1. The Law of the Lid
Your leadership ability creates a lid on your effectiveness. You cannot be more effective than the level of your leadership will allow.
2. The Law of Influence
Leadership = Influence. It is as simple as that. The person who has the most influence in an [...]
What are the top three things Congress is concerned about right now? Healthcare, cap and trade, and um, well healthcare. This is ridiculous. I am incredibly sick of the healthcare debate, and that is partly why I haven’t been writing much recently. It’s just not interesting anymore and it is [...]
The Senate just voted to extend the cash for clunkers program to the tune of another $2 billion dollars. Here are the top 10 new cars purchased under the cash for clunkers program:
1. Toyota Corolla
2. Ford Focus FWD
3. Honda Civic
4. Toyota Prius
5. Toyota [...]
I have long been a believer that the role of elected officials should be to enact policies that they believe to be the best ideas, not necessarily the policies that the people want. To this end I think we should spend less time worrying about their [...]
According to the New York Times three Senate Republicans: Michael B. Enzi of Wyoming, Charles E. Grassley of Iowa and Olympia J. Snowe of Maine, are working together with the Democrats to help construct a version of the Health Care Bill that would provide health insurance to more of [...]
On Monday the various organizations representing minority broadcasters came together to ask for bailout money “akin to that given to the banking and auto industry”. I was so blown away at this that I had come up with an angry post to write, but I decided this would do better [...]
In the midst of cash for clunkers, cap and trade, and universal health care, we add to the list … a resolution honoring Michael Jackson. You can read it here.
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee apparently isn’t paying attention to what is actually going on, and somehow [...]
The House just passed the ridiculous cap and trade bill. Congress is also working on cash for clunkers, a bill designed to get rid of gas guzzlers and get you to buy a new car you can’t afford. For a 2 miles per gallon improvement the government will [...]
Interestingly, the U.S. Supreme Court today found in favor of the white firefighters that filed suit when they were denied promotions because no African Americans did well enough on tae exam to earn a promotion to lieutenant or captain. Current Supreme Court Justice Nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor was a [...]
The cap and trade energy bill just passed the House with only 3 hours of debate. This wonderful bill will get rid of millions of American jobs while increasing the cost of living for everyone in America. What a wonderful idea in the middle of a recession. The bill will [...]
You think health care is expensive now? Just wait until it’s free. This wonderful bit from yahoo gives you an idea of what is on the way:
Across the Capitol, Democrats on the House Ways and Means Committee privately circulated a list of possible tax increases to pay for expanded [...]
Cash for clunkers is a plan by Congress to give you 3500 - 4500 dollars in hopes that you will make a bad decision with your money to help out the Detroit automakers.
This table from USAToday.com gives a good summary of the program.
So, [...]
For some reason the email subscriptions recently stopped working. I think that I fixed it, and this is going to be a test of that. If you haven’t received any emails lately, you may want to take a look at what you missed. I apologize for the mishap. If you [...]
To be honest, I don’t really know why GM and Chrysler are closing dealerships. They have taken Billions of dollars from the government in bailouts, and as part of the restructuring they are closing thousands of dealerships. I’ve talked to several people and read several articles, and nobody really seems [...]
18 firefighters, 17 white and 1 Hispanic, have brought a lawsuit versus the city of New Haven for discrimination. The city fire department administered civil service tests for promotions. 27 blacks took the test, but none of them scored high enough to be considered for promotion. The city decided to [...]
Democrats in the House blocked the investigation of Speaker Pelosi for her recent comments saying the CIA misled Congress by a vote of 252-172.
Bipartisan? Hardly. “The most honest, most open, and most ethical Congress in history.” Right. Sure. Whatever you say hopefully soon to be former [...]
Just got this heads-up from Daniel Kamerling…
Dear Libertarian activists,
Thank you so much! Because of your support, the show “Freedom Watch” is finally being considered for an open time slot on Fox news. You know what that means? A Libertarian television show would be on mainstream media! Finally a show [...]
Full disclosure: I think torture is wrong. Derek and I disagree, and argue, about this weekly. My problems with torture are entirely an ethical one, however, and have nothing to do with the legality of the issue. Would you like to know why? Because, I’m Am [...]
