I like the word “no.” Â It instills a sense of understanding from almost everyone I say it to — whether it’s someone I love and care for, or a customer who has high hopes for me...
There’s an aphorism that us free marketeers say often: “If you subsidize something, you get more of it.” That’s always the case when government starts a “war” on some...
When Amazon decided to try to fight publishers by telling them they were going to sell e-books at a fixed price ($9.99), Apple came in with their iPad and another e-book store to give publishers the option...
I voted today. Not in a voting booth, and not with a ballot. I voted today when I woke up. Â My internal alarm clock told me I had to get up early, so at just before 6am, I arose. Â I turned on the lamp...
RC2 Corp, headquartered in Oak Brook, Illinois, and one of its subsidiaries, Learning Curve Brands, Inc., was hit with a $1.25 million fine for knowingly importing and selling Thomas & Friends toys...
Only accounting for 3% of GM’s Tonawanda plant’s production, General Motors finally retired their L18 V-8 big block engine on Friday, December 18, 2009. Dating back over 50 years, the big...
“I did not run for office to be helping out a bunch of fat-cat bankers on Wall Street,” President Barack Obama said when interviewed by 60 Minutes on CBS. Here we have what we’ve always...
Climate-Gate is big in the news, bigger in the blogosphere, and seems to be cluttering up my Facebook newsfeed with debate points from both sides. As with anything to do with corporate-shill “science,”...
It’s a sure-fire news topic of 2010: overcriminalizing. The Federal government is doing it (even though the Constitution restricts the Federal government to only criminalizing things like piracy...
The story of Michele Mallin starts out heartbreaking.  At the age of 20, she was a victim of sexual assault.  In 1985, she was a student of Texas Tech University in Lubbock, TX.  Mallin was walking...
Republicans are known for their warmonger appointments to unelected positions. Â Democrats are no better, although this time the enemy is you and I. Â When Obama picked Biden as his VP candidate, people...
When I say that Public Leaders should be taken out and beaten, I don’t mean the actual people given that title: I mean the title itself. Â A cursory GoogleNews search for the term brings up 73 results....
The job of the President is to execute the Constitution.  For those unfamiliar with this document, it is the legal paperwork that restrains government from trampling on the rights of individuals.  It...
I had to laugh for 30 minutes straight when I heard the news that Mayor Daley’s choice for Chicago Schools CEO was Ron Huberman, and that he was approved unanimously by the Chicago School Board....
According to Street and Smith’s Sports Business Journal, the Chicago White Sox baseball team have designed a new Sox cap that introduces the Obama campaign logo on the front and back of the cap....
In Chicago, we have an odd procedure that city residents use to call “dibs” on public street parking spots outside of their homes and apartments: they actually put old furniture and other junk...
There’s word out in the mainstream and alternative presses that President Barack Obama may want to (or feel like he needs to) lower taxes to allow for middle income families to spend more, pay down...
I tried watching the news today, I really did. Â All I saw were indoctrinated little children in substandard public schools cheering what basically is the changing of the guard. Â Did the public-union...
Breaking news is that Senator Ted Kennedy may have collapsed during the inauguration luncheon. More updates as it happens. 1:55PM CST Update: He may have been taken away in an ambulance, according to...
I’m subscribed to a variety of odd online groups to monitor where some traffic comes from. Â This morning I was reading through those odds-and-edds of groups, when I came across something not really...

