March 24, 2018. The shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, and the subsequent March for Our Lives underline the need for sanity in improving the use of guns in the U. S. Opponents of gun regulation will undercut discussion of this hot topic using a blanket reference to the Second Amendment and three well-known slogans. These talking points appear to be self-evident, but careful examination shows they don’t stand up. If properly understood, this time they should not prevent well thought out reforms.Continue Reading
Guns
Introducing TEMPO and HUP
The more people help others, the more people help others. This declaration can be summarized by the near acronym TEMPO. Why is it necessary to insist on what seems so clear? Because our country has been divided by many long-simmering issues that boil down to this: How much help does one person owe another? Continue Reading
Business Friendly, Friendly Business?
Politicians tell us we need a government that is “business friendly.” But there are Fortune 500 companies, publicly traded corporations, family businesses and farms, mom and pop stores, and sole proprietors. There are so many types of business, it’s hard to have one policy that’s friendly to them all.Continue Reading
Witchcraft
What is so annoying about political rhetoric today is the smearing. In a smear, you characterize your target as something generally considered far worse. Both parties do it, but what really got me going was Senator Mitch McConnell’s attack on the pending reform of financial institutions as a bailout. The bill calls for a resolution fund financed by the banks themselves, not a bailout.Continue Reading