Government
About two years ago I took a graduate-level class – jammed into four days – on business operations. Drilled into our minds were the critical success factors for any business – service, quality and cost. Since a co-worker is taking the same class this week, and a post I recently read on SigForum by author…
The House Republican leader – John Boehner from Ohio’s Eighth if you did not know – announced that tomorrow’s budget debate would be live-blogged during the session so people can be kept up-to-date. Maybe they will try the application that I want to use for my first session, coveritlive.com? Maybe I’ll take the day off…
This is what happens when congressional representatives show-boat about how Bush is not delivering what the troops need in battle. They have no idea what they are talking about, but they push and push. We have to do something! Guess there were no user acceptance testing involved. Marines Call New Body Armor Heavy, Impractical Wednesday,…
Unbelievable. Carla Marinucci, one of the San Francisco Chronicle’s political writers, just spit out 1,235 words about where Janet Huckabee stayed during a weekend visit to Las Vegas. Huckabee went to watch a middleweight prize fight featuring Arkansas native – and long time friend – Jermain Taylor. Since she is conservative and a Christian, Marinucci…
Walter Williams posted a great article that fits well with our blog’s theme, a primer for the conservative basics. He takes a close look at what something costs versus the benefits gained. A couple of examples are listed. Let’s apply cost versus benefits to anti-terrorism expenditures. Wyoming has two major cities: Cheyenne, its capital, with…
No matter how often supporters of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA) – a.k.a McCain-Feingold – tell us that they got the money out of politics, every day more cash is being thrown around by national politicians. During the 2000 election cycle, campaign finance reform was the issue. Soft money had to be removed from…