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HILL: Sticky Krispy Kreme inflation
We took our grandson to Krispy Kreme the other morning for the requisite grandparent bonding. He wanted a yellow one; a plain one and a chocolate one so we figured we could get a half-dozen […]
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HILL: Doing business with bad people
A lot is being made of top PGA golfers jumping to the LIV Tour for monumental amounts of money. It brings to mind conflicting thoughts: 1) Shouldn’t any American be free to make as money […]
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HILL: College football and universities: businesses or “non-profits?”
University presidents may not realize it yet but the debate about the realignment of college football conferences will force them have to deal with a question none of them wants to answer ― is a […]
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HILL: Administering medicine to the dead
Thomas Paine wrote in The American Crisis: “To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to […]
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HILL: Be an American socialist rather than seem like one
There is hardly anyone in America who is a true dyed-in-the-wool socialist. They may talk as if they believe America would be better off if it became socialist but very few actually act out their […]
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HILL: Budget dinosaurs
Ronald Reagan used to say “governments’ programs, once launched, never disappear.” The agencies running those programs are “the nearest thing to eternal life we’ll ever see on this earth” he would add which always generated […]
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HILL: Anatomy of a recession
Most people really don’t understand the fundamental mechanics of how recessions occur. Recessions occur just like economic booms occur ― they run on human emotion and reason, in both the negative and positive sense. When […]
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HILL: Free thought and competition of ideas
Freedom of expression and competition among a very few extraordinary people are at the heart of major advancements in human history. When both are allowed to flourish, everyone benefits. When either one, or both, are […]
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HILL: Want to love America? Go to Europe
Many young Americans are rose-colored glassy-eyed in love with European socialism. They should go to Europe. They will come back loving America more than John Wayne and Ronald Reagan. My wife and I recently returned […]
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HILL: The Roman Way to save America
The essence of being an American comes from the philosophies, the ethos, the literature and the history of the Roman Republic and Greek democracies dating back 2500 years. There’s no getting around those two basic […]