Let’s Talk Trash!
Let’s get down and dirty. Now don’t get excited. This column is not the least bit off-color or X-rated. I’m talking about your garbage.
Do you recycle? Do you meticulously separate your cans, bottles and plastic containers from the paper and cardboard?
The world is going green, but when it comes to our garbage, what we have been conditioned to do or feel compelled to do or – worse still – are coerced to do may end up hurting, not helping, the environment. Read the rest of this entry »
Feminist groups send Message to Tim Tebow
Radical feminist groups have been burning up the airwaves and chewing up newsprint in an effort to persuade CBS to reconsider its decision to air a 30-second spot during the Super Bowl featuring football star Tim Tebow and his mother, Pam, called “Celebrate Family, Celebrate Life.”
Although no one outside of Focus on the Family, which produced the spot, and CBS has seen the ad, it likely will highlight the story of this Heisman Trophy winner’s amazing birth.
By now, most true-blue football fans are somewhat familiar with Tebow, who is as famous for his faith in Christ as he is for his gridiron ability. After Super Bowl Sunday, even the casual fan will know why Tim’s mother is one of his heroes. Read the rest of this entry »
The real State of the Union
The national debt, now stands at $12,300,000,000,000 and change, and it’s growing by the second. That’s about $40,000 for every American. More important, it represents $113,000 for each and every taxpayer.
The federal deficit in 2009, the amount we added to the nation’s credit card, was a record $1.4 trillion, which was our largest, as a share of our Gross Domestic Product, since the end of World War II. Read the rest of this entry »
The Truth about Haiti
The devastating 7.0 earthquake that struck Haiti on January 13, has produced nonstop coverage of this tiny impoverished nation. However, many of the pundits who have been presented to the public as experts on the poorest country in our hemisphere have shown their ignorance.
Since 1990, Haiti has received more than $6 billion dollars in aide, $3 billion from the U.S. alone. Add to that another $1 ½ billion it has borrowed from international sources (the debt has now been forgiven). Some said that is tantamount to pouring money down a rat hole.
How is it that this poor country that is within spiting distance from our shores is still unable to help itself?
Is Haiti a lost cause? Hardly. Read the rest of this entry »
The Great Green Jobs Flimflam
Some people learn from their mistakes. It appears Barack Obama is not one of them.
Immediately, after assuming the office of president of the United States, Obama began clamoring for an unprecedented $787 billion dollar stimulus package. It was necessary, he told us, in order to put Americans back to work and arrest the rising rate of unemployment at eight percent.
A year later, the unemployment rate is hovering around 10 percent, but when you add to the list the number of discouraged workers or those working only part time, the rate is a staggering 17.3 percent.
What went wrong?
