On Saturday, January 23, 2010, Laura and I were blessed with a second wonderful son.  Elias James Wilkinson was born with a weight of 8lb 10oz, and was 21 3/4 inches in length. Laura and her best friend Joyce both entered the hospital on Friday. The next day, Joyce gave birth to a beautiful baby [...]

So for those of you who aren’t yet aware, Laura and I are due to have another son in January!  Laura’s dad arranged an ultrasound for us at his work on August 21, and the images we saw were incredible.  Visually experiencing the development of my son inside the womb was one of the great [...]

Over a month ago Hank Paulson and Ben Bernanke said that we should be really scared because credit was going to completely and immediately dry up, making it impossible for thousands of small businesses to get loans and make payrolls.  They also claimed that the commercial paper market was in major trouble. Just recently the [...]

I found some great photos of the sun at The Boston Globe.  Catch a few of the great pictures courtesy of the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory SOHO (ESA & NASA).

Karl Marx, on page 243 of his infamous book The Communist Manifesto, states that the “proletariat will use its supremacy to wrest, by degrees, all capital from the bourgeoisie, to centralize all instruments of production in the hands of the State.” He then states that “the following will be pretty generally applicable: Abolition of property [...]

When the government proposes to fix our economic woes by intervening in credit markets, A little perspective on what is not seen is in order from Frederic Bastiat, who wrote the the essay What Is Seen and What Is Not Seen over 150 yeas ago. A few choice paragraphs follow: However, the credit organizations would [...]

In light of the looming socialism our country faces as a result of politicians ‘fixing’ our financial crisis, I thought I would post one of my favorite poems: One From One Leaves Two – By Ogden Nash Higgledy piggledy, my black hen, She lays eggs for gentlemen. Gentlemen come every day To count what my [...]

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