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The cost to a low-income family of having one child in high school band
According to my once-per-week housekeeper, Gloria — the single mother of one bright and hard-working kid who loves the clarinet and plays one in his high school marching band — during her… more →
Notes and Rests Make Music
How the Government and the Left Have Swindled Blacks (And the Price They Pay)
wrote 3 weeks ago: Black violence and particularly, black violence against whites is an increasing epidemic with many m … more →
Health Food Fail
wrote 3 months ago: HEALTHY FOOD IS A RIGHT (Oh my, they made the black kid a banana.) If you really think, for even a m … more →
The Coercive Influence of the State.
wrote 9 months ago: What is the State? I have made reference to this entity numerous times in previous posts – but … more →
Jesus Did Not Teach That Government Should Feed the Poor
wrote 1 year ago: Once upon a time, a man asked Jesus, “How can I have eternal life?” The short version of Jesus’ answ … more →
I do not think that word means what you think it means
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wrote 1 year ago: Excerpted from Suzanne Mettler’s “Reconstituting the Submerged State: The Challenge of Social … more →
The cost to a low-income family of having one child in high school band
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wrote 1 year ago: According to my once-per-week housekeeper, Gloria — the single mother of one bright and hard-w … more →
Obama's new deficit reduction plan reflects a marked change in strategy
wrote 1 year ago: The President has finally accepted the sad fact that there is no “new politics.” There i … more →
Mark Cuban on wealth, patriotism, and taxes
wrote 1 year ago: Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks: . . . Go out there and get rich. Get so obnoxiously rich … more →
Congressman Ryan calls the proposed Buffet tax rule "class warfare." How rich.
wrote 1 year ago: The New York Times reports that President Obama will propose the “Buffett Rule,” named after Warren … more →
101 year old woman evicted from house she'd lived in for 58 years
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wrote 1 year ago: This should not happen to my mother or yours. From WXYZ TV in Detroit: At 101-years-old, Texana Holl … more →
Hurt by a spaceship or a parrot? The remarkably specific new insurance billing codes
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wrote 1 year ago: Hospitals and doctors use a system of about 18,000 codes to describe medical services in bills they … more →
Social Security, nothing remotely like a Ponzi scheme, is easily fixed with minor tweaks
wrote 1 year ago: Here’s sane, moderate, and consummately well-informed twenty-something, Ezra Klein: Over the n … more →
How the Great Recession affects the politics of twenty-somethings
wrote 1 year ago: Zac Morgan on Frum Forum: It’s a funny thing when my generation is being crushed by both the short-t … more →
Why is GOP magnate Charles Koch telling his donors that the 2012 election will be the "mother of all wars"?
wrote 1 year ago: Charles Koch commenced a recent meeting of GOP fundraising magnates by announcing that the 2012 elec … more →
GOP financier Charles Koch's comment about the 2012 election is remarkably candid
wrote 1 year ago: ABC News: “We have Saddam Hussein, this is the Mother of All Wars we’ve got in the next 18 months,” … more →
The GOP is providing misinformation about the long-term solvency of Social Security
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wrote 1 year ago: A member of House leadership, Rep. Jeb Hensarling of Texas — my Congressman, by the way … more →
It is a mistake for a President to accept the GOP's core assumptions. He should publicly challenge them.
wrote 1 year ago: Bruce Bartlett in the New York Times: In a courtroom, justice requires that both sides be equally we … more →
Conservative, J.D. Hamel, on how today's GOP is no longer "conservative" in any sense
wrote 1 year ago: A conservative, J.D. Hamel, writes on Frum Forum: Huntsman does a disservice to conservatism by bran … more →
Who you callin' a socialist -- transportation edition
wrote 1 year ago: More evidence, if any is needed, that “socialism” is the proper term for those governmen … more →
