Archives for June, 2009

Now that The House has passed the single worst piece of legislation in US history, the Cap-and-Trade Bill, a showdown in the Senate has been set. If freedom prevails and The Senate fails to pass this bill, the US will see the high water mark of Pres. Obama’s honeymoon power. Like Pres. Clinton before him, [...]

Keep options open until circumstances make change necessary. There is enormous inertia tyranny of the status quo in private and especially governmental arrangements. Only a crisis-actual or perceived produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. – Milton Friedman (2002) You never want [...]

As much as those who seek to defend Standard English hate to admit it, language is a social compact in flux. Bill Safire, the great warrior for the language of Shakespeare, fought a battle he could never win. Every day, the entire world’s population modifies and adapts language to fulfill contemporary needs. What is in [...]

Back in April, this blog argued that the collectivist Left’s urging of a ‘simple’ life was more about social control than any environmentalist agenda (http://www.shoutbits.com/2009/04/live-simply-die-young.html). As if to make the same point, the New York Times has recently posted an op-ed arguing “The Joy of Less” (http://happydays.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/07/the-joy-of-less/). In addition to comparing giving up Manhattan to [...]