Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke quest for more power to centrally control the market make sense because the Federal Reserve is such a phenomenal success. Like any bureaucrat, Bernanke is seeking to increase its organization, despite evidences that might suggest the opposite approach. What makes this worse is that we are being requested to hand [...]
Here is another case of typical over reaction - probably someone that isn’t busy with real work to do:
CHILDREN as young as three will undergo compulsory exercise regimes of up to two hours every day in preschools.
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Star jumps, action-singing songs as well as catching, jumping and running are just some of the exercises included in [...]
If big government is such a great thing why does it use newspeak?
Title definition here.
In his, as always wonderful, column George Will suggests that declaring the polar bear as threatened species is a symptom for much bigger phenomena:
Now that polar bears are wards of the government, and now that it is a legal doctrine that humans are responsible for global warming, the Endangered Species Act has acquired unlimited application. [...]
In november the American voters will have to choose between this:
“serving a cause greater than self-interest.”
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“We are fast becoming a nation of alienating individualists, unwilling to put the unifying values of patriotism ahead of our narrow self-interests,” Mr. McCain warned in a speech during his 2000 presidential campaign. He added that “cynicism threatens to become [...]
The few readers of this blog already know that I hold quite an extreme position on government regulating social affairs. I don’t think that the government should regulate, for example, who should a corporation hire or not, what will be the compensation and many other issues. One exception for this rule is, obviously, the government. [...]
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 [...]