Nov 302009
 

The Boston Globe has endorsed Alan Khazei for the  Democratic primary next week to run in the special election in January to replace the late Sen. Ted Kennedy. The Globe describes Khazei as “the prime mover behind national-service policies,” i.e. he’s an AmeriCorps hack, I mean, activist. AmeriCorps is one of President Obama’s favorite organizations, [...]

Nov 292009
 

Obama’s Medical Monopoly, by Scott Lazarowitz November 28, 2009  © American Thinker 2009 If there’s anything worse than a private-sector monopoly, it’s a government-run monopoly. The difference is that in the private sector, everyone is free to compete and remove the monopolist’s monopoly status, while a government monopoly forbids competition and compels the citizenry to [...]

Nov 282009
 

Well, after all the Town Hall meetings and Tea Parties, and the 2009 elections in New Jersey, NY and Virginia, it’s time for a break from political annoyances–NOT! In Massachusetts, the Special Election to find a hack to replace the late Senator Kennedy is in just two months, and the party primaries are in just [...]

Nov 272009
 

–Fred Barnes: Why Obama Isn’t Changing Washington ….Mr. Obama also decried the prominent role played by lobbyists. “Lobbyists aren’t just a part of the system in Washington, they’re part of the problem,” Mr. Obama said in a May 2008 campaign speech. I was reminded of this last statement by a recent headline on the front [...]

Nov 242009
 

Sue Blevins and Robin Kaigh at Christian Science Monitor have this article about how we will lose any right to privacy with passage of this 2,074 page health care reform monstrosity. ….Bill text: “Sec. 1104. Administrative Simplification…. (4) Requirements for Financial and Administrative Transactions. – (A) In General. – The standards and associated operating rules [...]

Nov 232009
 

It is immoral for the state to forcibly confiscate privately owned wealth and property. That’s theft. If it is against civil society’s general rules of behavior for private citizens to forcibly take another citizen’s private wealth  or property, then the same guidelines for common civility and respect for rights to life, liberty and property should [...]

Nov 212009
 

Two Florida state senators have proposed that Florida abandon the Federal Medicaid  program, and devise a state program for low-income residents. The reason, say the senators, is because the health care reform proposals in Washington will add so many new Medicaid enrollees in Florida, it will greatly add to the state’s financial burden. Perhaps this [...]

Nov 202009
 

One of the biggest hindrances to the economic progress of ordinary Americans  has been the control by the  state over money. The general belief that the state should control the production and distribution of money has been a self-destructive ideology. There is a conflict between “central bank” control and private citizens’ economic growth and financial [...]

Nov 172009
 

I try to not be too pessimistic about everything, regardless of all the crimes that “public officials” are perpetrating against us. A few months back, I wrote this post: Recently, there have been criticisms by people in the news media of conservatives’ “listening tour,” with the pundits bringing up the old creation vs. evolution debate. [...]