Today, May 3rd, is voting day here in Ohio. Do you exercise your right to vote? I hope you do because too many soldiers fought and died for your right to do so. Too many men laid face down on the shores of Normandy, froze to death on the plains of Europe, and burned on the decks of ships in the Pacific for us to shirk our responsibility to vote!
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Thomas Sowell
Tuesday, February 09, 2010
From TownHall.com
If there is ever a contest to pick which word has done the most damage to people’s thinking, and to actions to carry out that thinking, my nomination would be the word “fair.” It is a word thrown around by far more people than have ever bothered to even try to define it.
This mushy vagueness may be a big handicap in logic but it is a big advantage in politics. All sorts of people, with very different notions about what is or is not fair, can be mobilized behind this nice-sounding word, in utter disregard of the fact that they mean very different things when they use that word.
Some years ago, for example, there was a big outcry that various mental tests used for college admissions or for employment were biased and “unfair” to many individuals or groups. Fortunately there was one voice of sanity– David Riesman, I believe– who said: “The tests are not unfair. LIFE is unfair and the tests measure the results.”
Continue reading The Fallacy of “Fairness”
Thomas Paine has some good ideas. This six minute video only has 10 million views . . .
With all the spending and government promises, are we on the road to socialism in America? This poster started showing up in L.A. over the past weekend. Many people call it mean spirited but I wonder if they thought the same depiction of G.W. Bush was also mean spirited (in a nationally syndicated magazine, not just a few local posters.)
Of course, there have been other posters popping up on the net: of which my favorite is below.
“One day we will face our children and grandchildren as they ask us what we found more important and valuable than freedom. They will ask if our big, unaffordable homes, “free” universal health care, and “buy it now” lifestyle were worth enslaving them for. How will you answer?” From Glenn Beck’s new book: Common Sense, where he questions all the government spending.
His book is a great $6 read. Pick it up at Wal-mart or here at Amazon.
Paul Orfalea has a great blog (linked over on the right) and he has a great post about the healthcare questions we aren’t asking.
“How would decisions differ if you, rather than Medicare, had to pay for your 85-year-old father’s hip replacement? Would you mortgage your home or business to pay for the surgery, or move into a smaller home? Would you sacrifice your child’s college fund to keep a vegetative parent on a heart-lung machine for weeks or months? Some people really face these choices every day; others don’t have to think twice, because someone else is footing the bill.”
Society sure has changed since Social (in)Security and Medicare have arrived on the scene. Read more of his blog here.
AUSTIN – Gov. Rick Perry joined state Rep. Brandon Creighton and sponsors of House Concurrent Resolution (HCR) 50 in support of states’ rights under the 10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
“I believe that our federal government has become oppressive in its size, its intrusion into the lives of our citizens, and its interference with the affairs of our state,” Gov. Perry said. “That is why I am here today to express my unwavering support for efforts all across our country to reaffirm the states’ rights affirmed by the Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. I believe that returning to the letter and spirit of the U.S. Constitution and its essential 10th Amendment will free our state from undue regulations, and ultimately strengthen our Union.”
Perry continued: “Millions of Texans are tired of Washington, DC trying to come down here to tell us how to run Texas.”
Here’s the video: