By now you have heard about Joe the Plumber. Joe met Barack Obama on a campaign stop in Joe’s neighborhood and asked Obama a question.
Joe said that he works as a plumber. He wants to buy the business he works for and buy some more equipment, so he can employ some more people. [...]
Okay, so a few of you just can’t seem to admit are not convinced that Fannie Mae had anything to do with the mortgage crisis. Here’s another attempt at making the point that the government created this financial crisis, not the free market.
Here’s how Fannie Mae is tied to the home mortgage crisis.
From The [...]
Sorry that this week’s post is a day late, but at least it’s not a dollar short.
I have been dealing with some pretty heavy personal stuff, which, thankfully, is now over, so it is a little shorter than I would like. I am hoping, though, that this post will lead to some good discussion [...]
It is no secret that I am not a proponent of massive government regulations in the name of so-called consumer safety.
For one thing, such regulations are often too cumbersome for small businesses to comply with, limiting consumer choice to large corporations with the resources to comply with the excessive regulation.
For another, I believe that the [...]
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Who would consent to the police performing a voluntary search of their home?
I mentioned last week that homeschoolers in Vermont have been wrestling with the State Department of Education’s new interpretation of the recently revised Home Study statute.
I have been trying to think of a way to make this a story that is relevant to someone other than the small sub-set of Vermont homeschoolers who insist on [...]
My regular readers know that I tend to lean pretty heavily libertarian and that my views on government typically reside in the philosophical realm, rather than reflect the reality of our current political system.
I am not sure if I have always been that way on this blog, but I am not about to go dig [...]
Someone left a comment on on my post “The Future of Small Government Voters (part 2),” with a link to a post about the beef recall. The recall was due to the plant violating federal regulations by forcing downed cows to slaughter. The violations and abusive treatment of the animals were discovered [...]
I was getting ready to lay out my doom and gloom analysis of the state of our union, when my husband, aghast that I sounded so negative, said I was starting to sound like Pat Buchanan.
He was referring to Mr. Buchanan’s column on Town Hall from Tuesday, Subprime Nation, or really any column, for that [...]
Er..make that 3.7 million dollars, I guess.
Two of my favorite Vermont bloggers share their perspectives on the primary enforcement seatbelt law being considered (i.e. they get to pull you over just for not having a seatbelt on).
Jeff Soyer weighs in at Alphecca.As does Geoffrey Norman at Vermont Tiger.
Take a look.
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