Thank you, Stephen! ———————————————– While it is interesting to discuss the increases of the size of government over the last century, it is also interesting to look at the hidden increase in government, and then to look at the combined … Continue reading
Happy Monday everyone!!! I do have a post from Stephen, but there are a lot of images and links that I need to embed, and that’s going to take a bit more time than I have in the early morning … Continue reading
While watching the crockumentary What the Health on Netflix, I wondered where my life had gone wrong that it had come to that, but that’s not important right now. I also wondered about the way people use mental shortcuts when … Continue reading
Happy Tuesday, all!! I again apologize for not having this posted yesterday. Thank you Stephen! Socrates tells us that the unexamined life is not worth living; a natural corollary to this is that it behooves one to reexamine their positions … Continue reading
Land Reform is the Jason Voorhees of social planning: a bad idea that fails every generation yet refuses to die and stay dead. For thousands of years enthusiastic reformers have touted Land Reform as the solution to social ills. The … Continue reading
Don’t worry! It’s not Monday!!!! We had some delay with Stephen’s Monday post, so without further adieu……. With the hullabaloo surrounding recent revelations involving rather nefarious actions by the FBI in collusion with the Democrats, the news media outlets, and … Continue reading
What is it like to be a man? (Or woman, or child). A famous—or infamous—philosophy article wondered what was it like to be a bat, and found it impossible. Now, I mostly disagreed with that article, since I think we … Continue reading
An article by the very accomplished Arthur Brooks of the American Enterprise Institute angered me. (http://www.nationalreview.com/article/455831/american-poverty-root-cause-dignity-deficit}. Re-reading the article, I almost agree with all of it. I agree that poverty in today’s America is a moral problem, and that lifting … Continue reading
Tonight, President Trump (I still kinda can’t even) will make his first State of the Union speech. I think a few of us are hoping he’ll just read the memo and drop the mic, but we’ll see what happens. I’m … Continue reading
Happy Monday everyone!!! As always, Monday’s post comes to us from Stephen Hall. (I even remembered to change the author this time.) Have a great day everybody! Nearly everyone in America has for the past few years stared agape at … Continue reading
