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(11/03/11 1:05am)
In a discussion I had with fellow columnist Neil Weinberg, I admitted I couldn’t tell him exactly what the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protesters were against, or what the desired outcome was for the demonstrations, but I did know they were protesting in the right place.
(10/24/11 1:11am)
“A senior Senate Democrat released a draft of a sprawling revision of the No Child Left Behind education law on Tuesday that would dismantle the provisions of the law that used standardized test scores in reading and math to label tens of thousands of public schools as failing,” reported the New York Times on Oct. 11.
(10/12/11 11:49pm)
This week I was somewhat dismayed by the items I saw on the Michigan Legislature’s agenda. They obviously didn’t follow the instructions in my column last week on repairing the economy.
(10/05/11 10:45pm)
“China is Michigan’s third-biggest export market after Canada and Mexico…” reported the Detroit News, commenting on Gov. Rick Snyder’s eight day tour around Asia. “Sales to China in 2010 totaled $2.2 billion, up from about $700 million five years earlier.”
(09/29/11 1:47am)
As a rule of thumb, economists usually insist that a tax system is equitable, feasible, easy to collect and fair. If President Obama’s idea for a millionaire’s tax and the dissent that followed is any indicator, politicians still can’t agree on what fair is. This is why the FairTax, also known as Congressional bills H.R. 25/ S. 13, is so interesting.
(09/22/11 2:34am)
In late January of this year I wrote an article entitled “Free-Marketeers Have it Wrong,” which received some lively comments. I had taken the time to read the writings of Ludwig von Mises, Congressman Ron Paul and Milton Friedman in preparation.
(08/26/11 7:55pm)
I have several bad memories from math class where I would walk to the front of the class countless times only to hear my arithmetic was wrong. The current debate over the debt
ceiling from the Republican Party is giving me flashbacks.
(04/06/11 11:42pm)
One of my favorite songs is “What Becomes of the Brokenhearted?” by Jimmy Ruffin. I started thinking about the song after reading about how the effects of long-term unemployment are crippling my generation. Albeit the song is talking about love rather than joblessness, I think the lyrics can serve as the somber anthem for this generation, nonetheless.
(03/30/11 11:31pm)
A few weeks ago on The Daily Show, host Jon Stewart sat down with the newbie senator from Kentucky, Rand Paul. The two discussed the budget, running deficits and the Tea Party. It all seemed so genuine, however, the most striking segment of the conversation surrounded federal regulations and the right place for the government in the marketplace.
(03/23/11 11:47pm)
I loathe Evan Bayh, the former senator from Indiana, and either for reasons of catharsis or clarity, I thought it necessary to dedicate an entire column to my dislike of the “Democrat.” A few weeks ago, I read Bayh was signing on to be a contributor for Fox News, and without shock but much chagrin, I thought this is exactly the conundrum “centrists” pose for the Democratic Party.
(03/16/11 11:59pm)
Last week, I wrote the Republican Party is suffering from an illness. At first my diagnosis was simply the carunculous Tea Party, but now I feel it is something different, or at least more than first suspected. The symptoms seem much more cerebral. It is as if the party has been suffering from a “brain-drain” as of late.
(03/06/11 9:50pm)
America’s two political parties have faced off with factions within their houses before, The Republican Party emerged from the Whig Party in the 1800s, and the Democrats had to fight with the Dixiecrats in the 1940s. However, this time around, it seems the Republican Party is facing a division much more cancerous than anything seen before.
(02/20/11 9:15pm)
President Obama is no Franklin Delano Roosevelt. I thought it was appropriate to make this distinction on President’s Day. It was on the cover of Time magazine where I first saw the absurd comparison of the 44th president to the 32nd.
(02/13/11 9:55pm)
Frederick Douglass delivered the speech in 1852 titled “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” The speech posed the question of what cause for celebration was there for slaves when they were not granted the freedoms given to most Americans.
(02/03/11 12:52am)
It’s simple economics when you think about it, with a mounting debt, the United States has come to a crossroads where it is going to have to make a “guns or butter” kind of decision.
(01/26/11 9:53pm)
Athos, Porthos and Aramis, the crusaders from the novel “The Three Musketeers” by Alexandre Dumas reminded me of another trio of crusaders in America: Alan Greenspan, Ron Paul and Glenn Beck.
(01/20/11 1:32am)
I recently started reading a book titled, “What’s the Matter with Kansas” by Thomas Frank. Frank, a native of Kansas, investigated and questioned how his home state full of rural farmers and a once bedrock of liberalism could become the deeply red state it is today.
(01/20/11 12:44am)
In his inaugural address Jan. 1, Governor Rick Snyder declared “the birth of a new chapter in Michigan’s history” as well as a “reinvention of Michigan,” but some are saying, not so fast.
(01/20/11 12:42am)
The state of Michigan is facing a budget shortfall of $1.85 billion. Many seeking degrees in education are concerned with this figure as states trying to slash spending often have education first on the chopping block.
(01/13/11 1:34am)
During a recent senatorial debate in Delaware, Republican candidate Christine O’Donnell made the mistake of saying the “separation of church and state” does not appear in the Constitution.