Hennessy’s View Has Moved to http://hennessysview.com
I’ll leave this site up, but everything here–and everything written after February 23, 2013–is available at http://hennessysview.com. Thanks, Bill Hennessy
Did Prostitutes In Business Suits Cost Ed Martin A Place On The Rules Committee?
You probably never heard of Lance Beshore of Joplin, MO. He’s been Missouri’s delegate to the Republican National Committee’s Rules Committee for 12 years. He’s runs the lobbying department of […]
Here’s The Dirty Little Secret About Teachers Nobody Is Telling You About
I know a teacher pretty well, and I know nasty little secrets she’s not telling. She sneaks out of bed at 4:45 every morning. No one else is up. No […]
Don’t Let Missouri’s Businesspeople Become Prostitutes in Business Suits
Why would the Missouri Chamber of Commerce want to expand Obamacare in Missouri? Short-sighted pursuit of money. The Missouri Chambermaids of Cronyism Here’s the simple truth: the Missouri Chamber of […]
How We Fool Ourselves With Numbers
Often, the best outcome seems less satisfying than alternatives. Daniel Kahneman is a psychologist who won a Nobel in economics for Prospect Theory, more commonly called Behavioral Economics. In his […]
Ed Martin’s Grit Overwhelms Establishment’s Power
In a blow to the old guard establishment, the Missouri Republican State Committee elected Ed Martin Jr. as its new party chairman. Roy Blunt and all six Republican members of […]
Our Tax Code: The Fustercluck From Which Everything Rancid Crawls
William F. Buckley proposed a simple tax reform in 1973. The language barrier that separates people like Buckley from that odd species we call Congress prevented his thoughts from finding […]
Congress Just Increased Deficits By $4 Trillion, And All I Got Was 2.9% Tax Increase
You’ll need a scorecard to keep up with the insanity in Washington this week. The Senate’s been a lost cause for a while, so let’s not even bother with the […]
It’s Time To End War On Weed
When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for conservatives to divorce themselves from superstitions they’ve embraced since the Progressive Movement of the 1920s and join the pantheon […]
How 2012 Might Have Been
Republican Presidential Primaries The Republican Primary season was already well underway. Before a single caucus or vote, though, we pretty much knew that Mitt Romney would win the nomination. He […]
This Is Why I Feel Sorry For Millennials
Doctor Viktor Frankl was a neurologist and psychologist psychiatrist in Vienna, Austria. He founded the third branch of Viennese psychological therapies, logotherapy. But his life changed drastically when Austria capitulated […]
