Christopher Draper

I was one of the nerdy types that tried to stay up and watch the landing on NASA TV shortly after midnight Central time.  It started out oka...

Let's take a break from big government and talk about losing wealth in another way. Ever see a flock of birds all take flight within a...

Historically, why have countries conquered other countries? Often, it was to enrich themselves. What if a government was already presiding...

When Illinois Governor Quinn or Chicago Mayor Emanuel try to get their workers to work more efficiently to cut costs once, which is what eve...

When ultra tight U.S. environmental regulations virtually stopped oil drilling here, what was supposed to help the environment actually hurt...

Last election, I thought the Democrats held the moral high ground. On the environment, for example. Then came Climategate. On taking care ...

I visited the county records office and asked this question. They are very nice people, by the way. The person helping me said the tax rat...

The current debt ceiling debate centers on one honorable goal: For every dollar of debt ceiling raised, they must also cut one dollar of sp...

If the nation defaults on its debt, interest rates go up and there will not be enough money to run the federal - and state - governments any...

Except at the end of a war, how often do you remember government being downsized? Almost without exception, government can only grow. A de...

On July 25, President Obama addressed the nation about the way he wants to raise the debt limit, which he described as a balanced approach c...

Kids these days! The phrase was usable in any past time period to indicate that they don't think like we do. But I don't disparage...

That's right, refuse to pay a larger portion of your taxes. And it's legal. With Gov Quin and the Illinois congress raising income t...

Illinois state income taxes just rose 40%. Quin raises my ire. He puts off the inevitable: Cutting the size of government. And he does t...

It is the holiday season of 2010 and the best-selling gifts are those that are "connected." The Internet has become woven into ou...

Reagan took the voters aside on TV and explained things. Like the progressive tax. This is the idea where taxes are progressively higher, ...

The problem with Obama is he was untested. He had less work experience than I would hire into the company where I work. And believe me, th...

Republicans want to keep the minimum wage low. They want to court big business. What pattern is emerging? They don't seem to care about ...

We know what happens with tax increases: Spending increases. It pushes the spending problem down the road a bit more. Only if we stop the...

By now, everybody has seen we cannot cut government programs to cut spending. The leaders don't even give the idea lip service, perhaps ...

When people spend half their wages paying taxes, it takes two people to make what one person without takes would have taken home. Is it any ...

They used to say that we worked for the government every year from January 1 to the middle of May, around 135 days. During those days, ever...

Government can't innovate. There certainly must be exceptions but they don't come to mind. The US Post Office faciitated easy, cheap...

Sometimes you hear extreme views on the radio talk shows and ask yourself "How can they believe that?" You see when an internatio...

This site talks about BIG government. Here's what we're talking about, Government, from Wikipedia, made as large as humanly possibl...

"GISS On Track For Hottest Year Yet" reported by www.icecap.us and stevengoddard.wordpress.com today. Check out the blink compar...

Because stories like this still exist. Until government stops throwing around its weight without the scientific basis to back it up, there ...

The Muir Russell inquiry, which Muir Russell himself kept a distance from with a clothspin on his nose, found "the rigour and honesty [...

What an ideal environment for a writer! The other side never concedes a point, never gives in. You can keep reviving the same arguments in ...

BP has recently caused a couple of stirs. 1 - They had the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and 2 - they lobbied for the release of the Loc...

When it comes to scientific use of statistics, Odds Are It's Wrong . Science News wrote a great expose of the problem when statistics ar...

Climategate taught many of us that government-funded science is government funded corruption. It was true all along, check Michael Crichton...

Is global warming real? Michael Crichton of Hollywood fame (co-wrote Jurassic Park, The Andromeda Strain, Coma, Westworld, Twister, Congo, S...

Similarities: Both promote an alternate lifestyle, simplifying, shunning the trappings of modern society. Both are idealists with a vision...

The danger of the gulf oil spill is not lack of supply at the local gas station. It does not appear to be an environmental disaster. What ...

A tax on immoral or unseemly purchases is a sin tax. This includes alcohol, tobacco and a few other things. The advantage of pushing throu...

Answer: Because large scale government funding only comes about if there is an urgent crisis to be dealt with. If they open the debate to ...

This has got to be the slowest, most painful death possible for the Warmists. If the mainstream media had just reported on the global warmin...

I'm kind of a green guy myself. I erected a couple of 1KW wind generators on my property with a few 50W solar panels on a rooftop. I did...

Scientistst should not pout that they lack the compelling charm of a television spokesperson when raising the alarm about global warming. Th...

The Center for Disease Control was set up to understand and control the causes of sickness. One measure of whether a government agency has g...

I've been a big fan of NASA all my life, but I know an overblown bureaucracy when I smell one. My Taxes pay for this scientist and I don...