This blog is a supplement to my colleague Jeff Haymond’s very informative blog of July 26 entitled “Turning to the Left….” I wanted to add a further ethical dimension to the discussion of income inequality which Jeff was addressing with regard to recent comments by Thomas Ricks at Politico. Jeff’s comments are worth reproducing in […]
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Let’s Get Ethical
28 Jul 2014
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Elizabeth Warren came out with her 11 Commandments today. For some reason I think 10 Commandments would be better. But in any case, here they are, with this Berean’s counter following in italics: “We believe that Wall Street needs stronger rules and tougher enforcement, and we’re willing to fight for it.” Bereans believe that […]
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Do You Pay a Corruption Tax?
15 Jul 2014
According to a new study by Cheol Liu of the City University of Hong Kong and John Mikesell of Inidana University, states that have more corruption spend more money and in less effective ways. I have not yet read the journal article behind this story, but the Huffington Post provides an interesting snippet here. Most […]
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A few days ago I wrote a blog on bureaucracy and promised to follow it up by addressing the question of the compatibility of this form of organization with Scripture. As Abraham Kuyper once said, there is not one part of the universe that God cannot call His (my paraphrase) and that includes our thinking […]
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It is easy to pick on the Democrats these days from a Christian Political Economy perspective, after all, virtually every social policy they pursue is unbiblical and their economics is pure quackery. Is quackery too strong a word? Perhaps, but while paying lip service to the 2nd Law of Economics (Incentives Matter!), their policy prescriptions […]
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The Fourth of July
04 Jul 2014
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness; that, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; […]
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Gridlock is Good
27 Jun 2014
Yesterday (June 26) the White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest (we could only wish) said, regarding immigration, “We’re not just going to sit around interminably for Congress.” He went on to say that the Obama administration was growing impatient with Congress. Well, this isn’t exactly earth-shattering news. We have known for say, seven years, that […]
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Bill Bloat, or, Statutory Satiation
25 Jun 2014
Congress hasn’t passed all that much legislation in some time, or at least not anything much of significance. That may be a good thing. But in this blog I want to take a look at a very disturbing trend in the legislation that has passed. Below I have listed some of the most important bills […]
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Obama and the Bergdahl Release
02 Jun 2014
President Obama, unfortunately, does not seem all that interested in obeying the law. The list of overt illegality continues to grow and diversify. Beyond immigration and the Affordable Care Act, the President now flouts the law as it relates to military matters. The Obama Administration, through intermediaries, negotiated the release of Bowe Bergdahl, an American prisoner of […]
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Medicare to Cover Sex Change Surgeries
01 Jun 2014
According to the Washington Post, Medicare will now cover sex change surgeries. I am not sure what to say about this, frankly. There are really two separate questions at work. First, should people have the freedom to have sex change operations? Second, do we, as a society, and as taxpayers, have an obligation to facilitate […]
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