If you’d predicted six months ago that I’d be spending vast amounts of my time on this subject, I’d have said you were crazy. But you’d have been right. For me, that word has, in under three months, gone from never-before-encountered to encountered dozens to hundreds of times a day. Doctors and nurses, of course, […]
Author Archive | Calvin Beisner
9 Most Terrifying Words in the English Language
Why Did Ronald Reagan Call “I’m from the Government, and I’m Here to Help” the Nine Most Terrifying Words in the English Language? “The whole aim of practical politics,” wrote H.L. Mencken, “is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, […]
What Do “Green Jobs” Produce?
Cornwall Alliance advisory board member H. Sterling Burnett published a good piece in the Washington Times recently that rebuts claims about “Green jobs” in two ways. Burnett points out that in response to President Donald Trump’s saying one reason to withdraw from the Paris climate accord was that staying in would drive energy prices higher, causing the loss […]
Is It a Wonderful Life?
Chances are you’ve seen the classic movie It’s a Wonderful Life, starring Jimmy Stewart as George Bailey. Bailey has spent decades helping the people of Bedford Falls through the small bank his father founded, struggling to prevent stingy and corrupt Henry Potter from taking over the town. In one scene, George excoriates Potter for thinking […]