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Category: Daily Dose of Reason
Show Them the Exit
Most people waste time on people who are no good for them — in business or personal lives. What’s needed with a toxic or undesirable person is an exit strategy. Forget all the analysis about “why is the person the … Continue reading
Meet Obama’s Mentor: Herbert Hoover
Huge government tax increases, enormous increases in government spending for “welfare” programs, an increase of the federal government’s share of Gross National Product (GNP) upward from 16.4% to 21.5%, and a general expansion of governmental regulatory authority over major sectors … Continue reading
Rwanda Shows the Way
“We believe in private enterprise, free market, and competition…So we have to make sure there is a conducive environment for people to be creative and innovate.” “We can only have ourselves to blame for our failures. We don’t expect anyone … Continue reading
The Government With the Most is the Least
People who favor the government or public sector over private enterprise claim, “The public sector is more honest. The private sector is so full of fraud and corruption that the government can hardly regulate it.” The exact opposite is true. … Continue reading
Political Hacks: No Match for Unhampered Capitalism
Barney Frank and Chris Dodd are two of the primary people in charge of rewriting the rules of banking in America — and, for that matter, the entire world. They are deemed qualified to do so on the premise that … Continue reading
Why ObamaCare Isn’t New Coke
Prominent Democrat Patrick Caddell recently wrote a column in the Wall Street Journal (4/24/10) about how ObamaCare is, he says, like New Coke. New Coke was put on the market by Coca Cola back in 1985. It was Coca Cola … Continue reading
Possible
Don’t reject something for its failure to live up to the impossible. If you do, you’ll miss out on the possible.
Facts are Healthy
A fact is never harmful. It’s not always pleasant — but it’s never harmful to know.
Life on Earth Day
I’m not celebrating “Earth Day.” I’m celebrating “Life on Earth” Day. Earth, by itself, has no meaning to me — nor to any human being who gives it a minute of thought. The purpose of those who promote “Earth Day” … Continue reading
Ideas, Not Circumstances, Create Moods
People sometimes say, “He’s having a hard time because of his situation” or, “I’m depressed because of what happened to me.” Actually, it’s not events (or people) that “make” you feel a certain way. It’s your thoughts and ideas that … Continue reading
Hitler and Obama: At Root, the Same Ideology
Adolf Hitler: “In the Jewish people the will to self-sacrifice does not go beyond the individual’s naked instinct of self-preservation…His [the Jew’s] sense of sacrifice is only apparent…Here again the Jew is led by nothing but the naked egoism of … Continue reading