Can A Nation Built By Giants Survive Nanny State Paternalism? The Numbers Don’t Look Good…

By: imperfectamerica (Diary)  |  April 1st at 09:17 AM  | 

While US Constitution and free market capitalism set the the foundations for American prosperity, it took a rugged, passionate, free people to build it. From George Washington to George Washington Carver to millions of other Americans, the United States was carved out a continent of forests that seemed to go on forever, fertile plains, vast mountain ranges and scorching hot deserts.  Over time American frontiersmen | Read More »

Obamacare – What good is health insurance if you lose the freedom to live your life as you choose?

By: imperfectamerica (Diary)  |  March 25th at 08:55 AM  | 

One of the many reasons conservatives dislike government overreach is because government is so often wrong about so much. And what’s worse, regardless of the magnitude of the government’s failures, citizens are stuck with the consequences of those policies, in most cases forever. This is not a new phenomenon. This has been going on for decades. Upon its establishment in 1965 the House Ways and | Read More »

Life imitates art… Liberals see the world as they imagine it is, not how it actually is

By: imperfectamerica (Diary)  |  January 21st at 09:13 AM  | 

I’ve always been a fan of Van Gogh’s paintings. I similarly like Renoir  and Seurat. Although I like some of Picasso’s early work, most of it I find a bit odd. My favorite artist however is William Adolphe Bouguereau, a 19th century French artist whose works are the polar opposite of the impressionists, literally. From the 1870′s his realistic portrayal of the human form was increasingly | Read More »

Newtown, gun regulations, sexy employees and the folly of “doing something”

By: imperfectamerica (Diary)  |  January 2nd at 09:07 AM  | 

Two very different news stories stood out for me recently. The first was the story of the killing of 26 innocent women and children at the school in Connecticut. The other was a story out of Iowa where a panel of judges said that a dentist could fire his assistant for being too attractive. At first blush the two stories couldn’t be more different. On | Read More »

President Obama’s deleterious effect on America’s work ethic.

By: imperfectamerica (Diary)  |  December 10th at 08:56 AM  | 

The United States was built on the backs of hard working people. From pilgrims who survived an ocean’s journey and founded a colony at Plymouth to slaves who endured the blistering sun as they harvested cotton to settlers who braved temperatures, terrain and Indians to fulfill a Manifest Destiny, the United States was the product of people who worked like their lives depended on it. | Read More »

Mitt Romney as Alexander the Great!

By: imperfectamerica (Diary)  |  October 29th at 08:47 AM  | 

Sadly, this summer Andy Griffith died. Growing up in the 1970’s, watching the Andy Griffith show was simply part of our day. Between episodes of Howdy Doody, The Brady Bunch and Gilligan’s Island, the Andy Griffith Show was just another show where life lessons played out on TV. Together these shows were “Americana” incarnate, where stories about honesty, hard work and community were on display | Read More »

ObamaCare and the children’s lemonade stand next door…

By: imperfectamerica (Diary)  |  April 2nd at 08:02 AM  | 

This past week the Supreme Court heard arguments for and against ObamaCare. The decision, expected to be handed down in June may very well be the single most important case in the history of the United States. Justice Anthony Kennedy, the perennial swing vote on the court pinpointed the argument on Tuesday: Here the government is saying that the federal government has a duty to | Read More »

10 for 12 – How the GOP can win the Presidency and bring back liberty and prosperity

By: imperfectamerica (Diary)  |  October 10th at 07:15 AM  | 

One of the challenges in politics is going from the general to the specific. Practically every American wants the things most politicians promise they’ll deliver: more jobs, economic growth, good schools, less poverty, freedom, a coherent foreign policy, etc. The more opaque a politician gets the better voters seem to like it. The poster child for this was of course Barack Obama in 2008. What | Read More »

What is America? A country, an idea or both?

By: imperfectamerica (Diary)  |  November 22nd at 09:22 AM  | 

I heard someone remark this week that Barack Obama did not share the values of the United States because he didn’t grow up here. While initially that sounded plausible, the more I thought about it, the more I disagreed with it. The truth of the matter is that growing up in the United States is no guarantee of sharing values with America. A few examples | Read More »