Charles Hillestad is a full-time lawyer but has been writing and lecturing for years. He has published articles in numerous newspapers and is an avid reader. He lives in Oregon with his wife with whom he has developed three award-winning Bed and Breakfast hotels.

Blog Entries by Charles Hillestad

The Bail Out Boondoggle

Posted July 25, 2008 | 11:36 AM (EST)


Shouldn't some significant portion of the massive bailout taxpayers are handing the incompetent company officials who recklessly got us in this mortgage mess be used instead to hire more regulators to insure we don't keeping throwing Treasury money away like this every few years? Shouldn't a few of those who...

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Why Not Socialized Medicine?

Posted July 14, 2008 | 11:37 AM (EST)


Like the Bogey Man, those two words, socialized medicine, are continually trotted out to frighten Americans, who want health care but are afraid of turning into communists if they don't bankrupt themselves to get it. In case you have forgotten in all the frenetic hype and hyperbole over the past...

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