Michael Novak has gone home to our Father in Heaven. He was a good friend, mentor. I always felt privileged to stand stood shoulder-to-shoulder with him whenever we shared a platform defending God’s plan for human economic interaction. About ten years ago he showed me a book he was working on with his daughter Janna …
Sadly Saying Goodbye to My Friend, the Late Great Michael Novak Read More »
California is only one of many states that have routinely been neglecting infrastructure maintenance for decades. Why? Surely not for lack of money. After all, California has found money for eye-poppingly expensive boondoggles like the bullet-train to nowhere or economically insane wind farms and solar energy experiments outside of Palm Springs. So why no proper …
Governments Can Be As Immoral As Individuals (or even more!) Read More »
We always opposed so-called Hate Crime Legislation enacted under President Clinton in 1994. Whether in favor or against, you’d have to agree that it allows the state to impose different penalties upon two people who committed the identical crime based entirely on what the government decided was in a citizen’s mind. It is usually only …
Was Pres. Trump Wrong To Critique Judge Robart? It Depends… Read More »
From today’s Wall Street Journal: The draft order [to slow the importation of high tech foreign workers] “if signed, risks serious consequences for US-based tech companies’ ability to hire elite global talent,” Blake Irving, chief executive of GoDaddy Inc., said on Wednesday. “To be clear, the entire US economy is at stake with this draft …
In January 1991, during “Desert Storm,” a group of American B52 Stratofortress bombers flew to Iraq, bombed their targets, and returned safely home after 35 non-stop hours airborne. In September 1996, the same type of bomber destroyed Baghdad’s power stations as part of “Desert Strike”. The enormous eight-engine bomber was again used in Yugoslavia in...
The last time we welcomed as president someone who was not of the anointed political elite was 36 years ago when we watched Ronald Wilson Reagan take the oath of office. I am struck by three things about him that I think are as true for President Trump. (1) He may not have been elected …
Well, Barnum and Bailey Circus is shutting down. Everything has its day. Opera and theater used to be for everyone. Now they are kept alive by elite life support. But the end of the circus is a little sad for anyone who remembers the sheer magic of being taken to the big top as a …
May Seem Simple But Riding An Elevator Up a Skyscraper Is No Circus Read More »
