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Your Fair Use rights are in danger (again)

In case you haven't yet, you really need to read about The INDUCE Act. The potential is for any device that could be used to illegally copy copyrighted material to become illegal, and the manufacturers...

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So we\’re complaining about our economy…

OK, so this is a bit late coming, and I haven't really been able to think this through as well as I should, so I hope some other people will think through it with me. The problem: Our trade deficit is...

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The government exists to protect and serve its citizens, not the other way...

"If I had to choose between government without newspapers, and newspapers without government, I wouldn't hesitate to choose the latter." -- Thomas Jefferson Today, half of U.S. high school students...

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Another story of eminent domain gone wrong

Eminent domain is supposed to be used for the greater good, such as when a building is falling down and endangering people but the owner refuses to take care of the problem, or when a road is needed...

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Take some steps to improve your health today

So Michael Moore has a new movie out, this time taking on the touchy topic of health care. I was a very outspoken opponent of Hillary Clinton's plan 15 years ago. I'm extremely disappointed that the...

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What net neutrality means and why it\’s a good thing

This week, John C. Dvorak makes a good argument in favor of net neutrality. I'm going to take it from a different angle. I am a conservative. While I rarely vote a straight Republican ticket, I am...

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How does the live-within-your-means movement apply to the current recession?

Joseph brought up some good points in the comments for the previous entry, and I don't think a short response does them justice. He wants to know what the personal finance experts have to say about the...

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I didn’t cause the depression

Various analysts are blaming the current depression on people like me. The reasoning goes like this: I have money in the bank, therefore, I should be out spending it, for the greater good, to stir the...

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How the Republican Party is losing me

I tend to lean to the right. For as long as I understood what it meant to be conservative or liberal, Republican or Democrat, I called myself a conservative Republican. In college, I wrote a newspaper...

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What your health insurance company doesn’t want you to know

My wife is a Type 1 diabetic. She’s the type of person insurance companies go out of their way to deny coverage for, and while I suppose I can say I’m used to them not covering her without a fight, I’m...

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Here we go again. Net neutrality is not Obamacare either.

To nobody’s particular surpise, yesterday president Barack Obama endorsed a form of net neutrality. And immediately, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) came out swinging against it, calling it, “Obamacare for the...

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