We need to differentiate between experiences and facts. We know that our individual perspectives affect how we experience events, but [...]
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Pinterest and The Knot Won’t Promote Plantation Weddings Anymore
Pinterest and the Knot Worldwide, two of the country’s biggest online wedding-planning platforms, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘“John Stossel”’
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Sep06
What I Ask of Romney and Obama
on September 6th, 2012 at 5:41 pmPosted In: Archive, Southern Partisan
The Republican Convention ended on the theme “Believe in America.” That sounded nice, but it was just another platitude. Mitt Romney’s speech was filled with platitudes: “We will honor America’s democratic ideals. … We’re united to preserve liberty.” Please. Liberals and conservatives have real differences. We should state them. America is going broke, and tough […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Sep21
All political candidates call themselves freedom-lovers, but they are not. Neither major party really opposes government control of the economy or of our personal lives. I’m a libertarian because I see the false choice offered by political left and right: Democrats talk about personal liberty; Republicans talk about economic freedom. But what they do once […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Oct04
“There are no jobs!” That is what people told me outside a government “jobs center” in New York City. To check this out, I sent four researchers around the area. They quickly found 40 job openings. Twenty-four were entry-level positions. One restaurant owner told me he would hire 12 people if workers would just apply. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Nov07
Get ready for four more years of Big Bloated Government. Hurricane Sandy didn’t help. The New York Times declared “a big storm requires big government,” and my liberal neighbors agreed. My science-challenged mayor, Michael Bloomberg, said the storm makes it imperative that America do something about climate change. He said this even though hurricanes have […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Nov21
Yikes, we’re headed toward a fiscal cliff! It will crush the economy! Or so the media and politicians tell us. The “cliff” is a series of tax increases and budget cuts that automatically go into effect Jan. 1 unless Congress acts. Will Congress act? It will! I see the future: The politicians will meet and […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Nov29
Insider trading leads the news again, casting a cloud over Steven Cohen’s SAC Capital Advisors $14 billion hedge fund. The SEC charged Mathew Martoma, who used to manage a SAC Capital division, with using inside information about tests on an Alzheimer’s drug to trade stock of the company working on it. The media love this […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Jan09
The Obama administration now proposes to spend millions more on handouts, despite ample evidence of their perverse effects. Shaun Donovan, secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, says, “The single most important thing HUD does is provide rental assistance to America’s most vulnerable families — and the Obama administration is proposing bold steps […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Feb13
We’ve heard another State of the Union speech, and my president said grand things like: “Think about … a future where we’re in control of our own energy … I will not cede the wind or solar or battery industry to China … I will not back down from protecting our kids from mercury poisoning […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Apr03
Environmental activists and politicians would like you to think that we must love their regulations — or hate trees and animals. I love trees and animals. But you can love nature and still hate the tyranny that environmental regulations bring. The Environmental Protection Agency just announced it will boost gas prices (“only” a penny, although […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Jun12
This week, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., said the National Security Agency’s data mining violates our Fourth Amendment right to be “secure in their persons, houses, papers” and is “tyranny that our founders rebelled against.” Good for him. In an op-ed, he adds, “We fought a revolution over issues like generalized warrants, where soldiers would go […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Methodist Church Same-Sex Split
Homer United Methodist Church in Winona, Minn.Credit…Madeline Heim/The Winona Daily News, via Associated Press
Leaders of the United Methodist Church, the second-largest Protestant domination in the nation, announced on Friday a plan [...]
UNC Faculty Opposes Silent Sam Settlement
UNC faculty has expressed opposition to the University’s $2.5 million settlement which gave the Sons of Confederate Veterans $2.5 million and Silent Sam.
A number of UNC faculty departments have released statements in opposition [...]