There is an excellent book called Rich Dad, Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money--That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not! I highly recommend it to people.  In many discussions on-line, it becomes really apparent that most people don't really understand money. They know what it does but they have no idea how it works, where it comes from, and how to make more of it. Conceptually, it's straight forward: If I have $1 and my goal is to have more than $1 then I need to...

  So my tax bill for April is starting to come together and it's looking pretty bad. I've been paying estimated taxes all year but we had a particularly good year this year and since many of our projects run under S-corporations, their profits get tied to my personal return (like most small business owners). Our company has around 70 people in it. We'd have more but we literally can't fit anyone else in the building.  We're in the process of building out other parts...

I'm not personally into guns but I am a strong believer in the right for citizens to legally purchase pretty much any type of precision target weapon (i.e. guns). One of the strawman arguments I hear often is "Why not let people have nukes then?" and the reason is that the constitution intended citizens to bear arms -- specifically weapons that have a relatively high degree of precision.  Explosives, canons, etc. are not precision weapons. Now before someone gets hung up on the above ...

Newsweek has seen its readership drop dramatically over the past few years.  This doesn't surprise me as I used to be a subscriber to Newsweek but it increasingly drifted further and further left to the point where it wasn't just biased but started to feel like reading propaganda. I had been a subscriber for 10 years at the time. Here's an article discussing it. http://www.foliomag.com/2008/newsweek-mulls-dramatic-drop-circulation

For most people, discussing politics is like discussing football. Sure, it's interesting but it has very little actual affect on their lives at first glance. But in reality, people rarely recognize the unintended consequences of their beliefs. For instance, nearly every conversation with a tax hike supporter inevitably goes something like this: Me : I'm against raising the taxes on anyone, including the top 5%. Tax Supporter : Why? You can afford to pay more in taxes. You'v...

I've seen the argument that we should have the federal government raise taxes back to where they were in the Clinton years.  Such an argument ignores the bigger picture because when the federal government lowered taxes, a lot of states, including Michigan where I live, raised theirs. Let's look at Mr. Rich guy who makes $1M a year (after deductions) and owns a $1M home and lives in Michigan. About $300,000 of his income will go to federal income taxes. Another $40,000 will go...

Auto Bailouts Will Give Us Detroitsky A Chapter For Detroit To Open Wouldn't it be great to live in a world where everything was free? You sure? Plants are people too..? Detroit: Same Old, Same Old

Great article by Walter E. Williams that helps explain why socialism is a fundamentally evil concept. I'd go even further and say it's also insipid because its supporters actually believe that supporting socialism actually makes them morally superior. Imagine there's an elderly widow down the street from you. She has neither the strength to mow her lawn nor enough money to hire someone to do it. Here's my question to you that I'm almost afraid for the answer: Would you support a go...

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Great article outlining the different views of left and right wing Americans.   http://townhall.com/columnists/DennisPrager/2008/10/14/there_are_two_irreconcilable_americas

Good article at the WSJ discussing the likely results of the upcoming election. - Medicare for all . When HillaryCare cratered in 1994, the Democrats concluded they had overreached, so they carved up the old agenda into smaller incremental steps, such as Schip for children. A strongly Democratic Congress is now likely to lay the final flagstones on the path to government-run health insurance from cradle to grave. Mr. Obama wants to build a public insurance program, modeled after...

Watching Obama absolutely crush McCain in the third debate. It's just so painful.  Republicans decided to have a "moderate" old maverick. They got their wish.

I really can't wait until this election comes and GOES. I'm a conservative and I make no bones about it. I keep up on politics and foreign affairs as a hobby all the time. But every 4 years, suddenly lay people who barely pay attention suddenly become political experts ready to insult the intelligence of those who disagree with them. It's particularly annoying reading Digg, a site I usually like but is populated by left-wingers who, if asked, say that Digg is dominated by left-wingers...

Gotta check these out. http://www.airbedandbreakfast.com/capnmccains http://www.airbedandbreakfast.com/obamaos

Very good article at the Washington Post today by Andrew Klavan Myth # 1. Hollywood has no political agenda -- it's just out to make money . Would that it were so. All through 2007, Hollywood sent American multiplexes the message: "We don't like the war on terror." All year, American moviegoers sent a message back to Hollywood: "We don't care." "Lions for Lambs," "In the Valley of Elah," "Redacted," "Rendition" -- movie...