By: Michael M (Diary)  |  August 24th at 12:51 PM  | 

The Obama White House has dropped the ball again.  While the administration is probably attempting to pin the earthquake on George W. Bush — might I humbly suggest: “George W. Bush left me a weak tectonic situation and Republicans in Congress blocked my every attempt to fix it due to the pernicious influence of the Washington Monument Crack Repairers Lobby” — they’ve missed the bigger issue | Read More »

By: Michael M (Diary)  |  August 23rd at 11:38 PM  | 

A friend of mine is a child psychologist.   While hanging out tonight, she mentioned that quite often parents come in with children showing behavior problems and they don’t know what to do because they give the child everything he wants.  She went on to mention that she would recommend spanking, but these days it’s just too easy for the children to call DCFS and bust | Read More »

By: Michael M (Diary)  |  August 21st at 07:39 PM  | 

About a week ago, Warren Buffett started the latest round of soak the rich talk with an editorial entitled “Stop Coddling the Super Rich.”  There’s been a lot written to contradict Buffett (see here, here, and here), but not a lot on one particular passage: Back in the 1980s and 1990s, tax rates for the rich were far higher, and my percentage rate was in | Read More »