Rogel @ April 29, 2008 # No Comment Yet
There is very little in common between the crazy FLDS cult, which is now all over the news, and Professor Christopher Ratte and his wife Professor Claire Zimmerman. And yet it is obvious for most of us that taking all the children from the FLDS compound in Texas was justified but we nodding our heads […]
Rogel @ March 24, 2008 # 12 Comments
Who in his or her right mind would choose to elect a tyrant that, when in office, will start dictating things like:
…government programs to help people “quit smoking, to get more exercise, to eat right, to take their vitamins.”
The only parental tyranny acceptable is my mother’s, and even she knew at some point to lay […]
Rogel @ March 13, 2008 # 2 Comments
We know big government does not have all the answers. We know there’s not a program for every problem. We have worked to give the American people a smaller, less bureaucratic government in Washington. And we have to give the American people one that lives within its means.
The era of big government is over. But […]
Rogel @ March 6, 2008 # One Comment
One of the problems with Business people becoming politician is that the failed to see the differences between the business world and the political system. It is easy to see the similarities - management to large systems, Producing results and so on. But these similarities are often deceiving. While running a business is often about […]
Rogel @ February 11, 2008 # No Comment Yet
While Senator McCain is busy convincing GOP voters that he is true conservative, a term that need clarification to begin with, I stumble upon a news report that demonstrates McCain’s conservative credentials. Apparently Senator McCain, in his roll of senior good doer, was successful in forming a new federal agency - this time to regulate […]
Rogel @ December 5, 2007 # 2 Comments
This is a holiday I was fast to adopt - happy Repeal Day everyone.
Rogel @ November 2, 2007 # No Comment Yet
When I saw the Daily Show piece on banning cupcakes in NY schools I was pretty sure it is only a joke. Surely, I thought, it can’t be real. But I decided to check it anyway, and to my great surprise I found that it is nothing but a joke.
First I found out that worried school district […]
Rogel @ August 7, 2007 # No Comment Yet
As annoying and disturbing the idea of banning the use of certain words is, I doubt the ability of practically implement it. It is the idea, that the government should be busy telling people how to behave, that anger me. However the focus should be not at the stupid idea of banning words, nor at […]
Rogel @ August 7, 2007 # One Comment
The city of New York in its war on personal choice, and individual rights, considering a new target - the first amendment. The busybody banning bad things city already joined the crusade to prevent from mothers the choice to decide that they would not want to breast feed. But why stop in health issues? We have […]
Rogel @ July 9, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Adopting the British bad example of building a web of telescreens to monitors its citizens, NYC is demonstrating that smoking bans and Trans-fat bans were only a humble beginning:
By the end of this year, police officials say, more than 100 cameras will have begun monitoring cars moving through Lower Manhattan, the beginning phase of a […]