Philosophical musings

It looks like Obama is abandoning (for now) any appeal to moderates & is targeting his left wing base.. trying to rally his troops. The ...

Here is an interesting table. It seems from this chart that the US spends way more per capita on health care than any other nation....

I don't know how to say this to soften it, but life sucks sometimes. You get old. You get sick. Sometimes you die. There's no real e...

Here's the problem. We did not have a welfare state until the late 60's, with Johnson's 'war on poverty'. Before that, p...

"The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Gov...

I don't really understand the left.. the motivations.. the logic (or lack thereof).. the desire for complete control. The problems we ha...

Tax saving ideas.. 1. End tax subsidies to religious & non profit groups. A lower tax rate won't be too demanding on their donati...