You have made enough money!!

Recently the President of the United States Barack Obama made a resounding statement in which he said: "I do think at a certain point you've made enough money." That statement while appealing to a certain sector of the population, is a rare and scary statement made by a man of such power. In fact it is a dangerous way of thinking. During a time where making money is hard to come by I definitely do not want to encourage those people who employ American Citizens that they should probably stop what they are doing, because "at a certain point you've made enough money."

Big Business owners and CEO's and those who have sold their companies to shareholders are those that the president are referring to. This is amazing to me. If you look back in history of our nation at when people like Gates and Buffett made most of their money, I bet you will find a correlation between that and employment in the United States. It is the richest in America that have ran successful businesses that employ Americans who need to work and work most of their lives until they retire late in life. If these rich Americans quit what they did these middle class Americans would be in major trouble. If these rich smart Americans gave up their jobs and let others do those jobs, those others might not be as good. Decisions that lead to layoffs could be made which will hurt those who are much poorer and working hard for a living on the floor level.

What is sad is that there are a lot of people in America who don't care and don't understand why this statement is dangerous for our nation's economy. Those some Americans probably support many of his anti-business policies. Those same Americans will be hurt by a policy that would have successful people to stop making money. And those same Americans might be so ignorant that they will not be able to look back and connect the dots. But they will love it when our welfare system is expanded even more to help them out.

Rich people, keep making money!

Books to read

I love reading! Now that might not seem crazy to you but to know me growing up it would sound a bit off edge. I never read growing up. I would read a newspaper article about my schools sporting events but rarely anything else. In fact I am embarrassed to say that I rarely read the required reading from high school classes. But now that I am a smarter or more intelligent person, I will let you know that I love reading. Here are some books that you should consider reading if you like or somewhat are interested in where I get many of my ideas and joy of our great country.

For starters lets begin with interesting readings that might contradict ideas we believe to be common sense.

More Liberty Means Less Government- Walter Williams
-This book is one of if not my favorites.
Liberty Versus the Tyranny of Socialism- Walter Williams
-This is much like the first book
-Both these books are a collection of his articles so there are plenty of places to stop reading and pick back up when most convenient.
Economic Facts and Fallacies- Thomas Sowell
-This is a very interesting book by a great writer.


After reading those books which should be interesting reads you might be open and would love to learn a bit about economics. Especially for you young people who are still considering a degree. Economics is needed and a great background for a future lawyers who might want to get into politics at some point.

Basic Economics- Thomas Sowell
Applied Economics-Thomas Sowell

You will learn all you have to know about economics from these two books. You won't be an economist but you will know whether you want to pursue further education. These books also do the best job of explaining a subject that most people believe is very confusing


For you who love history and want to learn more about our history and specifically an overview of our nation. These two books will go through our complete history and be like a survey of American History.

America: The Last Best Hope Volume I and II- William Bennett

For you who love specific history and more details of certain people or events read anything by the author David Macullough

Crazy Ideas

Keep in mind that some crazy ideas did not seem so crazy at one point in our history and some ideas that people had years ago would be deemed to be crazy today. In fact it was crazy to imagine a world without slavery just over 150 years ago. But we know today that with the cheapest of labor the southern states were still worse off than the northern states who mostly did not use slaves. Today we would think it crazy to think the U.S. should bring slavery back.

There is no guaranteed right to vote even though there is an amendment that gives women the right to vote. Early in our history it was crazy to think that women or that men without ownership of land should be allowed to vote. Today many believe it would be crazy to say that some should vote and not others. I don't know about that. Our founding fathers were very scared of the idea of democracy. George Washington, John Adams, and the founder of the Federalist Party, Alexander Hamilton all feared democracy because they doubted the intelligence of all the masses of American people. Of course we know this was the thinking while they were losing power to the Republicans lead by Thomas Jefferson who loved Democracy. But lets think about it today. Should a Middle school basketball coach and substitute teacher's vote count the same as Bill Gates' vote? I would argue probably not. And that is using me as an example much less the hundreds of thousands of drug addicts and alcoholics that can vote. Would it be a crazy idea to limit who can and cannot vote? Just a thought.

Finally, it could be considered crazy to revamp our education system and allow parents to take their children anywhere they want for school. I mean you would have schools doing everything they could to get those kids there and coaches would recruit athletes from other high schools and schools would recruit good students to their school so the school could get more money. It would be like a feeding frenzy! Crazy! And yet that would be much like our colleges today. You know the colleges that are ranked in the top of the world while our secondary education system is not even close to there. Crazy!!!

Are You Serious? Its a Commercial!!

Recently I keep hearing this debate over the controversy of a pro-life commercial that is being produced by Focus on the Family. Tim Tebow and his story of nearly being aborted is the message of the commercial. Only in the United States of hope I don't offend a liberal American is this a story. Yes once again liberal advocacy groups are trying everything they can to not have this commercial shown. Its against my freedom to choose. What freedom to choose? There is nothing in the Constitution about that. There isn't anything in the Constitution about freedom of speech being tampered with either EXCEPT for by congress. The Constitution limits congress' ability to restrict your speech and since the government has absolutely nothing to do with this commercial, only a ignorant historian or Constitutionalists would even bring that up.

CBS can show any commercial they want. I don't remember Focus on the Family coming out and complaining about alcohol commercials. And if A Christian advocacy group did come out about something like that, Outside the Lines and other news sources would not be covering the story. But since liberals feel offended I seriously have to hear about this "controversy".

Sometimes it makes you think that if our nation truly had an open discussion about Abortion that more people might be persuaded to be against it. Maybe these liberals are afraid of that.

Dwight Lewis and Racism

Most of you do not know who Dwight Lewis is and I did not either until 5 minutes ago. He is a writer in The Tennessean newspaper. He recently wrote an article saying that a black person still can not get a job coaching at the University of Tennessee. To be honest it is understandable that people would have these opinions due to the years of government supported racism and prejudice in our country (such as all other countries have experienced at one point). But why can we just not look at the situation itself and put previous feelings aside.

The University of Tennessee has had very few coaches in previous years. Johnny Majors, Philip Fulmer, Lane Kiffin, and now Derek Dooley. Tennessee thus can not be said to have a history of passing over blacks to be their coaches since they have only hired two people outside the Tennessee family in the past 30 some years or more. Most people will say that Mike Hamilton's Athletic Department Director position is on the line with this hiring. Do you think Mike Hamilton cares so little about his job that he would pass over a more highly qualified coach just because he was black when his job is on the line? I would assume he would hire the best possible candidate. Besides reports say he offered Lovie Smith the job. Last time I checked he was black. And he is far more qualified than Derek Dooley or Kippy Brown. But Dooley is more qualified than Brown.

We can accept the fact that Blacks play sports more than whites at the highest of levels. And I have written before about the reasons why. Many blacks pursue individual achievement due to family structures growing up more often than white people. They are not more selfish but they feel better about following individual accomplishment and not depending on others because they have had to do it all their life more often than white people (Divorce Rates, premarital birth rates, etc). Thus they pursue art (music) and basketball/football and they spend far more time working at it. They often play basketball till dark in the playground while whites are playing video games. I don't think the NBA or NFL or NCAA is racist. I think they understand how to run a business and thus recruit the better athletes. More times than not that is a black person. Whites choose occupations more often than not that allow people to work together and pursue occupations that are group oriented such as education, etc. Thus more are prepared to coach. In fact many white people are not as athletic and thus have to use coaching mentalities more often in order to have success against more athletic players. Thus their life prepares them for coaching and they don't even realize it.

Lets stop with the racism thing everytime a white person gets picked over a black person for a coaching job. It might have everything to do with performance and not color. Especially when the decision makers job is on the line. I would assume they would do everything they could to make the right choice.

What a Sad Day

Today the Senate voted 60-39 to pass an overhaul healthcare bill that can and will change healthcare for the worse in our country. This is the first time that such an overhaul has been passed in our nation. Medicare mostly affects older people, Medicaid mostly does poor people, but this will affect us all.

It is sad that the U.S. Legislative Branch can pass such an expensive bill that strengthens the power of government far beyond what the Constitution allows. Now nearly if not more than 70% of what government does in this country is unconstitutional. In other words illegal according to our highest order of law in this country (Constitution). This is a power grab that could put Democrats out of power come mid-term elections. They are hinging their bets on the hope that the population that is helped by this will always vote for them and thus when added with those who are already die hard democrats it could keep them in power for years to come. I'm hoping that an ignorant American population will be more intelligent than I believe and will oust them in less than one year from now.

At a time when Europe is moving towards traditional American ways of life(although a long ways to go) and away from the larger federal government controls of their nations, the United States led by the Obama Administration and his liberal friends are moving America towards what Europe has already discovered to be disasterous.

More details about the bill and what I and others who are far more intelligent than I am later.

Random Thougts

I have not blogged as often lately due to my distraction from the political landscape and my position as a head basketball coach which is time consuming and more fatiguing than I thought it would be.

I have read some interesting books of late though. One of these includes: Black Rednecks and White Liberals. The title is a bit misleading until you read the book. It is one of my favorite. I put off reading it due to the cover and title for a couple years. This proves don't judge a book by its cover. I"m reading a book about one of my favorite world leaders ever- Winston Churchill. I'm also reading a book full of letters written by our nation's founding fathers to their wives and friends. Its interesting being in the minds of some of the greatest people in our nation's history. If we all could read their letter we would all be better people and better writers.

I just read and deleted some "notes" that I had written a couple years ago on facebook when I first started the "blog" thing. I look back and realize how little I knew then, although I thought I knew a lot. I now know a lot. But I will only be successful if I can look back in a few years and read my current blog and realize I did not know a lot. (think about it).

The hardest thing to do is teach kids something that they don't learn as quickly as you learned it. We tend to judge people by our own achievements and strengths. If we judged people with our weaknesses in mind, oh how much we would love one another.

I thought John Wooden was wrong when he said he never spoke about winning and losing and only playing your best and if you do that then your always a winner. I always valued winning over everything. I hate losing. But so did John Wooden. He just viewed it from a different perspective. I coach a boys basketball team that has played about 10 games against teams that have starting lineups that average a combined 25 inches and 150 pounds in size advantage. That is like Bryan College against Duke every game. We have only played 2 games that our team could have a legit chance of winning if we had played our best. I now understand why John Wooden viewed it they way he did.