Opinion
Obamacare and Economic Stimulus Logic
Written by Becky Akers
“For decades rising health care costs have unleashed havoc on families, businesses and the economy,” President Barack Obama declared in October, during his surge for socialized medicine. Indeed, he frequently inveighs against the horrors if we don’t nationalize medical insurance: "We cannot continue down the same dangerous road we've been traveling for so many years,” he insists, “with costs that are out of control…"
Our dreadful destiny was that we were either going to starve to death or be buried by advancing glaciers in a new Ice Age.
In its efforts to be politically correct, the U.S. Postal Service has decided to issue holiday stamps to accommodate the beliefs and non-beliefs of everyone. In the old days the Postal Service issued a traditional Christmas stamp based on Christian beliefs. After all, Christmas is about the birth of Jesus Christ, not the birth of anyone else.
Liberty's Limits
Written by Becky AkersGovernment is — or ought to be — limited. Severely, in fact. But what about liberty? Does it have limits, too?We’re tempted to answer, “Heck, no!” because freedom is so intoxicating. Who doesn’t want to be master of his own fate, without overseers to steal our wealth while forcibly preventing us from living where we choose, or practicing the profession we please, who compel us to go where we don’t want to, whether into prison or overseas to kill people with whom we’ve never quarreled?
Clemmons’ Clemency
Written by Becky AkersCheer that rarest of events: one of our rulers told the truth! Granted, presidential wannabee Mike Huckabee has an ulterior motive — but heck, he wouldn’t be a politician otherwise.
