Friday, September 25th, 2015
What is it that puzzles New York about Trump’s enormous appeal? He does what so many of us desperately want. He takes no guff from the loathsome talking heads who have never baited a hook or worried about a mortgage payment or been bankrupted by the confluence of Wall Street and Pennsylvania Avenue. He doesn’t
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2015
Face it, you probably love one and hate the other. You probably think one is a rare voice of common sense while the other is a crazed lunatic. Or maybe you fancy yourself a ‘moderate,’ but if...
Wednesday, July 29th, 2015
For many years I have lived in dread of having to answer The Question. Curiously, no one has asked it. At first I wondered if I had an ego problem. Did I feel bruised to learn that...
Friday, July 3rd, 2015
Mr. Greece really likes taking care of his family. Some of his cousins and his older relatives struggle to find work, others don’t like to work, and plenty see themselves as “too old” to work. So Mr....
Saturday, May 16th, 2015
I’m still hopping mad about the US Government’s bagpipe crackdown. The international piping scene is basically Scotland, Canada and the north-eastern US. On the Atlantic seaboard, it’s a cross-border community. Yet since the end of June the...
Tuesday, April 28th, 2015
As we get closer to the 2016 election year, US citizens must remember that they cannot trust Hillary Clinton to create American jobs. The last time she had a meaningful job, she outsourced it to Monica Lewinsky....
Tuesday, April 14th, 2015
In a sense, the entire system of taxation is a form of involuntary servitude. Take, in particular, the income tax. The high levels of income tax mean that all of us work a large part of the...
Tuesday, April 14th, 2015
In 1917, H.L. Mencken wrote an article to commemorate the invention of the bathtub by Adam Thompson in 1840. Thompson lived in Ohio at the time, and his invention was the talk of the town. But not...
Monday, April 6th, 2015
Most of the time, on most subjects, Rebublicans are quite reasonable. But sometimes on some matters they are quite insane. Case in point: There is a deal on the table with Iran in which: Iran will give...
Tuesday, January 13th, 2015
Economist Martin Armstrong warns that the twin attacks in France will be used by world leaders to push for restrictions on Internet privacy and the total elimination of encrypted communications. Armstrong, who correctly predicted the 1987 Black...
Wednesday, December 31st, 2014
A boy named Chuck bought a horse from a farmer for $250. The farmer agree to deliver the horse the next day. The next day the farmer drove up to Chuck’s house and said, “Sorry son, but...
Sunday, December 7th, 2014
The day after Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt stood before congress to ask for a declaration of war against Japan. He got it. Ex-President Herbert Hoover, said, “We have only one job to do now, and that...
Friday, November 7th, 2014
Most people consider ‘government’ to be an institution of social service. That’s why people elected to government are called civil ‘servants.’ Others regard it as an organization for achieving the highest goals of mankind, a system to...
Friday, November 7th, 2014
Well, well, it looks like the tin foil hats were on to something after all. If you thought people who talked about the government recording phone calls and reading emails were just being paranoid, the recent revelations...
Thursday, November 6th, 2014
Forget about the Conservative, Liberal pigeonhole stereotypes. Opinions vary across issues, there are Liberals who are against abortion and there are Conservatives who are against war. The idea that there are two monolithic “sides” to choose from...
