Saturday, August 17th, 2013
Who Will Be the Next Fed Honcho? Bernanke is on the way out, and the hunt for a replacement to lead America’s central bank is on. It’s a pretty short list. Anyone smart enough to see the mess Bernanke has made by propping up the economy with endless bond purchases and QE, wants nothing to
Friday, August 16th, 2013
When George Ayittey saw rock star Bono in the audience at a conference, he made a special effort to rip into the foreign aid establishment. Bono later told Ayittey that he liked his speech but did not...
Wednesday, August 14th, 2013
Over the past 20 years I’ve bought two cars for my personal transportation. In 1994 I bought a 1-year old Toyota pickup for $10,000. I paid cash. That same year, a friend of mine bought a brand...
Sunday, August 11th, 2013
1,810 people renounced their US citizenship in the first half of 2013. That’s SIX times as many people who renounced their citizenship in the same time period the previous year. The trend is unmistakable. More and more...
Thursday, August 8th, 2013
I’m going to burn my house down. Then I’m going to push my car off a cliff. And then for a finale, I’m going to throw my television into the ocean. Besides being a tremendous amount of...
Tuesday, August 6th, 2013
It was an act of madness, one that no reasonable person would like to see repeated. A lunatic armed with a high-powered automobile ran over 12 people on the Venice Beach Boardwalk the other day. One person...
Monday, August 5th, 2013
The Sooner State is leading the pack is the quest to make healthcare simpler and less expensive. Not content to wait for directions from above, Dr. Kevin Smith and Dr. Steve Lantier started a surgery center based...
Friday, August 2nd, 2013
MSNBC host Ari Melber, recently blamed the death of Detroit on the “Free Market.” One can only assume that Mr. Melber was simply reading the teleprompter and did not have the slightest idea what he was saying....
Wednesday, July 31st, 2013
The scandal that just wouldn’t wash off has come back. This week’s National Enquirer is reporting that it has possession of a “sex tape” made by Monica Lewinsky for then President Bill Clinton. Lewinsky, then a Whitehouse...
Wednesday, July 31st, 2013
Despised by some, deified by others, Ayn Rand is mostly known for her overly thick novels: The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. She also wrote a book outlining her philosophy called, The Virtue of Selfishness. It has provided...
Tuesday, July 30th, 2013
When I was a kid, my friends and I built a tree fort in the woods out behind the last suburb of town. On the front door we hung a sign that said, “No girls allowed.” Why...
Monday, July 29th, 2013
Apparently kids were pretty smart back in the day. At least at this Kentucky school, they were expected to know a bit more than ‘reading, writing, and rithmetic.’ Not only that, but I have it on good...
Sunday, July 28th, 2013
The great thing about science is that it is true for everyone. The terrible thing is that it’s not always true right away. One-year science says avocados are bad for you, and the next year science says...
Saturday, July 27th, 2013
How can legal plunder be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits...
Thursday, August 1st, 2013
From Radical to Realist
Greenpeace founder, Patrick Moore has been ‘born-again’ as a realistic environmentalist. He speaks about the founding of Greenpeace, how it went astray, and why he left. He highlights the difference between “ecology” which is a science, and...