It’s July 23, 2009, and as the nation does every year on this date, I’d like to propose a few July 23rd resolutions:
1) Don’t speak for me. Just because you start an organization that sounds as if it represents a broad base of voters, you do not have the right to speak for me. Stop [...]

For those unfamiliar with the above acronym, OCTFCU stands for the Orange County Teachers Federal Credit Union.  They recently changed their name to SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union.  This bothers me for two reasons.  First (which isn’t as big a deal as the second) is that I and many others grew up saying Octafoo.  What are [...]

The stimulus bill is more expensive than the Iraq and Afghanistan war combined. 
“As a nation, we got into this mess by spending and investing money that didn’t exist. We won’t get out of it by doing more of the same.”  Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK).  That is why it is called a bubble.  There’s nothing of [...]

The recession is affecting all areas of the country.  Stores are dropping prices, people are losing their jobs, and schools are canceling…school.
At Mountainville Academy, a charter school in Alpine, Utah, poor money management and a recessing economy have taken a large toll. Last year the school ran a budget deficit and hoped to pull out of it this year. [...]