The Loudest Cricket

It’s not the responsibility of the government to pay for job training or job retraining.  Have we become so dependent on entitlements that we believe that Uncle Sam has to pay for everything?  If you want to change careers, you’re going to have to pay for your own retraining.  It will take time, most likely [...]

We disagreed with the high court’s determination that the enigmatic Second Amendment guarantees an individual right to gun ownership
If the Freep thinks that the second amendment is “enigmatic,” what does it think of the ObamaCare law?  Only in loony lefty land is gun-ownership not a right, but health-care is.

Not content with putting America in debt, Obama asks the rest of the G-20 to join in on the spending spree.  They’ve already spent themselves into massive deficits, Europe doesn’t need a cheerleader to help them spend.  They, like the US, need to figure out how to pay for rampant, reckless spending.  Unfortunately, the answer, [...]

I guess the four justices that voted against this ruling don’t understand the phrase “the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”  Or perhaps they do understand, but don’t care.  I’m sure the liberals judges believe that the first amendment applies to all levels of government even though it [...]

After their multiple endorsements of Kwame, I’m a little nervous about the Freep’s call for Bing to run the DPS.  And it’s funny how they don’t want the state to interfere with the city until things are completely out of control.  What they really want is more money from the state to sink into a [...]

Kwame is going to be dead and gone and some agency will charge him with yet another crime.  Now that the state and feds have had a chance, maybe Interpol can get a crack at him.

The same policies that bankrupted GM and Chrysler are having the same effect on states, counties, and cities across America.  The burden of union pensions and health care are killing services that governments should be providing.  Instead, states like Illinois are on the hook for hundreds of millions of dollars for retired school administrators.  States [...]

It’s ironic that the Freep blames enablers on the school board for the actions of its president.  The lefty media have been enabling unqualified candidates for decades, the Freep especially.  Kwame Kilpatrick, Monica Conyers, Barack Obama…

Facebook, Twitter, et al, are not ruining personal connections, they are just more tools used to develop a social network.  I’m sure people like Bergman complained about the same issues with the proliferation of the telephone.  Hell, some idiots probably complained about the telegraph.  But these technological advances improve personal connections, not ruin them.  And [...]

Financial regulation is almost an oxymoron.  Trying to controlling the flow of money by legislation is like trying to control the flow of the Mississippi River…by legislation.  But then, Obama and the Democrats think that by passing more laws and adding more regulations they can stop an oil leak.  Not gonna happen.
Average Americans — not [...]