Two years ago I posted what I considered Vital Signs for the long term economic health of the US. It focused on total outgo vs.…
Vital Signs Updated
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Commentary on the Facets of Life, Usually Based on Personal Experience, Data, and Logic.
Posted in Economics
Two years ago I posted what I considered Vital Signs for the long term economic health of the US. It focused on total outgo vs.…
Posted in Economics, Government, and National Debt
Having been facing some medical issues for the past couple of years, I am very familiar with the declaration, “I’m going to check your vitals.”…
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Tonsillectomies I have clear memories of having my tonsils removed at age 5 or 6 in the 1940’s. It was standard procedure for children at…
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This post is a revision and updating of one originally done March 7, 2012, on a former blog. June 28, 2010, I had done a…
Posted in Politicians, and Politics
Introductory Comment This post is based largely on A Thinking Person’s Candidate published by me in an earlier blog on 1/24/2016, seven years ago. The…
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I remember seeing an Apple Macintosh computer on display somewhere in Columbia, SC, in 1984 or 1985 and being amazed at the point and click…
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Below are a couple of charts, thanks to this website, that make a strong case for ignoring long term market trends while investing, constantly and…
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I enjoy newsletter, Thoughts from the Frontline, by John Mauldin. For December 5th, he wrote about our widening wealth gap and the discontent of “elites”…
I don’t have any evidence that Roger Williams ever had influenza, and, as far as I know, the only connection between the virus and Pastor…
Posted in Crime, Education, Government, Homelessness, Marriage and Family, and Responsibility
Calls to “defund” police departments sound unreasonable, but I understand some are saying that they don’t really want to remove all funding and shut down…