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 Generous People
19 Jan 2016
Well, for those who think the wealthy are stingy and selfish, a new study seems to disprove that old maxim, which, I hesitate to say it, but must, is most often heard from the lips of political liberals who believe the solution to problems requiring money (almost all problems for them) is money, is government. […]
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Sometimes I sound like a broken record—err, broken iPad for all the millennials. But once again, the problem of bureaucracy comes up, in this case, specifically in relation to the Veterans Administration. This is the scandal that won’t go away. It is in the news again, as we rad of whistleblowers who are “rewarded” for […]
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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 Is the way we attempt to alleviate poverty wrong, outdated, even harmful?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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Once again, there is so much out there that I am somewhat at a loss to focus on a single issue. If you haven’t been hibernating early, the newsworthy items include the refugee problem, the Paris and Mali attacks, the VA travesty regarding its treatment of veterans, the Missouri-inspired (or was it Yale) episode of […]
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The European Disease
07 Sep 2015
If there is anything more representative of the immense waste, bureaucratic elitism and arrogance, it is this report of the erection of a new, decorative statue of a tree outside the new European Central Bank headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany. The statue, ostensibly of a Walnut tree, cost about $1 million in American dollars. The tree […]
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I just finished reading two articles on higher education, one by Walter Russell Mead in The American Interest and other in National Review Online, the latter which goes nicely with a third article entitled “New Analysis Shows Problematic Boom in Higher Ed Administrators” in the Huffington Post. Together these articles paint a discouraging picture, especially […]
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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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Some Questions to Ponder: Just Asking
15 Jul 2015
I have a few questions for thought today. I am not answering them, though the reader may well have some idea where I am on them. So just read and ponder. Please feel free to comment too. I have not read the Iran nuclear deal yet, but I understand it will aid Iran in developing […]
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They Are Singing the Blues, Maybe
09 Jul 2015
Here is a summary of a study by the Mercatus Center of George Mason University on the fiscal situation of liberal states. It looks like liberal states are predominantly profligate. And how well are their citizens faring? Take a look—and read the entire study. Maybe these states might want to consult Greece (?). This summary […]
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