One of the things I remember about grammar school days (1950’s) was how good a slice of white bread smeared with butter tasted in the…
Government Dairy Products, Inc. (11/7/2010)
Posted in Business, and Government
Author: skepticalobserver
Note: This is an update of an older post from my Blog. The thing that reminded me of it was Mrs. Clintons “nouning” of the…
Federal, State, and Cigarette Taxes
Posted in Taxes
In December 2015 The State editor Cindi Ross Scoppe published an editorial boosting the idea of a significant increase in the South Carolina tax on…
Abraham Lincoln, Gary Johnson, and Libertarianism
Posted in Civil War, Government, Libertarianism, and Politics
I’m thinking of the libertarian political philosophy in connection with Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson’s failure to respond quickly and appropriately to a question about…
I am enjoying America’s Forgotten History, Part II, by Mark David Ledbetter. It is self published and available on Amazon Kindle for $1.50. Of course…
Little Switzerland vs. Big USA
Posted in Culture and Diversity, National Defense, and Travel
A news item about Switzerland denying citizenship to two Muslim girls who refused to take school-required swimming lessons because there would be boys in the…
Hard Times (November 30, 2011)
Posted in Books, Climate, Government, and Poverty
When I started reading The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan, I did a quick search on “Dust Bowl” for a little background information on the subject…
Once we get past the major peripheral presidential campaign issues currently dominating social and left and right wing media, there are three subjects that deserve…
My memory is not what it used to be and never was that good, so, when a FB friend asked if I have read Babbitt…
If you trace your ancestry to Ireland, Scotland, England, or France or if you came from the Vikings or if you are Catholic or Episcopalian…