“Dr. Franklin, what have you given us, a republic or a monarchy?” To which he replied, “A republic, madam, if you can keep it.”

I pray we can keep it. I fear we will lose it.

Several years back, when I was doing some software training at a company in Green Tree, we (the trainers) were all standing around the reception desk during the students’ morning break. Our supervisor came by (a former trainer, and an Ed major), and passed around a resume for us to look at as a potential [...]

So I’m going through Facebook tonight and I see the following: Way to go Gov. Kasich cut 132 million from the schools and laying [off] many teachers…just keep cutting the future away… So what are the actual facts? Let’s start with something I heard Huckabee say a while back. I’m paraphrasing here, but the gist [...]

When companies are forced to pay more for labor than it is actually worth, the difference between the value of the labor and the cost of the labor is passed onto the consumer in higher prices.

Back in 1994, after the Republicans won control of both houses of Congress, there was some discussion of defunding public broadcasting. However, talk was pretty much all that happened. The CPB launched a 2-pronged advertising offensive on their affiliates whose message could be summed up by the following catch phrases. If public broadcasting doesn’t do [...]

…the “DISCLOSE Act” would extend the FEC’s control over broadcast communications to all “covered communications,” including the blogosphere.

The good news…no more snarlin’ Arlen. The bad news…no more snarlin’ Arlen.

With Stevens’ retirement, the court will be rid of a man whose utter indifference to the Constitution was evident in virtually all his opinions. While this is a good thing, I fear his indifference will be replaced with outright hostility, assuming that BHO selects another individual that reflects his own attitude toward the Constitution.

The rest of the issue of perceptions is this. America is a nation of ambivalent attitudes. We are nominally a meritocracy, not an aristocracy. We do believe that the better candidate should win. We won’t vote for someone who sounds like an idiot, but we also have a great distrust for intellectuals.

I will not rest….BHO.