Author: Paul

  • The Price of Black Gold

    Oil prices are on the rise. With unrest in the Middle East the price of crude oil continues to climb. Is this just a result of the turmoil or is there something else at work? Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour believes it is the goal of the Obama administration to allow gas prices to increase in…

  • Drunkenness

    drunkenness From Charlie Sheen to the local high school football team, drunkenness and substance abuse is making the news. Is drunkenness a symptom of a larger problem?

  • GAO Report on Redundant Spending

    The U.S. government has 15 different agencies overseeing food-safety laws, more than 20 separate programs to help the homeless and 80 programs for economic development. These are a few of the findings in a massive study of overlapping and duplicative programs that cost taxpayers billions of dollars each year, according to the Government Accountability Office.…

  • A Budget for Destruction

    destruction Today’s comment is about the looming budget battle. Congress continues to struggle over the new normal. The question for me as my eyes glaze over is this; Are we trying to destroy our country?

  • The New Site

    I am working on a new central repository for the various things I am doing. The idea is to have news and such, but also the other stuff I talk about. More to come later.