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Easing Into Pension Reform

There’s been a lot of talk about excessive public pensions recently. A lot of it has been smoke and mirrors, with outrage about 50-year-olds retiring with 100% pay. I think it’s pretty obvious, if you...

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Four years later

Did anybody really need an NFL game to be postponed for snow to know that somebody had misplaced this country’s collective backbone? I’d like to think we all learned that at least four years ago...

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Hyperinflation and You

As somebody who listens to talk radio and watches news networks on a regular basis, I see a lot of ads from folks like Monex or Goldline. The basic premise is supported by the echo-machine narratives...

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Four More Years

Due to the 22nd Amendment to the United States Constitution, we didn’t get a chance to re-elect George W. Bush and carry on his proud stewardship of our nation. Happily, we were able to replace him...

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Another reason we could make it

Not a sufficient or even sensible reason for California to just break off from the United States entirely, but something I realized last night: California has more teams in the NHL playoffs than...

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Blurring the Lines with Human Shields

Recently there has been a lot of talk about civilian casualties in the Libyan civil war. Terms like “indiscriminate shelling” are thrown about, painting Muammar Gadhafi’s troops as abject villains. I...

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Why the Debt Ceiling doesn't matter

There’s been a lot of hubbub lately about the threat of the United States government defaulting on its loans and other financial commitments because congress hasn’t raised the cap on the maximum amount...

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Bickering about tax fairness is dumb

Listening to the radio earlier today, somebody was ridiculing Mitt Romney for claiming in a Univision interview that he had given back nearly 50% back to the community, and that his last two years of...

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Pondering Measure Q

If there’s one item on my November ballot that has rustled my jimmies, it has to be Santa Rosa’s Measure Q. Q proposes to take the seven-member city council, traditionally elected as at-large...

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The Responsibilities of the Powerful

In light of all the talk about violence involving police officers recently, let’s fire up the way-back machine and look at what Ramon Llull had to say back in the 13th century about the people who...

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