Thoughts on St. Patrick’s Day
…time the first major non-Protestant ethnic group to come to our shores voluntarily. St. Patrick was not Irish, but ‘British’ [which really means Latin speaking Welsh, at a time that…
…time the first major non-Protestant ethnic group to come to our shores voluntarily. St. Patrick was not Irish, but ‘British’ [which really means Latin speaking Welsh, at a time that…
…a more vibrant entrepreneurial economy, and on some fronts still does. [The maker of computer chips is probably itching to move to Texas; less so the programmer.] The reason for…
…the schools to prove their innocence of being ‘segregation academies’. While some of these schools had gotten their start that way, in may ways the evangelicals were now repenting of…
From Derek Sivers, one of the best descriptions of Los Angeles life I’ve ever read, and a lot of it applies to Orange County, even though the OC is not…
…the Lord” and prepare them for life. Business is supposed to produce a quality product or service and make money in the process. Government is not supposed to do these…
…the spaces within be filled with lower density. The New Urbanist life style will not replace the old suburban life style; it will grow up alongside it for those who…
…mostly studied by people in midlife, not young people, as young people will primarily see education as economic empowerment, as they mostly have for the last 40 years [the real…
…income tax, many of these pay the highly regressive payroll tax, and, as was pointed out, if they are not, they are likely as not receiving the proceeds of the…
…is opposition to efficient transit systems and even . . . to quality-of-life parks systems. Several conservatives, such as Weyrich in “Moving Minds” and the American Chamber of Commerce more…
…life quickly, and was called Stadtbahn in German. Scheib writes, Stadtbahn ran at street grad but was isolated from other traffic; had multiple cars, each with one or two double-width…