Whitewater is a small town, with a population only over fourteen thousand. Not far around us, though, are larger cities, and corporations, with intricate hierarchies. We have joined the modern and modernizing trend toward greater specialization, in committees, titles, and departments. Our culture has not kept pace with our specialization – BAU (business as usual)…

Quick updates on the Bob Barr campaign. (Barr is a former Republican congressman who received the Libertarian Party nomination for president.) Barr’s campaign website shows that he has raised only about a half million dollars so far – a paltry sum. Meanwhile, the GOP is finding that when it asks for online suggestions, its most…

Here’s a question for today: What will be different about the Planning Commission meeting tonight? The answer this evening…

Yesterday, I posted about Cost of Government Day – the day when an average American has worked long enough to pay his share of federal, state, and local government spending and regulations. It takes more than half a year. This astonishing burden is worth remembering the next time a public official calls for a partnership…

Reason magazine yesterday had a post observing July 16th as Cost of Government Day. It’s that day of the year when the average American has worked during enough of the year so that his cumulative gross income will pay his share of the cost of federal, state, and local spending and regulations. The American Taxpayers…

Most people can tell the difference between a wild rat and a white laboratory rat, but apparently not every alleged con artist sees the importance of the difference. The Wisconsin State Journal reports that Debbie Miller, aged 41, of Appleton ….claimed to find the rat in her lunch April 17 as she ate at the…

I saw a tagline from an ACLU publication that says “Because Freedom Can’t Protect Itself.” True and clever. Defense of civil liberties is a worthy, and very American, tradition. That tradition is one of the many reasons to love America.

What did Burt Bacharach and Jackie DeShannon know in 1965 that Whitewater’s city manager, officials, politicians, so-called ‘people of influence,’ and press do not understand even now? The answer tonight.

Beginning in 1942, Capra directed a series on films for soldiers (and later civilians) called Why We Fight. It says much about the human condition that, even after Nazi Germany declared war on the United States, the government felt it necessary to fund films to explain the reasons for fighting the Axis. In our present…

Sometimes, people will ask why I have posts with videos (or today, music). Why not? America is awash in new media. Blogs are only one of the new media that have hit big in the last decade. For someone who prefers one compliant newspaper, three television networks, and a news magazine or two, this new…