In Peggy Noonan’s “A Certain Idea of America,” a sentence in an essay on the American Dream caught my attention: “The original sin of America,…
The Regrettable One Drop Rule
Posted in Books, Government, and Race
Category: Books
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…
I Liked and Like Ike
Posted in Books, and Government
Published first a few years ago in an earlier blog. Dwight David (Ike) Eisenhower was the president of my youth, age 10 to 18 approximately,…
Erik Larson’s In the Garden of Beasts
Posted in Books, Freedom, and Government
(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…
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…
This is just an experiment, posting screen shots of a post in my abandoned Google Permanentfixes Blog. I have been slowly deleting or updating and…
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…
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…
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…