(With an Added Bonus Regarding Negative Politics)
What follows is an excerpt from a book I sort-of published in the mid-1990’s.  By “sort of”, I mean that it was rejected by some of the finest publishing houses in America because it was too long (560 pages) and had a limited potential market.  The Republican National Committee [...]

Here’s an old joke most of us have heard:
Q:    How can you tell when politicians are lying?
A:    Their lips are moving.
Here’s not-a-joke that most people don’t know:
Q:    Why do politicians lie?
A:    Because voters will not tolerate truth from politicians.
Bear with me as I take a somewhat roundabout way of demonstrating my point.
While it may not [...]

[9:57] Obama is talking about my “right” to health care (McCain may have referred to it that way as well - I can’t remember). I want someone to provide for me the philosophical basis of that assertion. Tell me why we ought to tack “health care” on to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness [...]

SNL lampoons the mortgage crisis:

I have a bone to pick with individuals who teach statistics.
A standard deviation is a measure of the average distance between data points and their mean. Thus, if one’s dataset contained the numbers 2, 4, 6, and 8, the mean would be 20/4 = 5 (the sum divided by the number of data points). A [...]

Among the many virtues of Governor Palin is her willingness - if not eagerness - to self-identify as a feminist.
I realize that the term causes no small amount of discomfort for most conservatives, and many libertarians; this is understandable, as feminism’s extreme genera are responsible for more intellectual atrocities than I can count (here’s a [...]

While I’m almost certain this point has been made elsewhere, having failed to hear it in the general press, I am compelled to make it here: the only reason anybody has taken notice of Sarah Palin’s daughter, her husband’s tryst with the Alaskan Independence Party, or her dismissal of Walter Monegan is because no one [...]

It ain’t worth a pitcher of warm piss!*
- John Nance Garner, VP under FDR
[* The media in the 1940's were unable to print this pithy quote verbatim and substituted “spit” for “piss”. The quote is repeated accurately but, frankly, I like “spit” better.]
The nation waited with ‘bated breath to learn whom Barak Obama would [...]

Two men from Dahlonega, Georgia have recently claimed to be in possession of Bigfoot’s carcass.
Dahlonega is the home of my Alma Mater, North Georgia College and State University. I lived there for three years.
I don’t know the guys, but this story tells me that one of two things has happened in the area I used [...]

Benjamin Powell, an economist at Suffolk University, has written an excellent piece on sweatshops.
This is a must-read for anyone who spends even a moderate amount of time marinating in righteous indignation on the subject of foreign labor. I saw Dr. Powell give a lecture along the same lines a number of years ago; the article [...]