The wild statements against Chick-Fil-A show that local politicians in cities such as Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia and others are intolerant, anti-diversity bigots. No matter what your view on gay marriage, you cannot condone the hatefulness of the mayors of those cities. In fact, since so many Blacks also are against gay marriage, one must ask […]
I cannot believe I still hear people say they believe government is good. As an attorney I interact with lots of other attorneys. While you would think these are generally smart people, I just heard one of them say that he trusts government officials more that business leaders because in the government people are trying […]
I am a Constitutional scholar like our President, and I’ve been asked by quite a few people what I think of the Supreme Court’s decision on Obamacare. I think three things: 1. It is scary to think that a right of personal choice can be taken away from 315 million people by 535 persons in […]
There is a raging debate over open borders and its twin, multiculturalism. Devout libertarians love open borders (see for example my favorite economist over at Cafe Hayek). Professional politicians and some big-industry types love open borders (see for example this UK article). For libertarians the argument revolves around “freedom”–but only the freedoms of certain people. […]
Most professional politicians love to say they are for helping the poor, yet so many of their programs create more poor people. Why do you think that is? I do NOT think the proven ignorance of professional politicians is the cause of their damaging programs. Rather it is clear that the root cause of those […]
I just discovered this Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=313217598722222 It tells ten things you cannot succeed at by doing things that affect an opposite. For example: #7 “You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.” Read the whole list…. Now some people will disagree with virtually everything on the list. My question is this: How […]
I read this article today by Steven Pearlstein in the Washington Post. And I wanted to throw up. This kind of ignorant drivel makes it very difficult for me to pursue my mission of helping people create more wealth for society. Don’t devote more than a minute skimming Pearlstien’s article. His supposed analysis of capitalism […]
Certain political ads claim that Bain Capital, Mitt Romney’s former company, is a bane on society. Supposedly Bain Capital destroys the wealth of certain people in order to increase the wealth of other people. Supposedly the benefactors are people who are already rich, and the losers are working-class poor people. It does this by buying […]
Facebook uses the same revenue model as Google: Advertising to viewers of their sponsored pages. And both companies have large numbers of users looking at their web pages. So advertisers and investors should take comfort that there is an enormous earnings future for Facebook. But the Facebook IPO is faltering. One has to ask, Why? […]
In a previous post I gave two fundamental principles. Maybe I could have called them Basic Facts, because they are not “principles” in the sense of being doctrines or beliefs. But the word “fact” seems too final, and while I believe these principles to be true, I want to leave some room for modification in case someone […]