One of my beliefs that has changed since I first got elected is that I don’t believe government does a good job being charitable. There’s just too much mischief that takes place when strangers get to spend strangers’ money. Davy Crockett approached it from a different angle to come to the same conclusion over […]

I’ve come to believe that people helping people is a much more effective way to cure our society’s ills than people taxing people, creating large inefficient bureaucracies, then using what’s left to pay people to help people.
Now comes a study that says people who give are happier.
Need somebody to give to? I talked to some […]

From: The Life of Colonel David Crockett, by Edward S. Ellis (Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1884)
Crockett was then the lion of Washington. I was a great admirer of his character, and, having several friends who were intimate with him, I found no difficulty in making his acquaintance. I was fascinated with him, and he […]