The Occupy Wall Street protests taking place across the country reflect a growing populist anger among Americans. The protesters have every right to be angry, but their anger is misdirected. In m...
http://bradraple.blogspot.com/2011/11/what-should-role-of-government-be.html
During last week's debate, Newt Gingrich was asked what he had done to earn the $300,000 Freddie Mac had given him. Gingrich claimed Freddie Mac paid him as a "historian" who warned the company a...
http://bradraple.blogspot.com/2011/11/during-last-weeks-debate-newt-gingrich.html
"Why the US was downgraded... U.S. Tax revenue: $2,170,000,000,000 Fed budget: $3,820,000,000,000 New debt: $ 1,650,000,000,000 National debt: $14,271,000,000,000 Recent budget cut: $ 38,500,0...
An American law enforcement officer is dead. So are at least a couple hundred Mexicans. It looks like the American government is to blame. Why? It looks more and more certain that high-ranking...
Only 5 more weekdays to go. The U.S. Postal Service lost $8.5 billion last year. It's on pace to do even worse this year, losing $3 billion last quarter alone. The Obama administration has propo...
http://bradraple.blogspot.com/2011/09/only-5-more-weekdays-to-go.html
Conservatives can usually see the unintended, negative consequences that come from government meddling in the economy. Some of them also see the negative, unintended consequences that come from...
http://bradraple.blogspot.com/2011/09/conservatives-can-usually-see.html
This AP article should make people rethink college and how it's funded. For example: - A human development and family services major in his junior year at Colorado State realizes he will...
http://bradraple.blogspot.com/2011/09/educational-industrial-complex.html
Margaret Thatcher famously stated that "the problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." Ever since, conservatives have parroted her observation with smug appro...
http://bradraple.blogspot.com/2011/07/problem-with-deficits.html
At the moment, there is a lot of panic regarding whether or not to raise the statutory $14.2 trillion federal debt limit. This debt limit is a toothless, artificial, self-imposed cap that Congres...
http://bradraple.blogspot.com/2011/07/my-thoughts-on-debt-limit.html
A lot of people are threatening the end of the world if Congress doesn't raise the debt ceiling. But there's an important question that should be asked. By how much? If it's so damn important...
http://bradraple.blogspot.com/2011/07/debt-ceiling-controversy.html
Many people associate pure free-market capitalism with a complete lack of regulation. This is not the case. Regulation is the primary reason free-market capitalism works so well. But in a capital...
http://bradraple.blogspot.com/2011/07/why-more-regulation-is-not-answer.html
Cheapskate For Life
http://bradraple.blogspot.com/2011/06/along-lines-of-my-last-post.html
There is a candidate running in the Republican Presidential Primary who… …has never voted for a tax increase …has never voted for an unbalanced budget …is the only candidate to have...
http://bradraple.blogspot.com/2011/06/brother-can-you-spare-2012.html
Michael Medved vomited up this intellectually dishonest and shallow smear . A sample: "The only possible argument for would involve a sweeping expansion of the fictitious 'right to privacy'�...
http://bradraple.blogspot.com/2011/05/speaking-of-ron-paul-hit-pieces.html
Here's an extremely superficial hit piece on Ron Paul regarding his support for ending the War on Drugs. Regarding whether drug use harms other people: "ne can be a casual consumer of alcoho...
This self-righteous diatribe by Lawrence O'Donnell is a great example of what is wrong with the "progressive" mindset. The same type of unprincipled, shallow thinking is very common within conse...
http://bradraple.blogspot.com/2011/05/healthcare-is-not-right-but-lawrence.html
"WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama's main idea for getting quality health care at less cost was in jeopardy Wednesday after key medical providers called his administration's initial blueprint...
http://bradraple.blogspot.com/2011/05/government-as-provider-of-services.html
Here's my take. I haven't had much time for blog updates lately, so I'm lifting passages from earlier Facebook posts. Enjoy the leftovers. People spend way too much time arguing over whether gl...
http://bradraple.blogspot.com/2011/05/global-warmingclimate-change.html
A while back, a friend asked about my thoughts on this article from the Lawrence Journal-World . The topic was whether a proposed bill in the Kansas House to prohibit the use of union dues on po...
http://bradraple.blogspot.com/2011/05/union-dues-for-political-activities.html
Well, I'll start with the inflationary policies of the Federal Reserve. But numerous other government bureaucracies share the blame. The EPA, the DOT...hell, even the Department of Agriculture. ...
http://bradraple.blogspot.com/2011/05/whos-to-blame-for-high-gas-prices.html
Rachel Maddow seems pretty pleased about the low attendance at recent Tea Party rallies. Well, if she thinks the turnout there is small, she should try to find an anti-war rally . The Progressi...
http://bradraple.blogspot.com/2011/04/hypocrites-on-left-and-right.html
If you had the option to finance a car with an adjustable rate loan, with zero down and no payments for five years, I hope you wouldn't do it. You would be upside down immediately. By the time th...
http://bradraple.blogspot.com/2011/04/rent-center-government.html
No problem here. Nope. No problem.
Cheapskate For Life
http://bradraple.blogspot.com/2011/03/obamas-war-that-isnt-war.html
Some people believe "the enemy of your enemy is your friend." FDR, for example. How else would the United States form an alliance with Joseph Stalin? But this is terrible. Why can't we stop ma...
http://bradraple.blogspot.com/2011/03/when-you-lie-down-with-dogs.html