Feb 17th, 2009 by Alan Miller in Uncategorized
AT&T just sent my father an offer for two free cell phones, and he’s pre-approved to boot. This would come as news to my father, who died in New York 34 years ago. He never even knew what a cell phone was, because they didn’t exist in his lifetime.
Moreover, he didn’t live at […]
Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty is, and has been, locked into a “No New Taxes” philosophy during his entire tenure. This, of course, is absurd when at the same time he pushes obligations mandated to the state back to the cities, where homeowners are saddled with burdensome increased property taxes, where school districts are forced […]
Feb 6th, 2009 by Alan Miller in Economy, Congress
There are times when I wish someone in Washington could throw civility out the window, and just stand up and tell it like it is.
Today’s news tells of another 600,000 jobs lost — in January, 2009 alone — bringing the national unemployment level to 7.6%, the worst since the great depression, and yet […]
