Must Know "You" Before "Do"

"It's my life, and I'll do what I want to." Most people define freedom as license, as in pursuing whatever a person wants to. However, this line of thinking produces more bondage than freedom. How do we really know what we want, unless we know who we...

From "Business Insider": Ten Unhappiest Jobs

TeacherAverage salary: $43,663Bliss Score: 3.595/5Why: CareerBliss' chief executive Heidi Golledge told Smith: "CareerBliss has found through our research that teachers appear to be quite happy with their work and their co-workers. However, the rewards for...

Hermosa Beach Public Safety Unions (False) Alarm

The police and firefighters' unions in Hermosa Beach have issued a joint-statement criticizing city leaders for promoting a 27% cut to the employee salaries and benefits.  The unions have framed their opposition in terms of the negative impact that these cuts...

One Source of Hyperpartisanship, and the Solution

I know, I know, I know. . . The government has too much gridlock. Nothing is getting done. If we accept this premise as true, then where is the greatest source of gridlock in the federal government today? The President of the United States has actively campaigned and...

Embrace Hyperpartisanship

When Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell declared that his number one goal was to make President Obama a "One Term President", I  understood the source of his stance. The President and his Democratic caucus pushed through a massive and massively...

Gridlock: Our Government at Work

The common opinion of pundits and pollsters in this country is that government has grown so partisan that nothing is getting done — nothing at all. I do not accept this view. I am more optimistic, convinced that the federal government is operating just as it...