By Robert Ringer - Monday, February 22, 2010By Robert Ringer There is much speculation that if the Republicans meet with BHO and his comrades to discuss health care, they will be walking into a trap. They are concerned that if they don’t go along with his idea to force socialized medicine on Americans that the Dems will pound [...]
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By Robert Ringer - Thursday, February 18, 2010By Robert Ringer I recently read a fascinating book about chaos theory — Chaos, by James Gleick. Oversimplified, chaos theory is about the underlying chaos that exists in seemingly orderly systems. The so-called butterfly effect comes into play here, because a small change in initial conditions can dramatically change the long-term [...]
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By Robert Ringer - Saturday, February 13, 2010By Robert Ringer Even though Social Security and Medicare guarantee to bankrupt America, we should not lose sight of the fact that there are scores of other government programs that are both immoral and costly — and that need to be abolished. Take unemployment benefits, for example. If Obama and progressives [...]
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By Robert Ringer - Monday, February 8, 2010By Robert Ringer As the U.S. edges ever closer to coming face to face with the consequences of its $100+ trillion of debt and “unfunded liabilities,” the cries from the never-give-up-the-fight progressives over “unfettered” capitalism are becoming increasingly louder. The coalition of communists, Marxists, socialists, progressives (a.k.a. “liberals”) — along with [...]
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By Robert Ringer - Tuesday, February 2, 2010By Robert Ringer In this, the final installment of “Saul, Barack, and Me,” I’d like to discuss Saul Alinsky’s views on self-interest, which he summed up in Rules for Radicals as follows: Self-interest, like power, wears the black shroud of negativism and suspicion. To many the synonym for self-interest is selfishness. [...]
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