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The T-E-A reportedly stands for “taxed-enough-already”….but that is clearly too simplistic of a complaint to found a movement. For if, G-d forbid, our country was attacked – not a single tea partier would probably feel that he/she shouldn’t sacrifice more in order to help fund our defense. So what does it mean to be a [...]

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I’m going to purposely make some drastic simplifications – but in the simplification, we may actually be able to view "the truth".  In order to understand "cost" we have to understand what we mean by "productivity". A workable definition of "PRODUCTIVITY" is a measure of how efficient you are at converting people’s "time" into "goods [...]

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While people may have lots of views on the advisability of establishing some kind of Government-supplied, taxpayer funded universal health insurance – the debate itself leaves a lot to be desired.  Most of the mis-information and confusion comes from the lack of understanding of what "insurance" is. In short, health insurance is a "pooled asset" [...]

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Americans do relish their marketing buzz words…we search for those short, pithy phrases that embody our ethos – define “who we are”. In no other debate do we seem to find two camps neatly defined by their simple buzzword monikers: Pro-choice and Pro-life. Both “life” and “choice” are good things… things that we all should [...]

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In the last part of my message to you,  [click here] I congratulated you on an excellent campaign and expressed many of my concerns and disappointments in what has transpired.   I expressed mostly a disappointment in the "press"…the profession of journalism but mostly I was disappointed with the 62 million Americans who voted for Obama [...]

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About this time during any Israeli attempt to deal with the terrorist hordes which surround her, with the punctual precision of the precession of the earth about the sun bringing spring flowers, world leaders trot out the old tired indictment that Israel is guilty of using “disproportionate force”.

I must admit that when someone I know trots out the indictment of disproportionate force, my first impulse is to say something to the effect: “That’s the stupidest comment I’ve ever heard”.

Lately, however, I’ve started to actually listen to those who complain that Israel is using “disproportionate force”.

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The secular humanist’s have come out with a new slick ad campaign for the upcoming Christmas season – Why Believe in God? Just be good for goodness’ sake

Apparently, they feel lonely on Christmas and are trying to get some “good cheer” from their fellow secular humanists and other athiests during those cold, dark winter months.

But they ask a good question, and it deserves an answer.

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Dear Obama supporter,

First off, I want to congratulate you on an excellently run campaign. Your candidate spoke eloquently and remained focused. Obama said many things, many of which I agreed wholeheartedly. While I can’t possibly believe in his financial plan, I couldn’t believe in McCain’s either – America is in a mess as a result of unwarranted consumption and financial overreaching – we will get out of this mess by hard work, saving and investing in the future. While I bristled at Bush’s advice to the American people after 9/11 of “[paraphrasing...] continue living life normally, don’t stop shopping”… I was pleased to hear both McCain’s and Obama’s message for people to come and “serve their country”.

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Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer, and the bill for all ten comes to $100. If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this: The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing. The fifth would pay $1. The sixth would pay $3. [...]

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When you strip away all the rhetoric that has flown by this election season, the basic question facing voters when looking at the Democrats agenda vs. the Republican’s agenda with respect to taxation is simply this: “Who should distribute your money to others: Joe the Plumber or Bill the Bureaucrat?” Joe the Plumber clearly has [...]

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