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One Minute Quiz for Business Owner's Only
This One Minute Quiz for Business Owners Only will provide answers and insight into the most important question every business owner must answer in order to maximize and obtain the wealth locked in their business.

You Can’t Be Fired But Neither Can You Quit

Facing the issue of succession or the sale of one’s business is very much akin to addressing the need for life insurance. Neither subject is addressed with much enthusiasm by the average person. The prudent address the inevitable and prepare. Although only one eventuality exists for us as individuals, three exist for our business: Transfer to family, sell to outsider, or close down. This article is meant to shed light on the contrast betwenn business owner's expectations regarding the transfer of their business and the reality of what really happens.

The Just-Released Secrets of Why the Wealthy Are Dramatically Planning Their Financial Future
Understanding Now More Than Ever Why The Wealthy Are Dramatically Planning Their Financial Future Can Serve You As A Guide To Living A Fulfilled Life. Read more...

It's Time To Bring An End To... Everything!

What is "Occupy Wall Street" all about, you ask? Well, it's hard to say (without knowing)... all we have to go by is what the protestors themselves say to reporters. It's becoming increasingly difficult to get reporters to go in there (now that the dedicated young protestors have been marinating in their natural un-bathed juices for a few weeks), but when they do, they learn, uh, not much. Many protestors they interview actually have no idea why they're there. But others do seem to be against some stuff, such as banks, and wealth, and capitalism, and (as one intelligent young man summarized) everything....

Do You Hate Selling?

Selling has different meanings to everyone, but many of us find it uncomfortable to pitch a product or service, especially if we don’t truly believe in it. But the act of selling changes when we have a strong conviction for what we’re doing and can speak from the heart about it. Then it comes through to your audience as something you sincerely feel is worthy, has real value and you want to share the benefits of.

Things to Consider Before Choosing an Online Business
It is easy to avoid questionable home based business schemes by following ONE simple rule ... A truly legitimate - ethical business will always provide you with full VERIFIABLE information about their true identity and their company right up front. Think about this for just a moment...

No Need To Downsize The American Dream
Personally, I don’t need to watch TV to hear bad news. So, much for the American dream. I hear enough at the grocery store where everyone is talking about all of today’s gloom and doom. It’s everywhere.

Top Five Reasons Why Your E-newsletter isn’t Getting Responses
Whether you're currently sending an e-newsletter that isn't getting results or are considering starting an e-newsletter, there are five techniques that every e-newsletter sender MUST know in order to make their e-newsletter successful.

Wealth Creation
Six Steps to Financial Freedom

Hey, Maybe This Will Win An Award!
Tell you what: those national news-media folks in America are awesome. I know, right? I mean, when I was a young aspiring journalist (I think it was during the Taft administration), they made us report boring stuff, like facts. It must be much more fun to be a journalist these days, when the industry has evolved beyond all that....

The American Dream Downsized, or Upscaled. Your choice.

Today’s news is filled with doom about the economy and dire predictions about a permanent downsizing of the American Dream. It’s as if our futures have become foretold. To me, this is precisely the time to talk about building wealth. The mind numbing tidal wave of financial collapse does not have to engulf you. To avoid it, however, you have to have an evacuation plan that leads to higher financial ground, and you have to choose when to put that plan into action. When it comes to wealth building, it always starts with a choice.

10 reasons why you need an Expert’s Advice
As the retail industry is growing, more and more people are coming in. It is sad to say, but a very few survives. Most of them change their course of business or shuts down. It is found in a survey that one of the top 5 reasons why a retail shuts down is poor domain knowledge.

Wealth Building: Accelerate Your Prosperity

What's the darkest cloud hanging over your head? If you're like most people, it's your financial profile. High debt, a high (and growing) tax burden, and lower earnings can combine to create a worrisome headache for anyone. Sure, the arrival of Spring brings most of us a little uplift in attitude... but to truly revitalize your mindset, start by attacking those dark storm clouds in your personal finances....

Two Lessons From The Global Economy
The future will belong to Smart Entrepreneurs: people who are willing to bet on themselves and take initiative, but who also have taken the time and energy to educate themselves about what's really going on in the global economy. Experts say more "new money" wealthy will be created during the coming few months than at any time in history... and that should be highly inspiring to you....

What's The Best Internet Business To Start?

Of course, you have to make a TEAM of investments (Time, Energy, Attention, and Money) to get into any business, and that never changes. These days, though, you can get into business in cyberspace for a fraction of the TEAM investment previous generations needed to open retail stores, car washes, or law offices. And there are plenty of online business opportunities out there. But which one's best....

Where Are All The Small Businesses?
Sure, the economy is tough, and it's hard to run a successful business even when times are good. You have to make a lot of good decisions, minimize your mistakes, delight your customers, motivate your team. In any time or place, it can seem like an uphill climb. But lately, I've been saddened by seeing too many nice little businesses fail....

How To Increase Sales Performance

Sales is actually a subset of the company's overall marketing effort - it's the primary tool through which a business finds its customers (just as Customer Service is the subset of marketing activities responsible for keeping those customers). When revenue lags, the marketing manager (or entrepreneur) has to look first at how to increase sales performance. And it turns out Sales has its own lesser-known set of 4-P fundamentals: Planning, Prospecting, Presenting, and Paperwork....

Three Strategies For Crash-Proof Wealth Building
Experts say the powers-that-be have already taken us past the point of no return on global financial collapse, and it's just a matter of time. What can you do to prepare? How can you build wealth, and what is still possible in terms of crash-proofing your prosperity? The first three strategies you should consider are entrepreneurship, education, and engagement....

I Want You To Be Stinking Rich
The progressives who've ended up with power in America want you poor, and dependent upon the government for your very livelihood. I don't. I want you to be stinking rich, and making the nation (and the world) a better place for all of us....

Get In The Business Of Getting Into Business

People are making excellent incomes online these days, and enjoying the lifestyle of freedom and prosperity that comes with internet business ownership. Perhaps the greatest opportunity is in recruiting - inspiring others to start their own home businesses, and coaching them to success in their enterprises. If you don't have a Big Idea for an internet business that no one's thought of before, you can join any number of legitimate, lucrative, ready-made platforms for your own business....

The Coming Economic Basket Case
Hey, guess what! It's Easter weekend, and all over the world, folks' thoughts are turning to baskets. Homemade, store-bought, or recycled from last year... pretty baskets filled with colored eggs and candy. Oh, and don't forget the festive "basket of currencies" with which they're planning to replace the U.S. Dollar as the world's reserve currency....

A Century Of Leadership - Good And Bad

It might be simplistic, and I certainly invite discussion, but today I'm ranking the men who've held the office of President since 1911 in terms of how well they did in resisting this "progress" toward socialism/collectivism by their overall support of the U.S. Constitution. My thinking is this: if, as the foremost leader of the federal government, the president can do a good job at fulfilling his/her oath to uphold the Constitution, prosperity generally becomes much easier to obtain in America (and, frankly, elsewhere in the world). When the president fails to protect the Constitution (or, worse, attacks it), he or she aids the progressive march toward collectivism - but pulls the nation away from prosperity and strength....

Gas Price Signs: Unfair Right-Wing Messaging!

Gas has never been this expensive in America - and experts say this is just the beginning. But wasn't this all supposed to be George W. Bush's fault? As I recall, Bush, somehow in cahoots with Big Oil and Terrorist Oil Cartels, single-handedly drove gas prices pretty high in 2008, and that's why we desperately needed to elect Barack Obama. But Bush has been gone for more than two years now, and gas is higher than ever. How could this be?

Don't Shrug Off This Movie!
As a book, Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" stands as one of the greatest works of literature in history. As a movie, "Part I" is pretty good... the performances are at least OK, and the faithfulness to the story is outstanding. But as an event, the release of this movie is nothing short of amazing....

It's Re-Election Time! Get The Picture?

So while everyone was thinking about the brave troops who finally capped Osama Bin Laden the other day, I was also thinking about whether or not they had a 71-Quebec out there with them on that mission (that's Army Talk for "journalist," or at least it used to be). I guess they must have, because this week's big news is President Obama's decision not to release the photos that were taken of Dead Terrorist Number One. So since the global paparrazzi corps was busy sobering up in London after Will-'n'-Kate, and since civilian "journalists" only take pictures of car chases and tornado damage (when they can squeeze those things in around their grip-and-grin work at the White House), any photos that existed had to have been taken by some hard-working military journalist....

It's The (Growth Of The) Economy, Stupid
Let me explain why I think every American family should have at least one good, solid entrepreneurial venture going these days....

Presenting The Unprecedented President
This week, President Obama used his favorite word several more times. That word is "unprecedented." Easily, the present president has used that word to a degree which is without precedent, unprecedented by any of the preceding previous presidents who previously preceded him. Easily....

Money Is Your Servant
Money issues seem to be an ongoing challenge for many of us. We tend to try to control it, as if it were a beast. We put boundaries, rules, limitations, and goals in place to make us feel like we're being "good" and doing it "right."

What Are Your Dreams Waiting For?
Thank God for hard-charging, high-flying cadets like my niece. We need her out there, soaring into the wild blue yonder... and we also need entrepreneurs in every family, with their feet firmly planted on the ground and their dreams free to fly through the heavens. When the predicted crash has come and gone, the entrepreneurs in every family will be the ones who make our nation soar again....

Here's My Favorite Simple Habits To Financial Success
Learn how to increase your income and be savvy with managing money!

5 Awesome Abundance Affirmations
Learn how to increase your income and be savvy with managing money!

5 Factors Catapult Online Money Making

Despite what you may be thinking (and what the mass media would have you believe)...Participating In The Recession is optional. I have the rare opportunity with my work as a financial teacher to see the inside scoop on everyone's financial profile; from income, to budget, to expenses, to bank account, and assets too! 5 factors have culminated to create a window of opportunity like never before seen for those willing to educate themselves and take action! So, if you'd rather "Opt-Out" and NOT PARTICIPATE in the current economic recession (and why wouldn't you?), this could be THE MOST IMPORTANT ARTICLE YOU READ this (Or Any Other) Year.

Cling On, Bitter Clingers!

If we're going to borrow billions of bucks from our buddies in China and send those bucks to Egypt, I would rather we sent them directly to individual Egyptians and God-fearing Muslims... perhaps they have some bitter clingers in their own small towns who don't yet have a Walmart Super Center and could really use some of our money. Let them start businesses and make investments... after all, the U.S. government will tell you it's perfectly OK for anyone to make profits and build wealth, as long as they're not doing that in America....

Does Prosperity Always Encompass Wealth?

There's a global economic storm coming that's going to make the Great Depression of the 1930s look like good times. Despite proclamations of recovery by the mainstream media and other mouth-pieces who represent the world's money-elite (the U.S. and other governments, the Federal Reserve, financial "advisors" and the biggest global banks), real experts say real hard times are just around the corner....

Should The Government Help Beggars?

As our nation continues its debate (fight) over entitlement reform, we beg (forgive me) this essential question: are we a society of entrepreneurs, or of beggars? The more we push toward redistribution of wealth, the more weatlh we'll eventually run out of - leaving even the beggars, well, begging. If we can swing back to being a nation of wealth-builders, though, there will actually be more wealth for everyone....

Don't Get Sucked Into Class Envy
The progressive would-be opinion makers want to play to your sense of victimhood. They want you to look with envy upon those with more than you have, and to demand "your" share of what they've earned. They want you to spend your precious life energy being pissed-off at rich people....

Yeah, Let's Go Back To 1967!
I don't think the president was speaking only about Israel. In truth, I think Mr. Obama was trying to tell us that he really just wants the whole world - everybody, all of us - to go back to '67....

Wealth Building Depends On Low Taxes

The hue and cry in American society today is "tax the rich." Some on the left even screech "Eat the rich!" The collectivist/statists currently running the U.S. government continue to barrel down the road of high taxes and high spending, encouraging class envy, and putting America firmly on a path toward confiscatory taxation. And they, along with their sycophants in the media, never seem to run out of fools who can be persuaded that this is the correct course for the country....

The Wiener That Ate New York!
But wait: what's this? Turns out Wiener, who just last summer found time in his hectic Beck-bashing schedule to marry a young protege of Hillary Clinton's, has been sending tawdry self-portraits over the internet to various OTHER young women, such as a college girl in Seattle. Really? Seriously, Congressman...?

Start Your Business Venture Now

During the Great Depression, more millionaires were created than at any other time in history. They were the Entrepreneurs, the ordinary people who didn't lose their way, and didn't lose their nerve. They realized that times of extreme calamity present new and unprecedented opportunities. They cut themselves loose from the stranglehold of socialist administration, and went out and started a business....

Renewing Limited Government: Spending Limits

We have to renew limited government in the United States, or the entire world will enter a new era of darkness the likes of which no one can foresee. There are at least ten limits we could impose on government (and, in some cases, on what I see as quasi-governmental U.S. institutions) that would have a remarkable turn-around impact on our economy - and on our society. And one of the first, if not THE first, is to limit government spending....

Leadership Traits - Does Your Leader Have These Traits?

I've been a leadership counselor for years, but since the last presidential election I've come to realize that I've been doing it all wrong. Clients often ask me what the great leadership traits are, and of course no one has a comprehensive list. But given what I've learned since 2008, I've revised my list of the core traits that make a great (as far as you know) leader. Here are some of the biggies....

Too Big To Fail: Part Of The Story
I didn't know what to expect from a network whose producers happily broadcast leftist Bill Maher's periodic rants... but I should have expected exactly what "Too Big To Fail" delivered: part of the story, with some very key ingredients left out (or distorted). That's just what you get when the progressives have overrun (and merged) the information and entertainment industries....

Three Reasons Now's The Time
Many of my clients are thinking about starting a business, but wonder about the timing. After all, the economy's a mess, right? It is, but that doesn't mean it's a bad time to make an investment, even a big one such as a business start-up....

Debt Ceiling? What Debt Ceiling?
The other day, we're driving down the road, and I see a big AWESOME boat and trailer parked out in front of a dealership. "Cool!" I say. "I'm getting that!" But Colonel Wife was all, like, no way we could afford to spend that kind of money. But I go, "Ridiculous. We'll just raise our Debt Ceiling...".

Dad's Job Advice
As a counselor to consultants and other business operators, as well as to personal clients, I'm often told stories of work woe. Most people (especially those who have a coach or counselor) have at least some degree of dissatisfaction with their job....

These Storms Aren't Really Storms
There is no truth to the rumor that the president's hometown will now be known as the "Appropriately Windy City, No More Windy Than Any Other...".

Don't Raise The Debt Ceiling, Ever
Regardless of the wheeling and dealing that's been going on for weeks in the hallowed halls of Washington, there is no good reason to raise the federal government's debt ceiling. Ever....

Peas And Carrots
I am as proud of the president now as I've ever been, or ever will be. Just the other day, he proclaimed that we need to "eat our peas." And I think we should give peas a chance....

Two Views Of America's Future

Believe it or not, I never cared much for politics. It always seemed like the political machinations of running the country were happening someplace far away, that people who cared deeply about such things were "on it," and that there wasn't much a single person could do to change things, anyway. Besides, I was generally too busy raising kids, running a business, or leading a team to give politics much time or thought....

Don't Vote For Me In 2004
Here's a true story of idiocy and self-deprecation. After the Twin Towers fell in 2001 (and after a few days of shock and mourning), like most big-mouths, I started spouting off about what I would do if I were president of these-here United States....

Occupy The Vote!

They say that if you're in your twenties and you're not a liberal, you have no heart - and that if you're in your forties and you're not a conservative, you have no brain. This is true, of course... so the key to attaining our Utopian national bliss is to make a few simple changes to our voting laws! I mean, if we work it right, we can make people vote so brainlessly they won't even know they're voting....

Government Takeover: We're Boiling
In business school I learned of the parable of the boiling frog - the story that illustrates how gradual, progressive movements can radically transform a situation. It's a story all Americans should understand today....

They Blinded Us With "Science!"

I finally found my true calling the other day, when I had the sad fortune to find a dead bunny rabbit just off the front porch of our country home. I conducted a thorough examination of the bunny's carcass before properly disposing of it - by which I mean, I looked at it from a safe and comfortable distance. I could not see what might've caused the bunny's demise, so of course I concluded that the poor wretch paid the ultimate price for the sinful climate change caused by humankind....

Happy Birthday, Colorado

I think there's a reason Ayn Rand picked Colorado as the fictional last bastion of entrepreneurship in the dark world she described in "Atlas Shrugged." And today, when those who want to ride in the wagon are beginning to overburden those who are willing to pull it, American can take a lesson from the Centennial State. This nation is not about victims, or collectivism, or false socialist ideals. It's about rugged individualism. It's about being willing to start a business, to create opportunities where none existed before, to build wealth through toil and ingenuity....

Is China Running Out Of Our Money?

It's been said that the trouble with collectivist economic approaches, such as socialism and communism, is that, eventually, you run out of other peoples' money. If there's a lesson from the last century of adventures in collective statism, I guess it's that the big collective economies only work for a while, and only if there's a bigger free-market economy out there (like ours has been), cranking out growth and creating markets for the rest of the world....

Downgrade Should Shock Nobody
By now you know that Standard & Poor's downgraded America's federal debt, attaching a negative outlook to the rating that promises more such downgrades in the future (barring stark changes in the current government's economic direction). For the first time in the history of such ratings, America is no longer considered a safe bet....

It's The Imaginary Economy, Stupid
It's a bit early, kind of, but the national media is really into this whole 2012 re-election campaign. And the eighty percent of national news personalities who tend to "lean forward" (possibly because it's much easier than trying to find and report actual facts) refer to it precisely as the "2012 re-election" because, well, they have determined that the president deserves your vote - again....

Business Makes, But Government Takes
A "Demediacrat" said the other day that, if the government puts people to work digging a ditch and then filling it in again, it's not a bad thing. "At least they're productively employed," was the assertion....

When Mars Attacks, The Economy Roars!
When I was a student at the Graduate School of Public Administration (our school colors were red and more red; our motto, "Sempre Turfbuildus"), they made us study the works of major geniuses in such fields as economics and massive government. One of the chief geniuses in both fields was Paul Krugman, who was an advisor to President Clinton (and now claims President Obama among his adherents)....

Renewing Limited Government

The whole idea behind America is that, at least with regard to daily life in a temporal world, the people can rule themselves. The nation's founders, in establishing the framework for this great experiment (which is what it was, 235 years ago), realized that government would grow to fill all unguarded space in terms of power, and therefore they worked hard to set up a constitutional system of "limited" government....

Who Says There Are No Jobs?
Despite record levels of unemployment, we all know, of course, that our president is on the case. He's the Jobs President... if you don't believe it, just ask him, or any of his sycophantic Demediacrats! But only those who are sufficient Biblical scholars to have heard of Job (with a capital "J") understand that it's really a case of mispronunciation of the vowel....

The Earthquake That Ate Washington!
Seismologists watching California fear the "San Andreas Fault," because it can cause earthquakes that bring a lot of damage. President Obama talks more about "Bush's Fault," which apparently caused the unlikely recent D.C. earthquake... though it's the current president's policies that're doing all the damage....

Mom! He Got More Than I Got!

You will always find "prosperity" after "progressivism." That is, if by "always find," you are referring to looking these two words up in the dictionary. In the real world, of course, it turns out to be just the opposite... and subversives in our culture, from those who own a business to those who support one-percenters like Mitt Romney, always seem to fall all over themselves pointing this out....

Renewing Limited Government: Term Limits
In America, the "land of the free," the government has run amok. The Founders, who fought (and in some cases, died) to leave a country wherein citizens were to rule and the government was supposed to be limited, would be shocked at the size of the behemoth that is the modern federal government. And many states have just as bloated a bureaucracy....

Taking Exception To America
President Obama famously said he believed in American exceptionalism in the same way Brits believe in British exceptionalism, and the Irish believe in Irish exceptionalism, etc. Of course, if everyone's exceptional, no one is... which I think was the president's point. There's nothing special about you Americans! Sit down and shut up!...

Renewing Limited Government: Page Limits
No one has talked about page limits, but I believe it's a serious idea that would productively limit the growth of the government beast while costing America nothing. The Constitution of the United States was fewer than fifty pages long - no federal legislation should be longer....

You Will Notice What We Tell You To Notice!
Just the other day... months and months after the fact... the venerable Washington Post reported that, though it went "largely unnoticed" at the time, Islamicists were at the center of the "Arab Spring" revolutions earlier this year, including the more recent regime change in Libya....

Get The Facts And Fight The Smears!
Well, guess what! It's campaign season again (like that ever ends), and we have a whole new snitch site: "AttackWatch.com," complete with Soviet-style black-and-red graphics, which asks us to "get the facts, fight the smears!" Otherwise, those non-liberals in the media (both of them) might convince some people to vote against the president's re-election....

Renewing Limited Government: Tax Limits
In latter years, Americans have fallen asleep, and have allowed their elected (and unelected) leaders to dodge the Constitutional limits on government... far too often, for far too long. Until we get back to true limited government, as defined by the Constitution, America will continue to slide toward the collectivist abyss that has claimed every great nation in history....

Shocking Shark Shenanigans!
The bottom line is this: the Tea Party is a major threat to our increasingly-socialist way of life. Left unchecked, they'd have us go back to the failed policies of the past, under which people got away with insane capers like starting a business, building wealth, or even furnishing others with private employment. Say it isn't so! We must not go back! We must always, always lean forward....

Renewing Limited Government: Debt Limits
U.S. government debt should be limited to a fraction of what it is today - say, one trillion dollars after we've had a chance to renew limited government for a few years - and the limit should be strictly enforced. It's not only possible; if we want the nation to survive, it's necessary....

Renewing Limited Government: Bureaucracy

Bureaucracy in the federal government is a little like bad weather: people complain about it, but nobody does anything about it. Jokes aside, the citizenry of the United States, intended to be enlightened and to rule itself, has slowly accepted huge and growing levels of ineffective federal bureacracy as inevitable, much like rain, snow, or high winds. But the time has come for America to see the difference. Bureaucracy can, and must, be limited....

Nice Work, If You Can Sit It
A few days ago I heard on the radio contraption that you can make anywhere from $350 to $650 a week to join the "movement," and all you have to do is occupy! I'm definitely going to apply, because I have TONS of experience. I've been occupying various places for years. I'm occupying a space right now! I can do this....

Renewing Limited Government: Regulations
America's 40th president said many spot-on things about the massive growth of government his "progressive" foes always sought. One of my favorite quotes is this little quip Ronald Reagan had to say about the federal government: "It's like a baby. It's an alimentary canal with an appetite on one end and no sense of responsibility on the other...."

Even In Small Bites, Spending Is Hard To Swallow
I'm a nice guy, right? And I really hate to be critical. Really, I do. But I find myself needing to level some biting criticism at what the U.S. administration is cooking up these days....

Renewing Limited Government: Litigation
You can't convince me that tort reform can't be successful in America. You can't tell me that damages can't be limited without limiting the true freedom of Americans. And if you could institute such limits, the overall society would greatly benefit from the added freedom enjoyed by the marketplace....

Hoping For A Meaningful Change

Babies are helpless little critters who need their forebears to take care of every aspect of their lives. Mom and Dad need to feed the baby, clothe the baby, bathe the baby, shelter the baby, teach the baby, and save money so they can educate the baby and help the baby get a good start in life. And regularly, when the baby (who can't do ANY of this for himself) gets stinky, he needs Mom and Dad to change his smelly pants....

Renewing Limited Government: Limit Unions
We can, and must, limit the runaway growth of corrupt labor unions in America. Workers should have the choice to organize, but not be forced to be bled by high dues and high taxes which go to ruin the very companies that employ them. Keep the unions... but limit them to the good and noble function for which they're intended....

They Sure Make Oakland Look Like Paradise!
A few years ago my company sponsored a sales contest (back when companies were allowed to do business by selling things). It was a big deal. First prize was a week-long vacation in Hawaii. Second prize was a week in San Diego. Third prize was a week in Palm Springs. There was also a consolation prize for next-to-last place: a week in Oakland....

Renewing Limited Government: Tenure Limits
Limit the factory of big-government liberalism that the American academic institution has become, and you'll go far toward restoring freedom, prosperity, and strength to America (and to the worldwide economy she leads). And the easiest first step toward a more sane academe would be to limit faculty tenure at all schools, colleges, and universities....

If You Can't Win On Merit, Cheat!
Seen another boffo Republican presidential debate on the TV contraption t'other night... well, part of it, anyway. And I got to thinking: Man, I want that deal! I want to be up in front of all those people, getting to say all those smart things, being the guy who has all the answers on how to fix America....

Renewing Limited Government: Currency Inflation
Slowly, over time (one might say, progressively), we can get rid of currency inflation and get back to a solid dollar. If we did, and we renewed the other essential limits on our government, we'd enter an era of unprecedented worldwide peace, strength, and prosperity....

It's A Blurb! It's A Blame! It's Super Committee!
It was August, it was hot as heck, and the situation was dire. The president needed his credit limit increased in time for the holidays, or the world would be destroyed! So he took the sort of drastic action only a career politician with vast experience in community organizing could take: he appointed a committee....

Why Small Government Is Better
I've written at length about what I see as the biggest need in the United States today: renewing limited government. Why? Because the strength and prosperity of free people throughout the world depends on limited government in the U.S. The more government grows, the more the economy shrinks, taking down with it the freedom, prosperity, and strength of all free nations....

The Trouble With "Capitalism"

Finally, it dawned on me that the president does, indeed, have a grand plan for fixing the mess we're in, and you Obama-fans are to be heartily congratulated for knowing this erudite leader would be smart enough to solve it all. He isn't borrowing mountains of cash from China... no! He's selling off unneeded portions of the U.S. to the Peoples' Republic! Starting with Hawaii. Which is why Hawaii is now part of Asia, which is why the president said that, probably....

The Investment You Can Create
Think about it: every professional who's hung out a shingle and built a client list has created property. Every writer who's published a book has created property. Everyone who's ever come up with a good idea and turned it into a commercial enterprise has created property....

The Turkeys We Send To D.C.
You've heard the old joke, the one they tell every year at this time: "Know why they aren't having Thanksgiving in (Chicago)? They sent the turkey to Washington!" Usually, the quip refers to the president - any president - but lately, all the elected federal officials from both parties have been particularly turkey-like....

Progressivism Isn't Progress

If you own a business, or seek to build wealth through investing, watch out. Beware the march toward big-government tyranny euphemistically labeled "progressivism" these days. Things will get much worse before they get better, no matter what we do now... but if we're committed to real American ideals, business (and the people) will return one day to prosperity. The first step, though arduous, is clear: halt progressivism, wherever you find it, in order to return to progress....

Workers Of The World, Untie!

Maybe the reason a community organizer could rise to the highest office in the land is that, well, the leftist community has always been in great need of organization. The trouble with socialism, as Maggie Thatcher said, is that you eventually run out of other people's money... but the trouble with socialists seems to be that they can't ever agree on which of them is best suited for totalitarian leadership of the Utopia they envision....

Progressivism Isn't Progress, II
In graduate school, they taught us the parable of The Boiling Frog... and, though I think they meant us to take away a different lesson, the parable provides a perfect way to describe "progressivism:" the slow war against freedom, strength, and prosperity being waged in the United States since the late 19th century....

Dickens Would Love "A Broncos Carol"
The ol' Broncos were dead - as dead as a doornail. This must be clearly understood (and at 1-4, believe me, it was clearly understood), or nothing of the miraculous can be perceived in that which follows....

The Academic Roots Of Progressivism
It all started when America decided to hire an erudite professor - a guy who sold things like hope and change, a guy who sounded smart when he said not-so-smart things, a guy who looked better than his Republican opponents - to the presidency. They wanted a change. They just forgot that, when things change, they might get worse - not better....

The Year That Wasn't
So here's a look back at some zany highlights from 2011 - stories you never heard, and which, according to the media and the government, never actually happened....

Progressivism Isn't Progress, IV

The progressives have erected a formidable fortress in the American administrative state. With it, they may well achieve their Holy Grail objective - the collapse of the free market system, the eradication of prosperity, the "equalization" of everyone, and totalitarian government control of the population. We will cease completely to be the nation we were established to be (and the nation we've struggled to act like for decades). We'll still have a "one percent," but they'll be our government masters, not our entrepreneurial employers....

Thank (God) For Godless Holidays
Now that the holidays are over, we can get back to the business of America. And thank God - no, strike that, thank the "community" - we have a president who understands what the business of America is (crony socialism, of course!)....

Progressivism Isn't Progress, V

Collectivists in the United States knew a bloody revolution wouldn't work in America... so they sought to achieve the same ends slowly, through the "evolution" of progressivism. They've been called liberals, socialists, left-wingers, and a variety of other terms - but the "politically correct" label they prefer is "progressive." That's because the term reminds you of "progress" - but progressivism is anything but....

Maintaining Our Spending Superiority

Now that the long-awaited second Carter term is entering its fourth year, we should not be surprised that the president is finally getting a handle on defense spending. He was on the TV contraption the other day, announcing we'll be slashing our defense budget, but "we'll still maintain our military superiority." After all, he argues, we ought to be able to get by on a budget still greater than that of the next ten nations combined....

Progressivism Isn't Progress, VI

One of the big ways the progressives seek your support is to continuously adjust your expectations downward - your expectations of prosperity and abundance, of lifestyle, of enjoying the fruits of honest labor, of a long and happy life itself. They constantly bombard you with messages about how unfair all of those things are, and how evil it supposedly is that some enjoy prosperous lives while others don't....

Progressivism Isn't Progress, VII

I still hear otherwise-brilliant people (including the erudite Newt Gingrich and talented talker Glenn Beck) refer to this "progressivism of the right," claiming that it leads to fascism as inexorably as "progressivism of the left" leads to communism. That's wrong. It's true that progressivism is a disease that's infected all major American institutions of influence, including both political parties, but in fact progressivism only "progresses" in one direction: toward the left, toward big government, and toward totalitarian statism....

Corporations Are Not People!
So we're hanging out in California the other day, because space travel is now affordable and we thought we'd explore a different planet and see if we could find any intelligent life. We didn't. But we did find a lady in a wheel chair, rolling around a resort city with a big sign reading "Corporations Are Not People!" and collecting alms....

One Percent Rap, Dog!
Let's rap about that evil One Percent, testament! They cry, they occupy, downtown in stinky tents. Ain't fair that some got money, while other mothers don't... even if they risk and work while other mothers won't? But take from the residents, and give to the government, all you gonna get is just a different One Percent....

Progressivism Isn't Progress, VIII
It sounds like "progress," but that's only one example of how they deftly make one thing look (or sound) like another in order to produce the desired emotional effect. Everyone likes progress! But few people realize that progressivism is about as far from progress as tyranny is from liberty....

What's With The Party-Pooper In Chief?

Normally I'm very supportive of our president. After all, he has the toughest job on the planet, and it must be incredibly difficult to get up every day and do the often-self-abasing things he has to do to get the job done (meaning, get re-elected with a record of "governance" like his). But he's really dropped the ball on this Keystone Pipeline thing. I mean, Mardi Gras is right around the corner, and he's depriving the gulf states of the smoothest Got-danged beer out there....

Progressivism Isn't Progress, IX

If the progressives get their way, your efforts to do your best will not only be unappreciated, they'll be opposed. The mass victim mentality that will dominate the society will replace "Be all you can be" with "Who do you think you are?"... "Work hard to get ahead" with "Why do you think you can have something I don't have?"... and "It's important to make a good impression" with "Why are you trying to make the rest of us look bad?" When "fairness" reigns, personal excellence will become a bad thing....

Smartest President EVER!
We're in a tight spot here in America, possibly because NO ONE could've realized how badly the previous U.S. administration had balled things up - not even the smartest president ever, who got us to give him the job based on the assurance that he - and only he - could fix it. Here we are, though, more than three years later, and just look at how brilliantly it's all coming together....

Progressivism Isn't Progress, X

The word "progessive" sounds good, because it makes you think of "progress." But since it is slowly taking America (and the rest of the world) away from the principles of liberty, private property, and limited government upon which the nation was founded (and which made the United States the greatest engine of strength and prosperity for all the world's peoples in the history of the human race), progressivism definitely isn't progress....

Again, With The Occupation?
Are you overcome with a feeling of deja vu, all over again? If you're like me (and I know I am), you might be. Just four short years ago, in 2008, some giants from New York won an epic contest over some patriots, despite the fact the patriots were favored. And it's, like, happening again....

Progressivism Isn't Progress, XI
Things we used to think were outlandish are now business-as-usual. Things we used to do, or say, or even think, have now been proclaimed wrong and bad... and we no longer do, or say, or try to think those things. That's progressivism....

Eat Your Vegetables... Or ELSE!
"Your pet carrot will live," the doctor said, "but it's going to be a vegetable for the rest of its life." Maybe you've heard that old joke, and you've probably heard the old expression "You are what you eat." Synthesize these two, and add the recent brainless activity of a guv'mint school lunch inspector, and you see how serious our dear leaders are about eating vegetables....

Progressivism Isn't Progress, XII

Taking the country back from the progressives is the biggest project we've ever faced - even bigger than the World Wars and the Great Depression (which many now believe was caused by the very governmental intrusion that purported to "solve" it). In fact, in the progressive movement, America may finally have met her match. We may well end up willingly destroying ourselves, generations after other "super power" regimes learned the same lessons we're about to learn the hard way....

End-Of-Life Counseling For America
That President Obama ROCKS! I know, right? I mean, we need to re-elect that dude right away, if for no other reason than his awesome health care reforms... he's a man with a plan for our country. An end-of-life plan....

The Conscience Of A Restorationist
As a freedom-loving wealth-mongerer, you have an important restoration project to undertake. You have to do your part to help restore America to the free-market Constitutional republic it once was, and can be again. Our freedom to start a business, run an enterprise, build prosperity, protect ourselves, seek Divine grace, and pursue happiness depends on this project of American restoration....

Easing The Radical Transformation
You gotta hand it to the president: he's got that whole transparency thing going on, big time. He told us four years ago that, if elected, he'd radically transform the United States of America... and, boy howdy, has he ever! You can hardly recognize the place....

The Conscience Of A Restorationist, III

With the explosion of progressivism in America, every major institution that influences public opinion has been overrun by collectivist/statists, from the movie theater to the classroom. That means that your kids (along with the rest of us) are constantly bombarded with leftist messages. Every day, they hear that business is the problem and ever-bigger government is the solution. They are told all the time that anyone who opposes Barack Obama and the current statist government is a racist, a bigot, a homophobe, a sexist, and a greedy wealth-mongerer....

This Election Year's A Gas!
This week, the new numbers came out, and wow! The president's approval number is now 5.29.9, and gas is at 41%... of your life savings. And they've stopped putting a number on unemployment - the Bureau of Labored Statistics is simply calling it "dang near all y'all"....

The Conscience Of A Restorationist, IV

What's your project? You could do something related to the media, or you could start a business, or you could write a book. How about politics? Most of us never think of ourselves as "political" in our mindset (the progressives are much more into that)... but it's true that evil will flourish when good people do nothing. So some of us need to take on a project in politics, in order to aid the restoration of America. Here are some thought-starters....

The War On Women!

March 1st (or maybe it was February 29th... I don't remember exactly... sometime that week, anyway): A date which will live in INFAMY! In a sudden and deliberate attack by the empire of treacherous tea-partiers, Republicans, entrepreneurs, what have ya, Admiral Rush Limbaugh called a woman a bad name. The Demediacrat Coalition was quick to respond, though, with a targeted smart-bomb of rhetoric describing Limbaugh's gaffe as the first salvo in the Republican Party's WAR on women....

The Conscience Of A Restorationist, V

We must restore America, as founded. What project can you dream up and take on? How can you help the restoration? Educate yourself, then write a book. Teach a class at a local college. Start a business. Take on an entrepreneurial initiative within your existing business. Or work on restoring something we used to have in America and which would've come in handy when the progressives conducted their insidious campaign: journalism....

The Conscience Of A Restorationist, VI

What can you do? You might run for office or support a campaign, seeking to restore freedom to our nation's political process. You might write letters or start asking questions at public meetings, seeking to restore true "citizen journalism" as the watchdog for our freedoms. Or you could unleash your entrepreneurial spirit by doing the one thing Americans have always done better than anyone: start and run a business....

What Grinch Stole Dr. Seuss' Lorax?
Dr. Seuss has passed on. But he left to his niece, for her garden, a wonderful, magical piece. This piece for his niece was so magical that you would have to say anyone'd want this small statue. But now it is gone. Purloined from the lawn! The niece says the piece is now gone from the lawn....

The Conscience Of A Restorationist, VII

America's in the midst of a great ideological struggle - perhaps the most important such struggle since the Civil War. The very existence of America (at least as founded) is at stake. On one side are "progressive" statists, masters of divisive politics, who seek to centralize control over American life within a powerful authoritarian government. Their only opposition is found among those who seek to restore America to limited government and a free-market, opportunity-based society....

The Conscience Of A Restorationist, VIII
There's room for thousands of personal restoration projects in our education system. What's yours? You may be able to take on a big project, or yours might be modest... but no project is too small for such an important restoration. The future of our country literally depends on it....

I Know: You Should Start A Business!
I bumped into an old buddy in cyberspace the other day, and we met for a quick drink to catch up. He had decided to start a business, possibly because there has always been something seriously wrong with the guy, so of course I wanted to hear all about it. We met at a little watering hole next-door to his business (a little downtown coffee shop)....

The Conscience Of A Restorationist, IX

We're not black or white, or hispanic... we're Americans. We're not men or women... we're Americans. We're not rich or poor... we're Americans. We’re not old or young… we’re Americans. We're supposed to be ONE nation, under God. We must hang together, or we'll be divided, and conquered. Whatever other restoration projects you take on - however you help restore our limited-government, free-market republic - make sure your values and behaviors bolster American unity. We value diversity in America, sure, but that doesn't mean we don't value unity. Unity is the foundation of our republic. Always has been, and always (as long as we can keep our republic) will be....

Yellow Journalists Go Red, But Feel Blue

Obviously the only way to keep America safe and free is to gut as much of its citizens' strength and liberty as we can get away with, and the president and his Demediacrat coalition have been sprinting away with great chunks of both for three years. Running like they stole something - which they did! But now, when she needs it most, the government must step in to help one of its biggest allies. I'm referring, of course, to the New York Times....

The Conscience Of A Restorationist, X

There are lots of projects you could take on to do your part in the great restoration of America. You could run for the school board. You could start a business. You could become a citizen journalist, a citizen educator, or a citizen candidate for office. You should pick something that's a good match with your own talents and skills. But whatever else you choose, it's not a bad idea to be a good neighbor....

Twice The Crime, In Half The Time!

As we learn daily in the national media, there's nothing wrong with America today that can't still be blamed on the guy who left the country in such a mess almost four years ago. You remember - when gas was around $1.90, unemployment was around four percent, and our national deficit was around $8 trillion. Look at any of these indicators, and it's easy to see why Demediacrats everywhere say Barack Obama is twice the president Bush was! And in half the time! Only hard-core capitalist pigs want that Bush mess back....

The Conscience Of A Restorationist, XI

This year, we face a monumental choice in America, with nothing less at stake than the very nature (and future) of our nation. Forget the parties. Forget the candidates. Forget all the hype you hear, because more than nine-tenths of it will come only from the minority's brain-ray machine. All you need to know is this: some want you to see yourself as a loser, and they'll be feeding your inner Victim whenever they get a chance. When you see that, make sure you vote for their opponents, no matter what else you see or hear....

Free '65 Haircut Sinks Romney's Campaign!
The point is that this Romney guy, aside from being a Republican and a churchgoer and a free-market businessman (all bad enough!), was caught possibly practicing unlicensed hairstyling...!

The Conscience Of A Restorationist, XII

I can't say I've always been an awesome American citizen. Like many people of my generation (especially those of us lucky enough to "come of age" during the Reagan administration), I had better things to do. I was working. I was starting and raising a family. I was getting on with my life, and I assumed our country's leaders had the situation under control. After all, the economy was booming, I could always get a better job, and the Cold War we'd all feared during my military service was over....

What Is "Truth," Anyway?
I know it's an election year, and there are a few million radicals out there (Tea Partiers, capitalists, right-wingers, Constitutional restorationists, Republicans, and people who own a business) who keep fanning the flames of discontent with their subversive facts, but come on. Let's all just calm down. Stop asking questions, and get back to loving Barack and chanting "Yes We Can!"...

The Conscience Of A Restorationist, XIII
Start a business, write a song, take on a project at work. Do something inspiring. Undertake your own American restoration project. Understand that you'll barely get away with it, if you do at all... but don't be scared. We've been barely getting away with it for more than two hundred years....

Don't Germs Have Rights, Too?

Bain Capital invests in companies, makes them leaner and more competitive, and more often than not, they "save" the companies in which they invest. It's fashionable to talk about how Bain "runs up the company's debt" before they start axing employees - and only some crazy tea partier would point out that's because Bain loans their clients money when others wouldn't. It's like the bank that was crazy enough to give you a mortgage - didn't they "run up your debt?" Usually, a company is lucky to be Bain's client - it would've died, but for Bain's intervention. But at what price? I mean, do you really have to lay off unproductive employees just because it saves the company? How cruel....

The Conscience Of A Restorationist, XIV

What happened to us, America? We built the strongest, most prosperous nation in the history of the world by being home to the hardest-working people in history. You used to hear so much about the American Work Ethic, about how people came to the United States, worked crazy-hard, built businesses and created opportunities for entire families and generations of new Americans. That work ethic now seems to be more a part of America's history than a key feature of the nation today....

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