John Gardner

Edward Snowden is a man and John Kerry is a thug. Shane Kastler put it better than I could. If you've been following the Snowden/NSA situation at all, or even if you haven't but have been curious... Kastler's post is well worth the read.

I think taxes are morally reprehensible. Taxes rob an entire population of its financial resources in favor of a tiny political elite that has a long-term track record of incompetence and deceit. ~Simon BlackIn "celebration" of tax day I give you this wonderful quote from a recent Simon Black post

If women were truly paid $0.77 for every dollar earned by men for truly equivalent work as the President has claimed multiple times during his administration, most recently during the 2014 State of the Union address, then the smart businessman would simply fire all the men and replace them

The Providence Journal reported that Cox Communications will be eliminating 234 jobs from their West Warwick facility. In response to that, RI State Rep Ray Hull has forwarded a bill to the General Assembly: New bill in RIGA would force Cox to keep RI call center open. Another would force

Excellent video on how Detroit's fall was linked to government favoritism. The moral of the story is if you as a taxpayer don't want to be on the hook for someone else's bad management, take power away from government, don't give it more.

I have no issues if 2 gay people want to get married. I don't get hung up on the notion that marriage is only between a man and a woman because marriage is a human construct; the only restrictions in place are the ones we place on it. The most

On 60 minutes we got to see what Jeff Bezos' idea of the future is. In a word, octocopters. The Amazon founder and CEO would like to see a future in which unmanned drones are able to deliver small shipments of goods directly to people's homes within 30 minutes of

The answer may surprise you.

As per the norm, Dr. Sowell gets right down to brass tacks and lays out who's responsible for the fact that 20% of the federal government is shut down.

[L]et me offer you my definition of social justice: I keep what I earn and you keep what you earn. Do you disagree? Well then tell me how much of what I earn belongs to you - and why. ~ Walter WilliamsThat's the kind of social justice I can support.

A somewhat wonkish look at the federal government's budget and what it would take to balance it. The tl;dr version: Politicians spend absolute truckloads of our money, borrow/print even more, and there's nowhere near enough political will (driven primarily by the desires of constituents) to change it.

Chris Dodd and Barney Frank were on CNBC a couple days ago discussing the 5yr anniversary of the failure of Lehman Brothers and the start of the financial crisis. In watching that video I witnessed two amazing things. Former Congressman Frank trying to rewrite history and paint himself the lowly