Postal Service is an Oxymoron
2 October 2006This morning I went to the local Post Office. I have a small business that I’ve run part time for several years and now I’m taking it full time so I wanted a post office box to keep my personal and business dealings separate. After standing in line for about twenty minutes I arrived at [...]
Miss America to the Rescue
21 September 2006According to Nancy Pelosi if the Democrats gain control of the house in November, their first order of business will be to make America energy independent. I hope she’ll pardon me for being skeptical. After all, it is the dems that have prevented the US from drilling for oil in ANWR, the Gulf of Mexico [...]
Election Outlook
20 September 2006With seven weeks to go until election day the outlook is changing. A month ago the general wisdom was that Democrats were poised to retake the House and maybe even pull off a coup in the Senate. What a difference a month makes! So what events have worked to change the dynamics of the election [...]
A Living Wage
28 July 2006Once again Congress is making noises about raising the minimum wage. And along with that effort comes much demagoguery. So for the record, let’s discuss for a moment who really works at minimum wages jobs and what a minimum wage really means for low income workers.Democrats would have us believe that America’s poor are forced [...]
Drugs and Gas
10 July 2006I’m something of a talk radio junkie so, as is typical for me, I was listening to a local talk show on my way to work this morning. The talking head was pontificating about the price of gas reaching a $3.00/gallon national average. So, just to keep his listeners on their collective toes, he compared [...]
Cheaper Gas?
6 July 2006The democrats are at it again. Now they are promising cheaper gasoline for all Americans if only we’ll vote for them in November. Considering how short the American collective memory is they may succeed again with this demagoguery. At its base level gas prices are the simple result of supply and demand. World demand continues [...]
