How to Donate to Non-501(c)(3) Charities

Let’s say your marginal tax rate is 25 percent.  That means, out of the next dollar that you earn, you have to fork over a quarter to the federal government, and you get to keep the rest. (That’s one way to look at it.  A more accurate way to view things is that out of … Read more

We need more conversation not less.

Our Enemy Is the Ideology of the Totalitarian Left.

This is the time for freedom-loving people to coalesce around principles upon which we can all agree. This may be America’s only hope of survival. The ground isn’t going away any time soon but America’s first principles are. Just as we did in the Cold War era we need a broader coalition. We have a common foe.

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Stop Calling a Ransom a ‘Budget’

Here’s how a budget works.  You have some income to work with (a salary, for example, or a pension, or the interest from some investments), and you figure out how you’re going to live within that income.  This is true whether you’re talking about a household or a business.  With a budget, income limits expenditures. … Read more

Thinking about “first principles.” 

Is Today’s America What the Founders Had in Mind?

Today seems the right time to be thinking about “first principles.” A first principle is a basic assumption that cannot be deduced any further. First principle thinking is a fancy way of saying “think like a scientist.” Thomas Ricks has a book of the same name that addresses whether today’s America is what the Founders had in mind.

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Sherry Frost

Democrat NH State Rep Sherry Frost is a Short Memory’d Hypocrite

Did NH State Rep Sherry Frost forget a little detail? Like she was a sponsor of this bill last year? HOUSE BILL 1159-FN    AN ACT relative to cyberbullying, cyberstalking, and doxxing of a public servant. SPONSORS: Rep. Diggs, Graf. 16; Rep. J. Schmidt, Hills. 28; Rep. W. Thomas, Hills. 21; Rep. Frost, Straf. 16; Rep. Altschiller, … Read more

GOP Elephant

RINOs and “Moderate” Republicans

About 4 years ago, I mused in print about the term “moderate Republican” and what it might mean. And those musings were recently brought to mind again by an email from someone in my district who seemed to claim to be a “moderate Republican” and seemed to criticize me for calling out some as Republicans In Name Only (RINOs).

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