MATH MY WAY

Wm F. Buckley Jr. suggested that the responsibility of thinking man is to make distinctions. Math my way suggests that only by noting distinctions do we reach truth or expose lies.

14,000 gay soldiers over 18 years supposedly have been 'kicked out' of the military. That's approx. 800 a year. The math, however, does not tell you that many of these men and women chose to opt out by 'revealing' their sexual orientation in order to avoid serving in a war zone or for some other cause.

An Illinois wind turbine farm costs 200 million and will create 12 permanent jobs and 100 temporary construction jobs. You do the math and weep.

My kind of math centers around creating wealth and a better life. Antitrust does nothing but give the government the legal authority to punish success. So-called robber barons of the last century like Rockefeller and Carnegie reduced the prices of oil and steel each year and ushered in the industrial revolution with more and better products - hardly a monopoly. A higher standard of living is irrelevant to socialists and bashers of big business. Competition in a capitalistic society usually sorts itself out in the market place. Government just gums up the works with antitrust regulations and punishments. Listen to our big O if you want to hear how negativity and fuzzy math sound.