Category: From the Editor
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Free Stuff Enslaves
By Evelyn Pyburn A few months ago, I encountered a news story about a recent court decision that was at once heartening and disheartening. A federal judge ruled that children do not have a fundamental right to learn to read and write. A surprising ruling, given the state of our judicial system, but a wonderful…
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Can’t Fix What’s Not Seen
By Evelyn Pyburn One of the greatest travesties of political correctness is the degree to which it cripples productive efforts in addressing serious problems. It stands in the way of truly and honestly dealing with the very real problems afflicting various minorities, or in dealing with some medical, religious or cultural conflicts, as well as…
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Everyone’s Problem, Everyone’s Solution
After work, tonight, take a walk – around your neighborhood or through a nearby park. It’s a simple way to claim your neighborhood and discourage mischief, vagrancy, and crime. Unused neighborhoods can easily become targets for mischief makers. Vacated or empty areas that become overrun by criminals or vagrants can be reclaimed by citizens simply…
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Doing Just Fine
by Evelyn Pyburn Someone must come to the defense of business following what is but a veiled attack upon decades of how business has been successfully conducted. It was recently reported that Business Roundtable, a lobbying group composed of people like Apple’s Tim Cook and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, is changing the definition of the “purpose of…
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Catastrophes that Didn’t Happen and Have Been Forgotten
Modern doomsayers have been predicting climate and environmental disaster since the 1960s. They continue to do so today. None of the apocalyptic predictions with due dates as of today have come true – but that is never reported, complains the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Failed predictions are never reported upon by a media that enthusiastically reports…
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What Is It All About?
“If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, growing double dahlias in his garden, or looking for dinasour eggs in the Gobi desert. He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that has rolled under the radiator. He will not…
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How to Cut Taxes
By Evelyn Pyburn If in no other way, the significance of the impact of drug abuse and the illegal trafficking of drugs, as well as related crimes, in Yellowstone County can be made clear by an evaluation of the budget for Yellowstone County. It would not be a stretch to conclude that as much as…
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Social Entreprenuers
By Evelyn Pyburn Have you noticed how as soon as the true meaning catches up with some terms or words, the wording gets changed? There are dozens of words that were perfectly good terms at one point in time, and not only do they get changed but sometimes it becomes anathema to continue to use…