Contrasts
Two stories over at HotAir really provide a nice contrast on the issue of public employee unions in Wisconsin. The first concerns the protest outside a school visited by Governor Scott Walker. With all the problems with education, you would think that Messmer Preparatory Catholic School would be celebrated for its success, as 85% of its […]
Read More..>>Gas Insanity – 2011
Einstein famously defined Insanity as doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. Based on this definition, we are once again entering into insanity when it comes to gas prices. I have been observing this since the 1980s, and I am sure that it goes back before this. Every summer prices […]
Read More..>>The Problem With Unions
Unions have been in the news quite a bit lately, with Wisconsin at the head of 37 states seeking to limit the impact of state employee unions on their strained budgets. For the unions, given the decline in union membership over the last several decades, the fight is a matter of life and death, as […]
Read More..>>Can You Trust Conservatives
The wife of a liberal friend of mine recently asked some sincere questions trying to figure out conservatives, and so I thought I would address them. I will do the political question here and the more religiously oriented ones in the near future at my other blog, www.consider.org/blog. Her politically oriented question concerned the statement […]
Read More..>>Profits Part I
One of the constant complaints from the left for over a century has to do with the whole notion of profits and it shows no signs of letting up. Be it the Big Oil companies gouging consumers at the pump, Big Pharma gouging people for drugs they need to keep them alive, or Big Insurance […]
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