The university system in this country has become a gathering of pompous elites in many cases (there are some exceptions). They have created an aura of financial success that has motivated the young and their parents to accept penurious conditions in the hopes of bettering their future generations. This has obviously gotten out of hand which even President Biden has admitted by his actions last week.

By Jim Thompson
HCP columnist

This new bill puts in place price controls for some Medicare-provided drugs. The last administration to gloriously fail at price controls was Richard Nixon’s, when he put price controls on everything, causing years of shortages and a decade of serious inflation. Politicians who think the government can fix anything, irrationally think price controls work. Price controls never work and when finally loosed, create unbelievable inflation.

The leading respondent for our request for help on this current project is in Ukraine. Never mind the war, he needs to earn a living. He proposed a sample of his work for a small fee, then we could negotiate. His sample was very good, so we got down to negotiating his fee for the entire project. He was a very tough negotiator. Forget that bombs are falling all around him, he knows the value of the quality of his work, and he wouldn’t budge.

We are told we must get to net zero (carbon dioxide emissions) as soon as possible. OK, so what happens after that? Are all the scientists, engineers, managers and so forth that have put the effort in to getting us there going to go home? Highly doubtful.

In the 1980s, I read of the interview of a long-lived thespian who had recently died. The interviewer asked him what the most astounding change in the theater was in his lifetime. Without missing a beat, he said, “electricity.” Now society has accused the generation of electricity for causing climate change and proposes to fix that problem with beer-can-esque generating devices covering once fertile farm fields. It never ends.

Over the last 108 years, humankind has developed the attitude that life is very cheap. I pick 108 years, for that takes us back to the summer of 1914, when, right about now in that year, the Great War, later called World War I, was just about to start.

We are in delicate times, folks. A little slip one way or another in a myriad of important categories can cause significant problems. I am not reminded of the Jimmy Carter era of the 1970s, but, sadly, the 1930s.

It has been a momentous term at the U.S. Supreme Court. It seems that the closer we have gotten to the end of the term (usually the end of June), the more momentous it has become.

Equity vs. Equality. Per Google: “Equality means each individual or group of people is given the same resources or opportunities. Equity recognizes that each person has different circumstances and allocates the exact resources and opportunities needed to reach an equal outcome.” In other words, communism.

Should Janet Yellen resign? Absolutely – and she should be followed by a parade of others who make a joke of the serious jobs needing done in Washington. Their bridges have fallen down.

The progressive liberals have almost pulled off stealing the United States. While we still have elections, we must be certain that we elect people who love this country and are not out to extract its good for their personal benefit or the benefit of their malevolent ideas.

These issues are not about guns nor forceps; they are about society’s degraded morals and civility. And they are more (uncomfortably) related to each other than most dare to think.

Doing some research last week, I came across a remarkable piece of history I either didn’t know or had forgotten (sometimes it is hard to tell these days). It is worth sharing. In 1947, President Harry Truman appointed the Hoover Commission. The Hoover Commission was headed by former President Herbert Hoover – a Republican – who had lost the election of 1932 to Franklin Roosevelt, Truman’s predecessor.

At the conclusion of the press conference, the administration praised the work of Dr. Slouchi and IGAG, and reported, “Now you know why we have seemed to behave so strangely for the last year and a half. We were looking out for you and protecting you from worry.”