Hot Waters May Brew Strong TEA For Election Day Party
Should an employer make an investment to grow a business and create more jobs if the government can change the rules in a way that favors his or her competitor? Of course not. U.S. Representative Maxine Waters (D) recently said the TEA Party could go “straight to hell.” Okay, her words were not appropriate, but maybe there’s a sense in …
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Psychiatrists Are Losing Their Minds
If a powerful voice in psychiatry isn’t silenced, we may find ourselves in a culture that approves pedophilia under the politically correct name, “minor-attracted sexuality”. Some psychiatrists in this country need to see a psychologist or perhaps just a person with common sense to get their own new mental disorder fixed. You won’t believe what they are up to now. …
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Mandating Individual Responsibility
In mandating that everyone have health insurance, the President takes the position that the federal government can mandate that you take personal responsibility. Am I the only one who sees the irony in that? Recently the U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the individual health insurance mandate in the President’s health care law was unconstitutional. And in the …
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No News; Know News
You can’t know the news when the news fails to report it. As best we can tell from our research, not one of the state’s major (or even larger) newspapers covered an important story about an assault on religious liberty by the federal government right here in Tennessee. Here’s the news you don’t know, and not knowing could hurt you. …
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Bert and Ernie: A Teachable Moment
Change.org has started a campaign to encourage the makers of the Sesame Street to have Bert and Ernie get married. It would be a teachable moment for young children that they think should not be wasted. I agree there may be a teachable moment here that we shouldn’t let go to waste. But what should we teach? First, by not …
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What Lt. Governor Wilder Might Have Told the President
The late Lt Governor Wilder, a Southern rural Democrat, is probably rolling over in his grave on account of President Obama’s plan to create jobs through government spending. If he could say something to the President, here’s what I think he’d say. But, by way of background, the other day the President gave a speech in which he called on …
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Time To Pass The President’s Plan
The President is our titular leader. And if ever leadership was needed, it is now on the crisis presented by our national debt and our annual deficit spending. I think it’s time to consider his plan. First, we need to look at his plan for dealing with deficit spending in the current year’s budget. Oh, he hasn’t put one on …
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The Sex Connection
If you’re ready to connect some dots that liberals refuse to connect, then keep reading. A study by a University of Iowa researcher, Anthony Paik, published in the Journal of Marriage and Family (April 2011) is just one more piece of evidence that you can’t divorce social policy and fiscal policy. The study shows that 31 percent of women who …
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A Fine Mess In Tennessee
Often our state tax dollar is being used to draw down another dollar or two from the federal government. So, you cut a dollar from the state budget, and you may actually be losing as much as two or three dollars because you lose the federal “match.” As the proverb says, “The debtor is the slave of the lender.” State …
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Bringing Washington Budget Policies to Tennessee
Is Washington in a mess budget-wise because it spends more money than it takes in? Yes. Is that the reason Washington is in a mess budget-wise? No. Obviously a budget deficit mathematically represents spending in excess of revenue, but is the deficit the problem or a symptom? I confess I don’t know as much about the national budget (of course, …
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