THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX By Dr. Charles Ormsby – June, 2010 There are no special workers’ rights. There are only human rights. Workers have them and so does everyone else. Seems simple, doesn’t it? Everyone has the same rights. Rights must be consistent. You can’t have a right that violates the rights of […]
THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX By: Dr. Chuck Ormsby – May, 2010 I used to be against an activist Supreme Court. I no longer am. I want an activist Supreme Court. I want the justices to do their job. Don’t just defend the Constitution (for a change), but begin to repair the damage that has accumulated […]
THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX By: Dr. Charles Ormsby – April, 2010 Message from Massachusetts voters, “Take your Gulag and shove it.” Yesterday I celebrated the first birthday of my third grandchild. My other two grandchildren are five and seven years old. They don’t know that their world changed today. One hour ago our Congress, with […]
THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX By: Dr. Charles Ormsby – February, 2010 It always amazes me how our Congress seemingly struggles to accomplish something as simple as “creating jobs.” Actually there is no need to create jobs. There are many more jobs than people. For example, just walk around your house. Are there no jobs to […]
Select Just One: Prohibited or Mandatory THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX, WITH CHUCK ORMSBY By: Dr. Charles Ormsby – January, 2010 “The trouble with government regulation of the market is that it prohibits capitalistic acts between consenting adults.” – Robert Nozick Are you tired of being a slave? What did you say? You’re not a […]
THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX By: Charles Ormsby – December 2009 It’s the holiday season and we should all be full of cheerfulness and goodwill towards our fellow citizens. Let’s raise a glass to our political foes and wish them well. Now is the time to put our political differences aside, embrace one another, […]
THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX By: Charles Ormsby – September, 2009 Having consulted with their constituents over the August recess, our elected representatives will be heading back to Washington fully intending to ignore what they were told. Their meetings with voters ranged from respectful (Niki Tsongas) to downright contemptuous (Barney Frank) to non-existent (John Tierney). Presumably, […]
The Cause, The Cure, and The Obstacles to Recovery Part I By: Charles Ormsby – May, 2009 TANSTAAFL: “There Ain’t No Such Thing As A Free Lunch!” – Anonymous When economic decisions are based on political considerations and not on rational economic calculations, wealth is squandered and the economic piper must be paid. It is […]
THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX Can you pass the conservative litmus test? part II Dr. Charles Ormsby – April, 2008 Are you a conservative? Can you pass the conservative litmus test? Part II Last month we established a political foundation for Conservatives in the form of four core principles (the basic Conservative litmus […]
By: Tom Duggan – April 2008 NORTH ANDOVER – Several North Andover Middle School students are being investigated by the North Andover police for personal profiles posted on the America On Line Internet service threatening to harm fellow students and naming at least one teacher and a classmate the student pledges to “kill.” These threats […]
By: Ralph Wilbur – December, 2007 In the late 1960’s, North Andover was one of the first communities to wholeheartedly adopt the then current fad for “open classroom” teaching. A new high school was constructed without internal partitioning walls and the result was noise, constant distractions and educational bedlam. Generations of North Andover […]
THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX By: Dr. Charles Ormsby – September 05, 2007 In our July edition, I wrote an article entitled “Snookered” that analyzed a highly questionable pro-override campaign postcard distributed by North Andover United (NAU) just days before our recent override vote (See figure below). The group’s postcard cited home sales statistics for […]
PAYING ATTENTION! WITH TOM DUGGAN By Tom Duggan, February, 2007 Maybe the North Andover School Committee really isn’t incompetent. Perhaps it is completely capable of running the schools efficiently and just refuses to do so. Whatever the case, an education audit released last month on the condition of the North Andover school system showed that […]
September, 2006 At North Andover’s June 5th Annual Town meeting, the School Committee threatened to cut 23 classroom teachers if its budget was reduced from its original request to the “To Be Balanced” amount, despite an earlier presentation by members Ormsby, Kelly, and parent Diana Headrick showing that these cuts could be avoided by accepting […]
Perry and Company Engage in Personal Attacks, Makes Lawrence Look Like Geniuses Paying Attention With Tom Duggan By Tom Duggan – August 9, 2006 So you thought the Lawrence School Committee was a joke? Well, last night the North Andover School Committee made the Lawrence School Committee look like educational geniuses as their meeting […]