Canada’s postal service announced this past week that it would cease home delivery over the next five years. In place of home delivery, Canadians who live in cities would have to pick up their mail and parcels at community mailboxes which would be...
Like a macabre mixture of an Edgar Allen Poe tale and a Bob Dylan lyric, the House of Obama is teetering in the wake of its self-created winds of change, transformation and decline. Yet in the face of America’s diminution the president appears more...
Many legislators have admitted they didn’t read the Affordable Health Care Act before voting on it. Instead, they took Nancy Pelosi’s bizarre advice: “But we have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the...
Senator Rand Paul was recently on a TV news show lamenting the circumstances surrounding the bill that supposedly saved America from the “fiscal cliff”—‘‘The American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012’.” He explained that the senators were given three...
Murphy’s law states that if anything can possibly go wrong, it probably will. A cynical view, to be sure, but one supported by considerable evidence. On the other hand, things can also go unexpectedly right. Both situations underscore the same...
Every day brings another story of a government agency banning something. New York’s Mayor Bloomberg banned large soft drinks and trans fats in restaurant food and campaigned to lower salt content. (The rumor is, popcorn is next.) South LA banned the...
The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers it can bribe the public with the public’s money. Alexis De Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 1835. Folks, you have just read the perfect definition of Congressional earmarks and...
Like many of my high school classmates in the 1960’s, I once believed that politicians were, for the most part, selfless servants of the people. Setting aside the enormous salaries they could earn in the private sector, they sacrificed the...
