President Obama appears to be weighing the possibility of unilateral executive action to redefine the legal status of between 5 and 10 million illegal immigrants. His party’s defeat at the polls just two weeks ago appears not to have chastened the President, but has, perhaps, precipitated a constitutional crisis. Obama’s defenders are invoking previous Presidents […]

During the month of October the Bereans at the Gate “Roadshow” played at several churches in the greater Miami Valley area. This Sunday, November 23, several Berean regulars: Marc Clauson, Jeff Haymond, and Bert Wheeler will be making presentations at the Southern Economic Association meeting in Atlanta. In preparation for this momentous occasion we will be making slightly […]

Earlier this fall the Institute for Faith, Work, and Economics (IFWE) responded to an article I had written in September’s edition of Christianity Today. The article opened by describing the recent IFWE video, “I, Smartphone”—a 21st Century take on Leonard Read’s influential “I, Pencil” written over a half-century ago. I used the video as a […]

There was a great short article in Forbes Magazine November 10 by George Leef.  It also brought back memories from my law school days when I wrote about a very similar topic.  Leef’s article was about the Raisin Administrative Committee—yes you read it correctly a Federal agency named the Raisin Administrative Committee.  If only it […]

Something was missing from the recent Republican campaign efforts.  Though they did retake the Senate and several governor’s mansions, most were strangely silent on what might have been some winning issues.  These included Obamacare, school reform and reforming bureaucracy and regulation.  Obamacare did receive some attention, which is good, and all the new senators vowed […]

On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day in the eleventh month of 1918, an armistice ended World War 1. More than 9 million soldiers died in the war, with 20 million wounded. The war ended but a generation was lost or crippled. At the Battle of the Somme, the British alone suffered more than […]

Imagine a government so twisted and evil it had to build a wall to keep “citizens” from fleeing. Imagine next what it was like to watch the Berlin Wall come down. The moment was emotional for all Cold War Kids, of which I was one, but I cannot imagine the impact for those who grew […]

The debate between the economists reminds me of a long-past humorous saying about the dismal practitioners (only teasing there):  “If you laid all the economists of the world end-to-end they would never reach a conclusion.”  I guess they still haven’t regarding this question of whether the Republicans and Democrats are essentially different or the same. […]

There are few things more fun than sitting back and watching economists fight. My good colleagues Drs. Wheeler and Haymond are in the midst of a tussle over the differences, or lack of differences, between our political parties. Their back and forth is worth a read. In some ways, this is the argument between those […]

Fellow Berean Jeff Haymond responded to a post I made on election day on what I see as very distinct similarities between Republicans and Democrats on economic issues. Rather than commenting on Jeff’s post by responding in the text box underneath his post I’d like to include a couple of diagrams. In order to include those diagrams […]