Tag archive for ‘Decisiveness’
Return of Pirates: It’s time to enforce our blue water powers…
While they are not flying the “Jolly Roger,” Somali pirates have been raiding ships along the Indian Ocean and the Gulf of Aden, stealing their cargo, ransoming crews, and attacking merchant shipping. Things have gotten so bad, merchant shipping in this region is almost grinding to a halt.Somali pirates struck again this week by seizing an Iranian cargo ship holding 30,000 tonnes of grain, as the world’s governments and navies pronounced themselves powerless against this new threat to global trade.
Encouraging the Freedom to Fail
American business is the most robust, the most efficient, and the most effective in providing returns to shareholders on invested capital. We take capital from all points on the globe and turn it into returns that are often multiples of what they initially invested. No other country is as effective at generating wealth as the United States. We are so effective because of our commitment to capitalism and free markets. Part and parcel of that commitment is a belief in freedom. One of those freedoms has to be the freedom to fail. For if failure is not a consequence of bad decision making by private enterprise, we will surely fail in the long term in generating wealth. Life without risk, in business, is not worth investing in.
There’s nothing “Fair” about the Fairness Doctrine
The first casualty of the new 111th Congress could be both free speech and the free market. After years of being dormant, many democrats in Congress are hinting that they will seek to re-institute the “Fairness Doctrine,” a doctrine that requires US broadcasters present in equal time on controversial issues. If enacted, the doctrine will undoubtedly be targeted almost exclusively at “conservative talk radio,” and the consequences will be millions of dollars in lost revenues for radio stations across the country, especially AM radio stations, an undoubtedly a blow for free speech in ensuring that the “marketplace of ideas” remains open.
Is that your FINAL answer? Congression debate to include Polygraph?
Two challengers for an Indiana congressional seat have agreed to be hooked up to lie detectors during an upcomming debate. While it is unlikely to happen - it demonstrates the sillyness that the 2008 campaign season seems to be turning into.
Ninth District Republican Party Chairman Larry Shickles on proposed the political polygraphs for Democratic Rep. [...]
McCain - Sex- Real Men - and “you fight like a girl”
Washington, D.C. (Rightcommentary.com) A disturbing trend is emerging I have noticed among both “conservative” and “liberal” women I know and talk to - both in the “real world” and in the “virtual world” of the blogosphere and the internet. The theme of the comments I hear is essentially this - where have all the “real [...]
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