http://kingofforest.com Rants, Reactions, Ruminations, and Remedies from a thoughtful citizen Wed, 13 May 2009 14:27:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en On 25 Feb 2009 the Boston Globe published a commentary by Alicia Munnell, a professor at Boston College, which explained why she thought that Social Security was not in trouble. As it happens, the same week Joe Conason's column at Salon addressed pretty much the same topic and with ... http://kingofforest.com/archives/188 Last spring my friend Ira Goldman, inventor of the KneeDefender™ and other interesting gadgets (I wrote about the KneeDefender™ here) wrote me a note about a personal quandary, a momentary "crisis of conservatism" brought on by some particularly noxious behavior on the part of people exercising their "free market" right ... http://kingofforest.com/archives/184 8 October 2008 I have a home construction project looming in my future, and I decided that would be a good opportunity to upgrade my environmental footprint (and reduce my energy bills) by adding a solar electrical generation system to the mix. So I did some research on what it ... http://kingofforest.com/archives/181 About a month before the election a small news story appeared about Bruce Springsteen performing a minor concert at a Barack Obama campaign rally. That brought to mind an earlier report of Barbara Streisand doing something similar and the big news from the primary season of Oprah Winfrey's endorsement ... http://kingofforest.com/archives/187 This is my question for the Presidential candidates in the upcoming debate. http://kingofforest.com/archives/180 Back in August the editorial board of The Boston Globe published a diatribe about the stupidity of anyone who couldn't see how wonderful the world would be if only we would reduce the speed limit back to 55 miles per hour. OK, that wasn't really what the editorial said. It ... http://kingofforest.com/archives/186 In mid May Jeff Jacoby used his column in The Boston Globe (McCain's Supreme Wrongheadedness) to criticize John McCain's notion of the ideal Supreme Court justice as one who deferred to the legislative authority -- and reminded us that enforcing the Enumerated Powers of the Constitution on both the Legislative ... http://kingofforest.com/archives/185 In her New York Times column on 4 May 2008 (This Bud's For You) Maureen Dowd wondered "Why does Obama, the one with the bumpy background and mixed racial heritage, the one raised by a single mother who was on food stamps, seem so forced when he mingles with the ... http://kingofforest.com/archives/183 In May of 2008 Edward Glaeser, a professor of economics at Harvard University, wrote an op-ed for the Boston Globe (Budgeting based on results) in which he advocated some simple rules that would make budgeting in government more effective. The thrust of his article was that results of government ... http://kingofforest.com/archives/182 Here is my take on Barack Obama and the Reverend Wright: most people and especially Obama partisans, have missed the point. http://kingofforest.com/archives/179