Prices rise. People blame capitalism. Politicians promise "solutions." President Donald Trump wants to cap credit card interest rates. My socialist mayor wants to freeze rents. Elizabeth Warren wants politicians to decide what prices are "excessive." So I was surprised to see ...
America has a spending problem. It also has a health care problem. These are not two separate crises but rather the same crisis wearing different clothes. The Cato Institute's new "Handbook on Affordability" is a great resource to understand the root problem and how to fix it. Start with a ...
On the surface, this bill may look like it’s about voter identification and preventing so called fraud, but it’s really about making voting harder for eligible citizens in the state of Michigan. If this bill becomes law, voters who have used their standard driver's license or state ID to register and/or to vote, especially married women who have changed their name, would be required to present an enhanced driver’s license or present other documents like a birth certificate or passport, documents that many do not have or will need to purchase, in order to register and/or vote. In ...
When President Donald Trump says he "may do" something, it also means he "may not" do something. He covers all his bases so no one can be surprised. Trump realizes that people will believe what they want to believe. Because of that fact, Trump gives messages that some people can embrace and ...
The Michigan State Police is once again taking part in a national initiative that encourages residents to properly dispose of expired, unused and unwanted prescription pills. All of MSP’s 31 posts will participate in National Prescription Drug Take Back Day from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday. This is one of two annual events held in partnership with the Drug Enforcement Administration and other police agencies, MSP advises in a news release. Nearly 650 pounds of pills were collected during the last Drug Take Back Day in October. “By taking a few minutes to clear out expired or unused ...
The late, great stand up artist George Carlin got it exactly right some years ago when he held forth on society's tendency to restructure verbal phraseology to make it easier on the ear, to render it less offensive, more comfortable. He famously offered several examples of this, including what happens to combat veterans after the fighting stops. In World War I, he said, the condition was called shell shock. Short, direct, it almost sounds like the guns themselves, he said. Since then, shell shock has evolved into something called post traumatic stress disorder. All of the pain, trauma, ...
