TomInReston | February 8, 2009
This is NOT a deep thought.
No amount of incentives to businesses will create jobs.
Businesses will create jobs when and only when they need the workers to meet the demand for their products and services, regardless of what incentives are (or are not) in place.
TomInReston | February 7, 2009
i’m watching the travesty called the United State Senate, and right now I’d like to abolish it altogether and ship the whole crew — from whining Republicans to spineless Democrats to idiot staffers — to a desert island somewhere. Then they could bask in the company of one another and let the rest of us [...]
TomInReston | January 25, 2009
Every now and then, there is an op-ed worth reading.
Author Timothy Garton Ash, a fellow at St. Antony’s College, Oxford, and the Hoover Institution at Stanford, looks at the debasement of the word “liberal,” and while the word itself may have been marginalized, the concepts it once embodied are a part of the fabric of [...]
TomInReston | January 24, 2009
I guess there always will be some who have their own identities so tied up in an ideology they can’t let go.
Still, I don’t understand.
TomInReston | January 23, 2009
Dear Obama Administration:
If it hasn’t occurred to you yet, this is why you wait until your opponents have a chance to complain before you compromise.
Did you really think they’d accept your first offer? Jeesh.
I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.
