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The Rich Are Different
The rich are different than you and me. And it isn’t only that they have more money. The rich have come under attack recently, so I decided to take a look at who is really, really rich. And what I...
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The 7 Billionth Person
According to the United Nations, the 7 billionth person came into the world the other day. I was wondering why it felt kind of crowded around here. The 1 billionth person arrived when Thomas Jefferson...
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The Business of Business
“The chief business of the American people is business.” Calvin Coolidge said that to a group of newspaper editors in 1925, smack dab in the middle of the Roaring 20’s, a decade of brisk economic...
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Rules Are Made to Be Broken
My cousin Barry once said to me, with a mischievous grin, before he got in trouble with his parents, “rules are made to be broken.” That certainly is the case these days with the so-called Hastert...
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Catfish Nation
We live in a catfish nation. “Catfish” is a television show on MTV about people who lie about themselves. According to the New York Times, “a so-called catfish is the engineer of the false online...
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Obama The Great?
Historians will rate President Barack Obama as one our nation’s greatest Presidents. The question is: Was he any good? That the history profession is dominated by a liberal elite comes as no...
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Learning From Obama
The President’s second inaugural brilliantly pushed forward his political agenda in ways that Republicans need to understand and learn from. Republicans will never be able to outbid the President when...
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Focus on the Underclass, Not the Upper Class
Reflecting his political upbringing, Barack Obama spends an inordinate amount of his time worrying about how the rich are getting richer. He practices envy politics. The poor are poor not because of...
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The Real Budget Battle
The real budget battle in Washington is not between Republican and Democrats or conservatives vs. liberals. The real budget battle in Washington is between discretionary spending vs. entitlement...
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The Fun in Functional
Last night, as I welcomed a group of executives from the American Public Transportation Association, I said the following: “Welcome to Washington, where we put the fun in dysfunction. Well, at least...
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We Need A Rainy Day Fund
What happened in Moore, Oklahoma was terrible, just terrible. What will likely happen in Washington as a response will be just as bad, in its own way. The tornado that tore through the Oklahoma City...
View ArticleConfab on Immigration
Republicans are having a confab on immigration as I write this entry. I imagine that none of them like the Senate product. I don’t blame them. I don’t like what the Senate produced, even though, had I...
View ArticleThe Club Strikes Out Again
So, the Club for Growth is up to its old tricks. The group of bilious billionaires who gave us Christine O’Donnell, Sharon Angle, Joe Miller, and other losers is now trying to replace Mike Simpson with...
View Article40 Billion
8R89EW2H8234 Teach a man to fish. That’s the biblical admonition. The food stamp program doesn’t do much of that, and that’s probably why we need to rethink our whole social safety net. House...
View ArticleAmerica Needs A Bench Coach
My 7 year-old son plays for a Little League team, the Angels, which is a pretty funny name for a bunch of rambunctious little boys. Baseball isn’t the fastest game in the world, especially for 7...
View ArticleG-Care
I know I am asking a lot here. But the new health care needs a new name. Let’s stop calling it Obamacare. Here is my reasoning. If you want to repeal a law, you need Democratic help. They will never...
View ArticleMaking Ron Burgundy Proud
The commercials are frickin’ hilarious. Ron Burgundy, Anchorman, selling the Dodge Durango. The ad campaign is brilliant. In one, Burgundy (aka Will Ferrell) talks about the size of the glove box,...
View ArticleStuck
We are stuck in 2009 and we can’t get out. The United States just signed an agreement with Afghanistan that will keep a contingent of our troops there for ever, despite the fact that nobody in America...
View ArticleImmigration Reform Without the Police State
I am in favor of comprehensive immigration reform that tightens the border, legalizes the status of the 11 million immigrants who live in society’s shadows now, provides a fair pathway to folks who...
View ArticleCurrent State of U.S. Economy: Lukewarm Water
“There’s a fine line between stupid and clever.” So said the lads from Spinal Tap. Government’s Role in the Economy In much the same way, there’s a fine line between effective and dangerous when it...
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