I recently started reading Roger Kimball’s exceptional new book, “The Fortunes of Permanence” and am apparently in rather good company. The inestimable Jay Nordlinger relates in National Review Online that he, too, is enthralled by Kimball’s latest offering. The book touches on many important topics concerning culture, education, society and our intellectual inheritance, but centers […]
American small businesses aren’t growing, hiring, borrowing or expanding as they should be. Their owners have almost no confidence Washington can stop runaway federal spending or balance the government’s budget. Worried and uncertain over what the future might hold, these usually optimistic entrepreneurs grow more cautious by the day. Their fears and uncertainty when it […]
Seriously, we’re $16 TRILLION in debt and running up an extra $1.5 TRILLION in debt every year and this is something we need, underwear that detects cigarette smoke? As Dave Barry, one of my favorite columnists of all time, would say, “I am not making this up.” According to CNS News, the National Institute of […]
It’s an easy, and not entirely inaccurate, observation to make that an overly latitudinarian and morally relativistic society is at least partially to blame for the bomb attacks in Boston. It’s not entirely accurate, either. In the final analysis, it’s terrorists, and the strictures that motivate them, that are to blame for acts of terror. […]
With all due respect to the president’s jump-the-gun quote from a couple of years back, I’m not sure just what the answer is. And there are a couple of glaring examples in the news of cops acting: one national and one local. Obviously, the national story is the Boston Marathon bombing. There’s so much information […]
It’s risky business attempting to connect the myriad dots to catch a glimpse of what the economy looks like. It can be more risky still to predict with any certainty how actions today will affect the economy tomorrow. It’s worth the trouble, though, on the off chance a bigger picture just might emerge: By golly, […]
Much has been made of late over the issue of homosexual marriage, its embers stoked by the Colorado Legislature’s affirmation of civil unions and more recently by the U.S. Supreme Court’s tentative wading into the challenge to the Defense of Marriage Act. Proponents of marriage redefinition have taxonomized the issue as a civil right — […]
The good news is that business is terrific right now for the professionals paid to prepare tax returns. The bad news is that the tax code that ensures their success weighs down an essential sector of job creation: small business. Fully 91 percent of small business owners surveyed recently by the National Federation of Independent […]
I know I’ll hear it about this one, but that’s OK. Because when one is a fan of a team, it’s almost expected that one feels the officials are against them. And to be fair, it’s not the referees’ fault. After all, Louisville had that kid with the broken leg. I know what you’re going […]
Two disconcerting indicators continue to reflect the lag in economic recovery in Mesa County compared to other areas of Colorado. While the unemployment rate remains stubbornly high, sales tax collections trend downward. And if you surmise there’s a connection between the two, you’re likely right. The circumstances lead to a second point, and that’s the […]