Minimum Markup Insanity
There’s a basic flaw in the minimum markup law here. To understand where I’m coming from, let me first say I’m in favor of minimum markups, in principal. They attempt to keep giant chains from...
View ArticleNope
Nan Lee writes about Barack Obama: With those vote-leaking drawbacks, Obama looks like he’s worth it and could possibly bring it home. Nope. Not gonna happen. You see, Barack Obama has one very obvious...
View ArticleNecrophilia. Sigh.
Ann Althouse isn’t the only one that’s picked up on this story but I’ll single it out here just because she’s an easier target. (I would have simply added a comment to her blog, but she won’t let me)....
View ArticleI saw a movie yesterday
…and I remembered. I remembered a man from the past. I remembered a man who entered politics as a young man, but who grew and matured. A man who entered the Department of Justice at a time when that...
View ArticleThe Outpatients Are Out In Force, I See.
Now this is strange. I’ll make no secret of this: I’m not one of Jessica McBride’s fans. You want proof? The first line of her comment is disgraceful. I’ve even gone so far as to speculate on when her...
View ArticleFifth Amendment
I’ve got some real mixed emotions about the Boucher decision. I mean, I’m all in favor of the Fifth Amendment. I think it’s necessary to preserve our liberties, especially today when the federal...
View ArticleA Tale of Two Cities
OK, the election is upon us. It’s the only time our government is required by law to listen to us, yet so few of us take advantage of it. One reason may be the success of negative campaign ads....
View ArticleThe Patience Problem
The election is over. The campaign was the easy part. Gary Kasparov’s new editorial, though, underscores the biggest problem our freshly-minted President will have to face. It’s not the economy, or the...
View ArticleMixed Emotions
OK, not all that mixed, but still…. Fannie Mae hit a little trouble recently with a contractor. I’m glad they caught him in time. But… I can’t help but wonder if he was one of those H1B visas industry...
View ArticleChoice, Echoes, and the Death of Discourse
It began, as most insights do, as a comedy routine. Noel Paul Stookey did a riff on the self-centeredness of our culture, beginning with the magazine “Life” which was expansive and covered all of life,...
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