Category: From the Editor
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You are the Private Sector
By Evelyn Pyburn So, how dare a political candidate even mention the concept of privatization! When people started asking me about Republican candidate Tim Sheehy’s comments about privatizing health care, etc. as though it was an outrageous thing to say, my answer has been, “I only wish I thought he intended to do it.” More…
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The Strange and Mystical
By Evelyn Pyburn The price of something conveys a message. Looking at the price of a can of soup is a message. Deciphering that message might be complicated but attempting to arbitrarily change it will not change the facts it attempts to convey. If the price has increased it may be saying the cost of…
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Pondering Property Rights
By Evelyn Pyburn One really can’t look at the events of the world today without realizing that there are forces coming from every direction trying to destroy our country. As bit by bit government chips away at our lives, we must realize that the effort has actually been going on for a long time, but…
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Sweet Entrepreneurship
By Evelyn Pyburn The current news about growth in entrepreneurship and the dynamics of start-up companies should be seen as a very positive turn of events. It’s not that entrepreneurship is a new idea or phenomenon, it’s that a whole new group of people are seeing it and understanding it for the first time and…
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Housing Solution Quite Simple
By Evelyn Pyburn As we see, in our own fair cities, massive apartment buildings towering above the streets for blocks and blocks, looking more like prison walls than a place to live, we have to realize that life has changed for each and every citizen in the United States. And, it is a dilemma of…
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Constitution, not Judge, is Wrong
By Evelyn Pyburn I hate to say it but the court decision regarding the case of Held vs. Montana – kids suing the State of Montana for failing to provide them with a clean environment – was totally in keeping with Montana’s 1972 Constitution. And I suspect we have more similar decisions to come unless…
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“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your own man is hard business. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”
Rudyard Kipling Owning Yourself By Evelyn Pyburn Few quotations strike closer to home during the current era than this, especially as it pertains to speaking truth as we see it. I understand the reasons. In my youth I used to feel quite intimidated at having to speak in a public setting of any sort. I…
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Judge Strikes Down Emissions Rule
A federal judge in Kentucky struck down a Biden administration rule that required states to measure and report the greenhouse gas emissions from any vehicles traveling on the national highway system, according to a report in Epoch Times. “With this victory in court, we’re slamming the brakes on the Biden Administration’s politics that make no…
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Let’s all Get Along
By Evelyn Pyburn A plea for more fellowship in politics is nothing new. I have heard people calling for less “partisanship” for years and have understood part of it – or at least what I hope they mean – but there is another aspect I don’t think is wanted by some people. It is that,…
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Illegal Immigrants Want to Leave
By Evelyn Pyburn So reports are that migrants who have come to the US illegally are disappointed and want to return home. They are saying “the American dream is dead.” As one Venezuelan illegal was quoted, “The American Dream doesn’t exist anymore. There’s nothing here for us… We just want to be home. If we’re…