical mass of voters? On what issue you might ask. On whether big government is bad on the whole. I have read a couple of articles recently, addressing that question. I don’t honestly know whether or to what extent people may believe big government is basically good. But here is a […]
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A New Paradigm for Addressing Poverty
13 Dec 2015
Is there a “poverty industry”? Is the way we attempt to alleviate poverty wrong, outdated, even harmful? These are two questions the new documentary Poverty, Inc. attempts to address. I had the opportunity to host a screening this video documentary at Cedarville University, sponsored by the Department of History and Government and the Institute for […]
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The 5,500 Page Behemoth
10 Nov 2015
In this blog, I have but one question, regarding the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), which has just been made available for one’s reading pleasure. Here is my question. For an agreement that is touted as a free trade compact, why do we need a 5, 500 page document (parts of which I have read)? If we […]
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Another Modest Proposal: Part 2
03 Nov 2015
In my last post I put forth a proposal for what a new president might do to reduce regulations in the bloated “administrative state.” I will now add more fuel to the fire by suggesting what actions the new president might take to eliminate whole agencies. Yes, I did say entire Federal agencies. I won’t […]
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Bernie Sanders Looks to Sweden
20 Oct 2015
In the recent Democratic Party debate Bernie Sanders told us we should look to Sweden, Denmark and Norway to see how a successful democratic socialist economic system works. I have heard others say the same thing. Even some conservatives have argued that socialism of the democratic kind works pretty well in those Scandinavian countries. Rich […]
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What is that one good thing (among others)? It is that his exit is potentially a blow to the US Chamber of Commerce, that supposedly “conservative” group of business leaders who are really not conservative except in a very limited sense. Here is what is going on. The Chamber has decided it will spend over […]
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The Millennial Problem
14 Aug 2015
I know some college students read this blog, so I will begin by citing a pretty good article in the August 6 edition of Reason.com (a libertarian periodical) entitled “How the Federal Government Betrayed the Millennials,” by Veronique de Rugy. Perhaps you don’t think the Feds did betray millennials (you know who you are). After […]
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This is Part Two of my long blog concerning Pope Francis’s global climate change (and generally environmental and poverty focused) encyclical Laudato Si, issued last Thursday. I am a little to sorry to say this part will be at least as long as the first, but look at this way: You could read the full […]
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The Greek drama may finally be ending as soon as Monday, as end it must at some point. Greece will exit the Euro, and the question is what will happen? I don’t claim any special insight into what that will be, but there are a few points about this we should consider. First, Greece’s problem […]
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Pope Francis issued his long-awaited encyclical today, entitled, Ladato Si or “Praise to You [O Lord].” The 183 page document is concerned with the environment and more specifically with global climate change. I am in the process of making my way through it, but have a few initial comments get things going. First, the Pope […]
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