In Mark Steyn’s recent treatise, After America, he makes the case that American society is doomed unless the people of the United States very rapidly repudiate the social welfare state and expansive federal government that they have voted for repeatedly over the last fifty years. This data, which I found at Zero Hedge, shows …
Category Archive: American
Oct 02
Excessive Government Regulation
I found this tag on the stroller we push our son around in: First of all, in a state as financially troubled as California, they can still afford their own “Bureau of Home Furnishings“? At first I was terrified that this department of the State of California had at least 117 technical bulletins on Home …
Aug 15
Book Review: The Original Argument
The Original Argument was not, as it leads one to believe from the cover, written by Glenn Beck. It was largely compiled by Joshua Charles, a student at the University of Kansas who heard Beck’s call for some to “translate” the Federalist Papers into modern English so more people could appreciate them. As far …
Aug 15
Book Review : Reckless Endangerment
In Reckless Endangerment, Gretchen Morgenstern and Joshua Rosner, both of the New York Times, do a reasonable job of exposing some of the greed and corruption that led to the financial collapse of 2008 and the Great Recession which America finds itself unable to recover from even three years later. I found the exposé of …
Jul 11
Santelli on the US Debt Ceiling
Rick Santelli goes on a classic rant: He clearly points out that the US Government must start to live within the revenue it has, and not just reduce the growth in government spending, but actually reduce spending and come up with a real plan to balance the budget. The other folks in that vi deo …
Dec 21
Ayn Rand, Futurist
Normally, I don’t like to post blatant “I agree” posts that simply point to someone else’s blog, but this time I can’t resist: (Philadelphia Inquirer, 12 Dec 201) Earlier this month, responding to a shortage of chemotherapy drugs in Minnesota, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D., Minn.) wrote to FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg asking that the FDA …
Apr 14
Three heroes tell Obama he is wrong
Today, there is an open letter to President Obama from two of the twelve men who walked on the Moon and a third who was supposed to but instead survived perhaps the most harrowing ordeal of them all: The United States entered into the challenge of space exploration under President Eisenhower’s first term, however, it …
Feb 16
International Investment in the Oil Sands
There have been a few stories in the news lately concerning the Alberta Oil Sands and the various moves toward or away from this resource. A couple of interesting stories: Canada looks to China to exploit oil sands rejected by US BP risks investor outrage at ‘dirty’ oil deal Chinese, Korean and Japanese firms have …
Dec 14
Bad Bankers? What about the State?
Last night on 60 Minutes, the President of the United States squarely laid the blame for the economic recession of the last 18 months at the feet of “fat-cat bankers”. I was disappointed, but not surprised, when the questioner failed to do their job and hold the President to account for the fact that …