Recently President Obama has been beating the drum on what is necessary to achieve economic prosperity. At a press conference he mentioned that it was important to “focus” on what was needed to achieve “broad economic growth.” With the highest unemployment in 30 years, that is certainly a message that resonates with most Americans, however, [...]
Recently, I read an article in our local paper that opined passengers should adapt to the new TSA rules, regarding body scans and pat downs, implying that these measures will save lives. I disagree. Think about it. If you are a terrorist involved in a plot to blow up an airplane or hijack it for use [...]
Liberal policy makers seem to live in a dream world. “It is terrible that the working poor have to live on such a low minimum wage,” they say. They address this problem by arbitrarily raising the minimum wage, although many jobs are worth less than the amount they set. This leads to employers laying off many [...]
By Harriet Baskas, msnbc.com A retired special education teacher on his way to a wedding in Orlando, Fla., said he was left humiliated, crying and covered with his own urine after an enhanced pat-down by TSA officers recently at Detroit Metropolitan Airport. “I was absolutely humiliated, I couldn’t even speak,” said Thomas D. “Tom” Sawyer, [...]
It is just like the Great Depression. We have a passionate, but misguided, President who is bent on an agenda of “doing something.” That “something” has been an agenda that members of his own Administration have described as a means of making it worse, in order to change the role of government. Obama and his [...]
Recently I interviewed Gerri Willis of the Fox Business Network on my program, the Price of Business (on CBS Radio) about the number one business story of the third quarter of the year. One area she pointed to was the decline in the Gross Domestic Product in the second quarter. She noted that, after over $700 billion [...]
