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| From the weekly Senator Medler Blogoon by Randall Hylkema |
| The Final Episodes of Senator Medler |
posted 2/25/2013
posted 3/4/2013
| In addition to the four months of debate at the Constitutional Convention, ratification took nearly three years! Of course people actually read the Constitution before they voted on it! How quaint. If "efficiency" is measured in words per legislative hour, the Obamacare law wins easily. But in good ideas per hour, the Constitution wins in a landslide. |
| Re-run from August 22, 2011 |
| Re-run from December 12, 2011 |
| A widely held belief holds that corporations are short sighted and don't think beyond the next quarterly financial report. If that were really true, why would they invest billions in (A) Oil exploration; (B) Product R&D; (C) Multi-year brand building programs? If governments were really the adults looking out for our long term well being - and not just focused on the next election - they would: (A) Not spend billions on goodies for the electorate without at the same time coming up with the means to pay for these goodies. I'll stop with (A)...that's enough. |
| Re-run from February 7, 2011 |
| Every pedestrian bridge, walkway, or other small public project nowadays is affixed with a brass sign noting which public officials were in office when the project was funded. That's "funded" as in "my tax dollars". Is anyone besides me bothered by this? On the Federal level they don't mess around with dinky plaques: "John Murtha Airport"; "Nancy Pelosi Way"; "Harry Reid Center for Environmental Studies". (All real examples.) Most normal people would be embarrassed by such undeserved praise. Did someone place a sign above the entrance to the Capitol building saying: "Abandon Humility All Ye Who Enter Here". |
| Re-run from October 3 , 2011 |
| "People before profits" is one of those banalities that sounds pro- found...until you give it a second thought. Bromides about "special interests" or "Social Justice" should be inspected carefully before use. The master at puncturing these inflated speech balloons is economist Thomas Sowell. If you're not familiar with his work, try some Sowell searching: http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/304176/mysticism-soci al-justice-thomas-sowell www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/t/thomas_sowell.html www.newsmax.com/Insiders/ThomasSowell/id-144 |
| Re-run from February 13 , 2012 |
Posted 4/8/2013
| Clear thinking and careful use of words are inseparable, or so we used to say. The popular ratification debate over the U.S. Constitution displayed sophisticated political ideas and a nuanced vocabulary. That was a long time ago. But there is still hope! A recent poll asked about the importance of a strong vocabulary. The responses: "Words are awesome" (40%), "F***in' yes important" (40%), "I don't understand the question" (20%). So public opinion is on our side! |
| In the 1960s, Mao was lionized by the western Left. But after the human tragedy of the Great Leap Forward, the horrors of the Cultural Revolution, and the shock of Tiananmen, he lost his rock star status. Mao was always a visible hand kind of guy. What about the invisible hand? Think about it. Millions of people freely pursuing their own goals and interests end up organizing, coordinating and creating on a grand scale. We end up with real leaps forward, and real cultural revolutions! |
| Re-run from December 19, 2011 |
| Re-run from February 27, 2012 |
posted 4/22/2013
| The truth is, electric cars may be more polluting than internal combustion vehicles, depending on where the electricity comes from. Another example: ethanol may well have a larger carbon footprint than gasoline. Unless pollution is built into the pricing of the fuel, it's hard to figure out for sure. The Science of Green isn't so easy, and shouldn't be confused with the Religion of Green, which calls for piety, worship, ritual, and penitence, but not hard analysis. |
| Dr. Seuss also cleverly lampooned the very idea of totalitarian rule. For example, Yertle the Turtle, King of the Pond, was brought down by hubris and cruel treatment of his subjects. In Bartholomew and the Oobleck, it was shown that "Even a king can't rule the sky." Dr. Seuss is still the best! |
| Re-run from January 17, 2011 |