Reducing Emissions Through Limiting House Size

Reducing emissions is the goal. Our city government addresses climate change. To me, it seems a little like making a plan at the city level for influencing nuclear disarmament or accomplishing interplanetary space travel, out of the realm of proper city subjects. Bozeman’s North East Neighborhood News, March 2010 states, “The future of lowering emissions [...]

Liberalism Pseudo-science

Listening to a radio program where paranormal phenomena were being repudiated, I reflected on another form of pseudo-science: liberalism. Thomas Sowell, in The Quest for Cosmic Justice, and other writings, points out that advocates for socialism never check their data. Programs throughout US history and socialism’s experiments around the world over the past 100 years, [...]

Health Care Passes. Sound the Dirge.

R.I.P., U.S.A. Dastardly! They passed the loathsome thing. Oh, the perfidy, the chicanery! Obama and Pelosi scaled the summit. But every step, underfoot, lie crushed the liberties, lives and health of their subjects. We have witnessed the hasty dismantling of the rule of law, of freedom of contract, of an economy based on individualism and [...]

Everyone is a Child

The Washington Post reports: Regardless of the political fallout, historians say health-care reform will take its place in the same category as the enactment of Social Security in 1935 and Medicare in 1965, and only a rung or two below passage of the major civil rights bills of the 1950s and 1960s. In addition to [...]

Candidacy is a Meat Market

Candidacy is a Meat Market Want to be judged as in a beef judging contest or a meat market? Run for public office. Here are some of the guidelines for judging beef: First, because it’s most important for meat quality, inspect the animal’s muscling, especially over the shoulders, loins, rump and round. The muscle should be [...]

California’s Budget, Montana’s Budget

California’s “ongoing annual budget problem is about $20 billion.” LAO of CA. Nov. 2009. California’s population is 36 million. Montana’s is 974,000 or 1/37th that of CA. Our budget problem, projected to 2013, is $473 million, 1/42nd that of CA. Montana’s budget problems are nearly as bad, person-for-person, as California’s highly publicized problems.

WIC Trouble

WIC Trouble A friend was buying groceries. The woman ahead of her was paying for her cart of groceries with WIC bucks. (Women, Infants and Children food program, from the US Department of Agriculture, administered by the states.) The woman held up the line for 15 minutes. She not only looted their wallets but inconvenienced [...]