(First published 4/29/2012) US Ambassador to Germany was not exactly a plum position in 1933, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt had to get to his…
Erik Larson’s In the Garden of Beasts
Posted in Books, Freedom, and Government
Author: skepticalobserver
This was originally posted May 20, 2013 under a different title in response to the worshipful attitude many citizens seemed to have toward President Obama.…
Originally published 9/20/2013 as “Apple, Elegant Design, and the Affordable Care Act” There is an inspiring and exciting, at least to folks like me, Marco…
Paul Allen, No. 26
Posted in Books, Business, Equality and Inequality, and Wealth
Originally Posted 11/09/2013 Paul Allen, according to Forbes Magazine, had $15.8B and was the 26th richest US citizen as of April 2013. Concern about the…
Harry Truman, Humble Public Servant
Posted in Books, and Politicians
If you are of my general age, you are going to love “Harry Truman’s Excellent Adventure” by Matthew Algeo. If you are a lot younger…
Following now abandoned discussion about removing his image from the ten-dollar bill, Alexander Hamilton, thanks to the eponymous hit musical, is vying for focus of…
First Published in 2010 in Earlier Permanent Fixes Blog on Blogger. In the fall of 1963, Sigma Chapter of Sigma Nu Fraternity at Vanderbilt University…
Government Financial Data
Posted in Economics, and Government
My source for data on federal, state, and local government spending is almost always the Bureau of Economic Affairs National Income and Product Accounts. I…