More of Barack Obama’s “Change”

What do we hear now from this President-Elect Obama, supposed harbinger of change?  Consider this contradictory news headline: “Obama promotes fiscal restraint, big spending.”
In reality, this is the same sort of political mumbo-jumbo we’ve seen from mainstream Keynesian economic theory since The Great Depression.  Where has it gotten us?  Since the Great Depression, we had [...]

Subsidizing the Wealthy

If Washington’s leviathan government is good at anything, it is subsidizing the wealthy.  Consider corporate welfare, for instance.  Those with the most resources (esp. time, information, and money) are rewarded with the pork barrel spending, the government contracts, the special legislation, etc.  We keep thinking that by putting in more rules and regulations (reforming the [...]

What Kind of Change, Mr. Obama?

Though I am sick of hearing about President Obama’s cabinet appointees, being fed ad nauseum, the pundits perspectives and rumored picks does bring up one question: considering the types of people who have been or will be offered positions by President Obama, what kind of change is he really going to work towards?
Rahm Emmanuel, Obama’s [...]

You’re Asking the Wrong Question

From the latest commentary piece by Ron Paul posted today on CNN:
Now, in light of the election, many are asking: What is the future of the Republican Party? But that is the wrong question. The proper question should be: Where is our country heading?

Veteran’s Day

Veterans’ Day is plagued with sadness and tragedy.  It is a day to remember war and its costs, especially the most brutal 20th Century conflicts.
It was originally called “Armistice Day,” as it was the day that ended the armed hostilies of World War I.  The Western parties signed an armistice, a treaty, a peace agreement, a truce.  [...]