Sparks Commentary

Part history, part politics, and part random other stuff.

Thursday, December 27, 2012

Going to church in a foreign language

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"We would … hope that every missionary learning a new … language would master it in every way possible. … And as you do so, your [tea...
Monday, November 12, 2012

The American Veteran

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The picture is of my Marine grandfather (1921-2011), who saw  intense combat in the Pacific  in  World War II . He never had loss of li...
Friday, August 10, 2012

Obama's admissions to broken promises

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I was just reading the text of Obama’s Inaugural Address of three years ago, and it’s interesting to compare some of its text with that of h...
Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Debunking the myth of Obamacare making healthcare cheaper

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Our healthcare is about to cost a lot more, thanks to the new taxes in Mr. Obama’s bill. (The bill was passed a while back, but it doesn’t...
Saturday, July 14, 2012

Why I am against a minimum wage (or a maximum legal price for healthcare)

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It seems like the most charitable of things to do: to legally set a minimum level of earnings for workers, or a maximum price of healthcar...
Thursday, July 5, 2012

Obama on maximum healthcare prices and minimum wages

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Obama favors both a maximum price for healthcare and a minimum wage for labor. The evidence for his favoring a  maximum price  for healt...
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Jeffrey Sparks
By training, I am a business major with a concentration in marketing, and a certificate in economics. I originally wanted to do market research for businesses because I enjoyed the social science aspects of marketing, and I have studied psychology a little on my own; but I now wonder if this will ever be my field. I have also taken a fair amount of communications classes, because I thought about grad school in advertising or public relations (or even business & economic journalism), but I'm not sure I will ever do these things. (I'm glad I studied them just the same, though.) By inclination, I learn about a lot of other things in my spare time. For example, I am a history buff, an aspiring polyglot, an amateur linguist, a political philosopher (after a fashion), and a student of the Bible. Most of the things I study on my own these days have something to do with one of these subjects (or sometimes even more than one), and I write about many of them on my blog. So my actual profession is … you guessed it … a math tutor! Not what you'd expect, right? (Not what I would have expected, either … )
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