Fairness

By John Eberhard Liberals in America, and President Obama in particular, have made a lot of noise in recent years about “fairness,” or “social justice.” Obama’s message is that some people have too much money, and way back in 2008 on the campaign trail, he told Joe the Plumber that everyone benefits when we spread [...] Read more »

Back to Political Basics

By John Eberhard I recently spoke at a political forum in Glendale, CA. I decided, in light of the Occupy Wall Street protesters spouting Marxist complaints that were old 100 years ago, that it would be good to “get back to basics,” by which I mean taking a look at definitions of some of the [...] Read more »

Obama Won’t Be Changing Course

By John Eberhard Recently I saw an article on Newsmax.com about the fact that James Carville, a Democratic political strategist who worked for Clinton and who has written at least one book on politics, was advising President Obama to “panic.” Carville stated "We are far past sending out talking points. Do not attempt to dumb [...] Read more »

Recent Wisdom from Rush Limbaugh

I get a daily email from Rush Limbaugh with highlights from his show, and a friend sent me this excerpt from his show recently, about unions and why people who work on union jobs think the way they do. This is one of the brightest things I've seen about the whole union controversy recently, and [...] Read more »

Father and Daughter Talk

A friend sent me this: ————————————————– Father and daughter talk A young woman was about to finish her first year of college. Like so many others her age, she considered herself to be very liberal, and among other liberal ideals, was very much in favor of higher taxes to support more government programs, in other [...] Read more »

The Divide Between the Public Sector and the Private Sector

By John Eberhard The recent confrontation between the Wisconsin Governor and GOP, and the public employee unions has highlighted the huge divide between the public sector and the private sector. First let’s talk about the yawning gap between the average pay of public and private sector employees. USA Today reported in March 2010 that federal [...] Read more »

Obama After Elections: Wins “Most Out of Touch” Award

by John Eberhard By now it’s all over but the shouting, and the Republicans have taken a solid majority in the House of Representatives and made solid gains in the Senate. In the lead-up to the election, pundit after pundit, even liberal commentators, have said that the polls showed that the public was unhappy with [...] Read more »

The Election of November 2010 Part 2

by John Eberhard I know everyone is probably getting election fatigue already based on the volume of emails, direct mail and even robocalls. But bear with me with some last minute thoughts on next Tuesday’s election. Vote Republican Anyone who has followed my articles knows I am a conservative. I think it is more important [...] Read more »