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Stimulus Package: 1 Trillion Dollars
New Taxes: 1 Trillion Dollars
Net Gain: zero
What do you call taking a trillion dollars from some and giving a trillion to others? Redistribution of wealth.
Federal Deficit as of today: 10.8 Trillion
Stimulus Package: another Trillion in a single year
Payment through new taxes: a trillion over TEN years
Barack Obama claims he’s cutting [...]

If you are anything like me, you may have been gravely mistaken in your understanding of oppression and child abuse. Let me clarify for you:
Oppression is teaching your child about God, teaching morals and absolute standards. Child abuse is not respecting your childs autonomous authority to do as he pleases. It is not giving your [...]

My wife and I began reading A Tree Grows In Brooklyn since we ourselves are living in Brooklyn. The book is an account of a life in poverty at the turn of the century. I began thinking - how would this account differ if written today? Well, here is how it might go:
Francie was a [...]

I would like everyone to take the following challenge.
Go to the US Post Office to ship an overnight package. Don’t bring a box, just show up and ask the person at the counter for a box and ask some questions about the shipment. Now go to FedEx and do the same thing.
Now ask yourself if [...]

“You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they [...]

Comrade, let me welcome you to the United Socialist States of America. It’s been a long voyage, you may not realize you’d left, but you have most certainly arrived.
In the USSA, we care about the peasant class, the poor, the workers. So much so that we are carefully tending to new ways of creating more [...]

We moved to New York, and my parents have suddenly gotten season tickets for every show that visits Atlanta. The last time Susanna and I went to a show was Les Miserables at least a year ago. So this weekend we decided to dump the kids on our friend Shannon (visiting from Toronto) and go [...]

I browsed over to CNN and took a look at the summary of a couple of articles.
“Michael Gates Gill enjoys making lattes and cleaning toilets”

You know… I’m suddenly not really in the mood for a latte. Note to self - no Mr. Gill latte’s
Sen. McCain: We need to spend money to create jobs, but not [...]

I can’t say how many clients, colleagues, friends, and random people on the streets I’ve heard saying they are planning to attend the inauguration. I found this picture on the right of the DC mall during the “March for Women’s Lives”… no one has ever heard of that, so go ahead and multiply that crowd [...]

My wife has held before me the challenge and moral dilemma of reconciling Libertarian views with the issue of abortion. It is true, you will find many Libertarians who extend the right of personal liberty to “a woman’s right to choose.” However, I contest that Libertarian ideology is wholly in-line with the pro-life stance.
Libertarian ideology [...]