My 8-year-old and I are reading The Silver Chair , one of the books in C.S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia series. She doesn’t need me to read with her anymore, but even though she does the vast bulk of her reading without me now, we’ve been in the…
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With few exceptions (pretty much one exception, in fact) I don’t typically urge people to support political candidates. For those interested in politics, I am making another exception: Karen Kwiatkowski, who is running for U.S. Congress in Virginia’s 6th District. If you don’t already know Karen, she is not…
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The resources in the following comment, posted on this here blog (on this post ), will help: Your question regarding whether insurance “covering everything under the sun” is a product of the market or mandates is a good one. There have been studies on the impact of…
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Surprise .

This and other fun questions Peter asks of some OWS protesters. Scroll down for the video. (Thanks to my wife.) Interesting to observe the comments at Hot Air. They love Schiff, and many of them don’t seem to have heard of him before. A few stealth…
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A friend recently forwarded me a note from someone demanding to know how the noninterventionist Ron Paul would have handled the Cuban missile crisis.  I replied: “The interesting thing about this particular criticism is that the Cuban Missile Crisis was in fact ended by the…
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At 9:00pm ET at this link .

A critic writes: Our entire system is based is based on profits and losses driving decision making and economic activity, but our accounting does not always capture all the costs. If I open a new factory near a river for 5 million dollars and I make…
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You may recognize some familiar themes here, but I didn’t plan out my speech to the Libertarians of Northeast Kansas.  I think it came out all right.

Ron Paul discusses foreign policy, the budget, Herman Cain, Rick Perry, and Mitt Romney on the Mike Church Show.