I used to be a big fan of the Christian Children’s Fund. Donors can sponsor a child in a third world country, and for under a dollar a day can make sure the child has food, health care, and basic education. Its a great cause, and a very efficient charity - almost all [...]

Given that I’m often busy on Mondays, this may be my last post before election day. In that spirit, I thought I would look at each of the candidates and discuss what my greatest hopes and fears would be if that candidate were elected into office.
If Obama is elected:

Future presidential candidates, take note. Don’t do the following things:

Barack Obama has bought a half-hour of airtime on a handful of networks this evening, in order to make his final case for why we ought to vote for him. My hope for tonight is that Obama doesn’t even mention the names of either John McCain or President Bush. Instead, I hope that [...]

This election just keeps getting more bizarre by the minute.
Last night, I heard Hugh Hewitt, a prominent conservative talk radio host, go on CNN and chastise the liberal mainstream media for ignoring a story coming out of Pittsburgh about a McCain volunteer being attacked by an Obama supporter who carved a “B” into her cheek. [...]

Basically all government action redistributes wealth, to one degree or another. Imagine a society in which there is a one-dollar “head tax” (that is, every person pays exactly one dollar), and all it pays for is a fire department. As soon as that fire department saves a house, then that society has effectively [...]

The Supreme Court just decided to take on an extremely interesting, and difficult, case. Back in 2004, Congress passed the Identity Theft Penalty Enhancement Act that mandated a two year prison sentence for anyone who “knowingly transfers, possesses, or uses, without lawful authority, a means of identification of another person” (called “aggravated identity theft”). [...]

OK, the McCain camp either needs to find a new narrative, or they need to drop this whole Bill Ayers thing. McCain is still using the line “we need to know the full extent of the relationship”. The problem is that there have been multiple news organizations who have looked into the relationship, [...]

My wife and I were flipping through the news shows this evening, just checking out the coverage of the Powell endorsement when we ran across Pat Buchanan on Hardball telling the audience that Powell had betrayed the Republican Party. After all, it was a Republican president that appointed him to the Joint Chiefs and [...]

It has become fashionable among news networks to fact check candidate statements periodically, especially the claims made during the debates. In theory, this is great: candidates make an awful lot of misleading and down-right false statements during the course of the campaign and it’s nice to have someone standing there and saying “that’s just [...]