The Federal Income Tax was established in 1913 by the 16th Amendment to the Constitution, but it was not until 1930 that the Supreme Court…
Married Filing Jointly
Posted in Culture and Diversity, and Marriage and Family
Author: skepticalobserver
Buckets and Trash Cans
Posted in Personal Stuff
Reference to “bucket lists,” lists of things a person wants to do before dying, seem to be trending these days, especially for any of us…
Richard John Neuhaus: Liberal Lutheran to Conservative Catholic (4/15/2015)
Posted in Books, Church and State, Culture and Diversity, and Faith and Church
A new biography, Richard John Neuhaus: A Life in the Public Square by Randy Boyagoda, does quadruple duty. It provides a well-researched and documented critical look at…
Channel surfing while on the elliptical machine in the gym yesterday I ran across a panel discussion from David Axelrod’s University of Chicago Institute of…
(First posted in 2010 when the PC movement was more of a curiosity than a religion.) A few months ago I attended a funeral at…
Sunday afternoon about four o’clock I took a pretty bad crash when the front wheel of my recumbent bike went into the open space under…