Author: Brooks A. Mick

Some people have fretted, suffering high anxiety, because the Mayan calender supposedly shows the world ending on December 21, 2012. Well, 2012 is finally here. I do not expect that the world will end, or even that mankind …

There are just some things that men can understand and women can’t. a) Thermostats. b) Cloth.

Thermostats are easy to comprehend regarding why women can’t understand them. They are electromechanical devices, and women are just not programmed genetically …

The last time I threw my hat into the ring, in 2008, I garnered four supporters. But this looks like an ABO year, anybody but Obama, and so I may do better. I tested the water on the …

John Maynard Keynes was a socialist who was also a famous economist. As a socialist, he was interested in economic theories that would justify big government and big spending. It was rather clear that, were government to spend …

If you have ever lived back in the woods where houses still had functioning outhouses, you should definitely read Chic Sale’s small book, “The Specialist.” You will find it hysterically funny. Even if you never used an outhouse, …

Somebody has finally taken the simple step of producing “The Graph of GDP versus DEBT.” You would have thought some bright economist might have done this before, wouldn’t you?

A recent Gallup poll:

“PRINCETON, NJ — In 2010, 31% of Americans identified as Democrats, down five percentage points from just two years ago and tied for the lowest annual average Gallup has measured in the last 22 years. While …

An book has just been published by the author of “The Black Swan,” Nassim Nicholas Taleb, in which he states that the Obama stimulus bill weakened the US economy. I hate to tell Mr. Taleb, but I’ve been saying …

I’ve noticed something a bit odd about the warnings that the FDA is putting out about various drugs. Two which struck me most strongly were the warnings about Advair, an inhaler that combines a corticosteroid to fight inflammation and …

I have oscillated rather violently, like a manic pendulum, between considering Obama is a rabid ideologue who chooses the wrong course simply because he lacks real-world experience and goes with ivory-tower Marxist book-learning, or considering him to be a malevolent …

We’ve had Newspeakers even before Orwell put a name on it. But it seems to have worsened recently.

Clinton decided to call government spending “investment.” As if that makes it less of an expense! Democrats now call it …

She seems like a sweet enough person, not very scary to look at. A bit grandmotherly even if a bit young for that. But by golly she does scare me.

What I am really afraid of is not Elena …

Alfred North Whitehead once said, “It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious”. What could be more obvious than combining two military bases into one? Well, combining 26 into 12, for sure!

The stock market had a decent though not spectacular climb from around 8500 to 11,000, and at that point there ensued some severe fluctuations, large dips and almost as large rebounds. I hope you were all in the market …

The fairy tale about the goose that laid the golden eggs was really a parable about the private enterprise system versus liberalism as it is currently constituted–which is, to be plain, Marxist-Leninist. With the election of the Democrats in …