Blog entries

Searching for Teddy Roosevelt’s Vision for the American Way of Life

David Lantz — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 08:08:23 +0100

The issue of illegal immigration, having festered for the last decade, is now coming to a boil. Beginning in the early 2000s, as Americans have been forced to deal with the crushing costs of our social entitlement programs, we have sought to limit illegal immigration as a way of reducing the welfare costs associated with many such immigrants. More recently, the issuRead More...

Seeing Clearly to Sever the Gordian Knot of Regulatory Strangulation

David Lantz — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 00:47:40 +0100

The American Dream is on life support. It has been mugged and beaten by the mentality that says anything you do that I don’t like, I will sue you for. It has been crushed by a government bureaucracy that passes rule after rule, expecting small businesses as well as large to comply, or suffer the consequences. A 2010 report by the Small Business Administration titled The Impact of Regulatory Costs on Small Firms found that; “As ofRead More...

Economics: Using 2020 Vision to Discern Fact vs. Rhetoric

David Lantz — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 21:35:42 +0100

Modern America is consumed by a 24/7 news cycle, where the talking heads focus on one-sentence sound bites. Questions which end in the request to “please answer yes or no” pass for sophisticated journalistic inquiry. In such a system, we cannot hope to identify, let alone solve, problems. One side appeals to “Reaganomics”, the other to “Obamanomics,” yet neither side seeks to educate the pRead More...

Budget Wars: Lemmings Face a Debt Cliff

David Lantz — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 09:03:49 +0100

Before I get to the facts about the debt ceiling, we have this report from our embedded reporter, John Stewart, as he accompanies the President of the Lemmings aboard his flag ship, The Death Spiral. Our reporter indicates the President wants to lead his faithful lemmings off the cliff in an effort to “Win The Future”.

Lemmings off the cliff

Restoring Faith, Family and the American Work Ethic

A funny thing happened while we were busy erecting the wall of separation between church and state. So many vines and weeds grew up around the wall, that it not only caused the wall to crumble, it caused America to crumble.

The Clash of Cultures and the Gray Champion

The July-August issue of the American Spectator has an article that has caught fire among conservatives, especially Rush Limbaugh. In this issue, there’s an article titled "America's Ruling Class and the Perils of Revolution" by Angelo CoRead More...