Paineful Truth

Do you know what’s best for you? Do you know what you need, what you can live without, etc.? Of course you do! Deep down each human desires individual autonomy.   Now, since you know what’s best for yourself, does that mean you know what’s best for everyone else? Obviously not! This is patently ridiculous. The different upbringings, life choices, situations, and a million other variables in a lifetime create so many differences, there’s no practical way to calculate with all of them in mind. Allow me to extend this logic to the healthcare debate. Do you know what kind of healthcare you need/want? Do you know what kind of healthcare your neighbor wants? What about a movie star in Hollywood? Or a farmer in Tennessee? Let’s take it one step further. Do we honestly expect 535 random people in Washington D.C. to understand what 321,000,000 people need when it comes to healthcare? The idea that a bunch of politicians can sit around, think really, really hard, and somehow come up w

The media was salivating non-stop leading up to James Comey’s testimony before Congress this week. And it has been the front and center story ever since. Over 3 hours of testimony is rather hard to summarize, however it’s safe to say that it was not the knockout punch against Trump that the media and Democrats were hoping for. In fact, Comey had several rather damning things to say regarding Hillary Clinton, Obama, and Loretta Lynch regarding the Clinton email scandal (which were conveniently, for the most part, glossed over). This circus surrounding the Comey hearings ( CNN had a countdown clock to the event) caused other news stories to fall out of the news cycle faster than they might have otherwise. Old News One such story was the June 3rd London Bridge terror attacks. The attack came less than a month after the Manchester bombing , which came exactly a month after the Westminster attacks . These 3 horrible events all had one thing in common - they were per

Donald Trump has finally done it. Now 2 major campaign promises can be checked off the list. He may have missed the 100 day deadline, however, it’s done. America is now officially out of the Paris Climate Accords. Cue the Panic America has developed a poisonous mindset. It goes something like this - if the government doesn’t do something, the world will end. I’ve got some news for the Washington-dependent masses: “saving the climate” is not the government’s job. For a moment, let’s just assume that the climate is changing ( which it is ). Let’s just assume that man is the cause (which he may or may not be ). Let’s just assume that if we don’t do something, the world’s coastlines will be underwater in a matter of years because of the melting of ice-caps ( umm...yeah, maybe not ). Let’s just assume, for the sake of argument, all this stuff is true. Now what? Government is Here to Save the Day! The Paris Climate Change Agreement was 195 governments coming together, making a