Well, it all started years ago with “Take Your Daughter to Work Day”. Now about 250 organizations in the United States and Canada are taking part in “Take Your Child Outside” week.It started in North Carolina last year, and quickly spread — because, say supporters, it will help to fight the maladies that affect our […]

When it comes to health care, it borders on the criminal what has happened in the health care, the artificial elevation in price versus value.There’s no way a Band-Aid costs $300 bucks in a hospital, that’s what it’s going to cost you because somebody else is paying the bill and there are a lot of […]

California residents are getting an early Christmas present, my friends! Democrats plan to eliminate the state’s 18-cent-per-gallon gasoline excise tax, as well as an 8-cent-per-gallon sales tax on gasoline. So it’s celebration time! Except that it’s not. You see, Democrats want to wipe out the taxes… but replace them with a 39-cent-per-gallon “highway user fee.” […]

You may have seen this. This week, a lot of your local newspapers ran an AP story about glaciers that deserves a second look — especially if you can read between the lines. The story begins with the assertion that “global warming is shrinking glaciers all over the world.” But then, the article describes a […]

I read a classic, Media, gloom-and-doom story from AP; it’s a collection of sob stories from around the country to justify their assertion that America is in a “bad mood.” The article’s message is that only by embracing “change” will we relieve our supposed “bad mood” — and, of course, Obama (if you have not […]