Skip to content Skip to sidebar Skip to footer
The Future of Nations

The Future of Nations

There are about 200 sovereign nations in the world today, ranging widely in population, land area, economic and social conditions, religious make-up, and, not least, political organization. Representative capitalist democracies, of which the United States is the oldest continuously surviving and most successful, but not the largest, have been the prototype of advanced self-government for…

Read more

Restoring Fiscal Sanity

Restoring Fiscal Sanity

The recent federal money dustup between Democrats and Republicans, big spenders versus less big, featured a bill longer than Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace – 1,500 pages. This is the tip of the iceberg. What is coming is a fight for fiscal sanity. Next year, we will hit the full iceberg. What people do not…

Read more

Give or Take?

Give or Take?

‘Tis the season for giving. For me, that mostly means supporting charities. One organization I donate to is SSP, Student Sponsor Partners, a nonprofit that gives scholarships to kids from low-income families. SSP helps children escape bad public schools by providing grants to students so they can pay the cheaper tuition at mostly Catholic schools.…

Read more

Capitol Hill’s DOGE Lawmakers Ready to Reduce Regulatory Burdens for Everyday Americans

Capitol Hill’s DOGE Lawmakers Ready to Reduce Regulatory Burdens for Everyday Americans

In Ronald Reagan’s stirring 1964 “A Time for Choosing” speech, he said: “No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. So governments’ programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we’ll ever see on this earth.”  Reagan’s words were as true 60 years ago as they are today. And,…

Read more

the Kick-ass Multipurpose WordPress Theme

© 2025 Kicker. All Rights Reserved.