2 PARAGRAPHS 4 LIBERTY #474 “MORE ON THE MINIMUM WAGE”
I have never seen a stronger argument against the minimum wage laws than the one published in the May 8, 2024 edition of the Orange County Register written by Faryal Ahsan and Austin Hamilton. These...
View Article2 PARAGRAPHS 4 LIBERTY #475 “A MEANINGFUL MEMORIAL DAY!”
As you know, tomorrow we celebrate Memorial Day. (And I will proudly fly our Great Country’s flag again tomorrow!) This was originally known as “Decoration Day” in the years following the Civil War,...
View Article2 PARAGRAPHS 4 LIBERTY #476 “BROKEN HEARTED”
Cute as a button and smart as a whip! Our beloved little Golden Retriever puppy Nyxie Marie! We taught her how to differentiate between colors and answer yes/no questions. She achieved Canine Good...
View Article2 PARAGRAPHS 4 LIBERTY #477: “INFLATION IS A TAX!”
All households must budget to stay within their means. Why? Because otherwise they will go bankrupt, which will cause all of the family members substantial and prolonged despair. But our federal...
View Article2 PARAGRAPHS 4 LIBERTY #478 “TOO MUCH GOVERNMENT”
The June 12, 2024 edition of the Orange County Register told us that the State of California has more than 220,000 full-time employees! Of course, that is in addition to hundreds of thousands of...
View Article2 PARAGRAPHS 4 LIBERTY #479 “UCI IS COMMITTED”
Years ago 23 men committed offenses that resulted in their eventually being committed to R. J. Donovan Correctional Facility, which is a state prison for men in San Diego near the Mexican border. But...
View Article2 PARAGRAPHS 4 LIBERTY #480: “BRINGING US TOGETHER”
I have just found a follow-up to my wonderful father’s statement that “You have every right to disagree, but you have no right to be disagreeable,” and it is found in an article by Lawrence W. Reed in...
View Article2 PARAGRAPHS 4 LIBERTY #481 “THE BIGGEST THREAT TO OUR COUNRTY!”
In my view, the most dangerous threat to our safety and security is not the possibility of being invaded by another country, terrorist actions by any of the world’s radical elements, climate change or...
View Article2 PARAGRAPHS 4 LIBERTY #482 “FEEDBACK”
Last week’s 2 Paragraphs column entitled “The Biggest Threat to our Country” received a great deal of feedback.* Thank you all, because the entire purpose of this column is to promote thought and...
View Article2 PARAGRAPHS 4 LIBERTY #483 “THE HEALING POWER OF FEDERALISM”
To state the obvious, today our Great Nation is in many ways divided and even polarized. How can we address and overcome this difficulty? Through the healing power of Federalism.* And what is that? It...
View Article2 PARAGRAPHS 4 LIBERTY #485 “BEING CHOKED BY REGULATIONS”
The first paragraph of the article entitled “Rationales for New Regulation” in the Summer 2024 edition of Regulation: The CATO Review of Business and Government, reads as follows: “By any measure, US...
View Article2 PARAGRAPHS 4 LIBERTY #486: “QUESTIONS TO STIMULATE THOUGHT”
As is said routinely, the purpose of this column is to stimulate thought and discussion. So in that pursuit I am passing along to you, with permission, a list of issues that one of our 2 Paragraphs...
View Article2 PARAGRAPHS 4 LIBERTY #487 CURIOUS
Happily many people from widely different backgrounds and experiences have reached the same conclusions that I have about the failure of our country’s policy of Drug Prohibition. One of them is Ms....
View Article2 PARAGRAPHS 4 LIBERTY #488: “MY TOP TWELVE HEROES”
Of course no one can narrow their heroes in life down to just twelve people, and what does the word hero mean anyway? I don’t have Jesus Christ on my list because many people believe He was a God who...
View Article2 PARAGRAPHS 4 LIBERTY #489 “A TINY BIT OF PRAISE”
As I have told you before, about five years ago I was on the syndicated radio show called “Coast to Coast” with George Noory discussing criminal justice issues. Soon thereafter I received letters from...
View ArticleDr. Milton Friedman Still Lives!
Just thought you might be interested. This past August 16 I published an article entitled “Incentivizing work and family values: Dr. Milton Friedman Still Lives!” in the Los Angeles Daily Journal,...
View Article2 PARAGRAPHS 4 LIBERTY #490 “LET THE FREE MARKET DO IT”
There is an old saying that “In politics reality is irrelevant; it is only the voters’ perception of reality that matters.” And, regretfully, I believe that this is true. So when we have a housing...
View Article2 PARAGRAPHS 4 LIBERTY #392 “THE RIGHT THING FOR THE RIGHT REASON”
When I was seeking to become a federal prosecutor in Los Angeles part of the application process was to emphasize that, as a prosecutor, we were always to try to “Do the Right Thing for the Right...
View Article2 PARAGRAPHS 4 LIBERTY #393 “GIERACH DRUG POLICY DECLARATION”
Some of the best people I have ever met in my life have come from my involvement in trying to help our country change its drug policy. One of those people is my friend James E. (Jim) Gierach, who is a...
View Article2 PARAGRAPHS 4 LIBERTY #394 “APPRECIATION!”
I just returned from a reunion of my Class of 1962 at John Muir High School in Pasadena. Since pretty much all of us are or soon will be 80 years old our reunion was called our class’s 80th Birthday...
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