I wonder if the ludicrous amount of media hype dedicated to the Oh-my-god-it’s-the-swine-flu-come-to-kill-us-all! has anything to do with trying to scare people into accepting healthcare reform. For the record, I’m all for healthcare reform, but I don’t appreciate fear tactics towards any end. The regular old flu is projected to kill more people this flu [...]
Do I have this straight? Democrats just passed a bill that will take $2B of money we don’t have from future ordinary taxpayers, and we will give that money as a reward to people who selfishly bought gas guzzling cars, most of whom are relatively wealthy SUV owners, so that our automotive industry can stay [...]
A while back I wrote about how the present financial crisis may be the “rock bottom” that precedes better days ahead for the country. A return to our better natures, I hope, and not just a prelude to a collapse. My hope on that front was given a boost when I recently discovered that the [...]
The Democrats went back on their promise to allow a 48 hour period for congress to read the 1000+ pages that comprise the stimulus package just passed. That means that our leaders just spent 800 billion dollars of our children’s money without even knowing what they were voting on. That’s roughly $8,000 for every taxpayer [...]
In the stimulus package passed by the wise souls of the US Senate, the NIH budgets will get a boost of around ten billion, along with many more to health services in general, with little to nothing going to the NSF. I won’t venture to judge the relative merits of the NSF versus the NIH [...]
California has announced that it will hold on to tax refunds for 30 days. Given that tax refunds are the property of taxpayers, and not something the state has any legal right to, this amounts to California literally stealing money from over two million residents. At least it’s only for a month, but it’s not [...]
It’s understandable to recognize legal rights for couples in the law, but it was flat out wrong (and probably even unconstitutional) to base the definition of those unions on anything having to do with religion.
