The shift occurred quietly (well, relatively quietly) and without a lot of fanfare. I used to read the newspaper regularly, faithfully, on almost a daily basis, for many, many years. And then one day I found that I wasn’t doing that anymore, and I didn’t need to subscribe to any papers, and I was just …
No Tar, No Feathers, No Nothing
Suppose I had a very strange experience with some of my neighbors on two successive evenings. The first night a group of my neighbors showed up at my door with a bucket of tar and a bag of feathers, and they wanted me to join them as they headed down the block to find Murphy …
No “Trick My Truck” Campaign Bus
I have been pretty busy since the tea parties of last week, and haven’t had a chance to comment on them. And as my comments have been slow-cooking in this crock pot brain of mine, a few extra carrots have gotten thrown in. First some observations and then some editorializing. So I went to see …
The Bear Went Over the Mountain
Okay, so today is tax day, and it is time for a little pep talk. Our government is going what governments do best, which is being greedy, grasping, voracious, irresponsible, idiotic, and shrewd. The people on the receiving end of this are doing what they do best, which is complain about it without doing anything …
Not Going to Run Out
Now I have outlined in a previous post the fact that incentives are inescapable. It is not whether finite creatures will have them, but which incentives they will have. They will respond to various incentives according to their nature, according to the moral condition of their heart and head. You cannot lure a hungry horse …
Seventy Two of Them
You get more of what you subsidize, and you get less of what you penalize. This is not just a good idea, it’s the law. Different worldviews do not differ over this law — they differ over what is valued and which we therefore want “more of,” and over what may be justly reckoned as …
This Era of Obummer
I have mentioned more than once that Christians need to get up to speed on certain economic principles in this era of Obummer. If we do not, then we will discover, as we have been discovering, that he can commit ten economic fallacies at trillion dollar levels while we are all standing around his first …
Fireproof
Last night Nancy and I watched Fireproof and I wanted to tell you what I thought of it. I figured I needed to give it a look because it is a big evangelical thing and some folks in my congregation had asked me about it. I did not have high expectations going into it for …
Taking Age for Grace
“Besides, I have observed, that old men have blessed themselves with this mistake; namely, taking the decays of nature for a gracious conquest over corruptions, and so have been apt to beguile themselves” (John Bunyan, Pilgrim’s Progress).
Black Markets
He who names, wins. And one of the things that statists, tyrants and bullies like to do, when their regulations have shut virtually every productive thing down, is call the small remaining enclaves of free transactions “black markets.” Black markets, aye. And of course, there is a certain kind of Christian who, when Congress (in …