This was first posted on my old blog in September, 2014. I was reminded of it by this news item of a non-fatal shooting at…
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The Decade of Our Discontent
Posted in Economics, and Government
The announcement a few days ago of real % increase in GDP for the first quarter of only 0.7% suggested it might be time to…
This is an interesting hot news item of the day, just one example of the coverage in the clip above, about President Trump’s musings on…
Why So Quiet?
Posted in Politics
I see there are very few new posts on this blog since the November election of Donald Trump. And this in spite of the fact…
Public Option – Creeping Coverage – POCC
Posted in Health Care, and Health Insurance
(With apologies to blog post subscribers because I mistakenly “Published” a work in progress that had some old data.) It is very difficult to get…
It can make a person feel really old to find that a common word of his youth is now classified as archaic. That is what…
I didn’t vote for Donald Trump for POTUS (or for Hillary Clinton), but I understand exactly why so many did and why he won the…
Skeptical of Government?
Posted in Government, and Investing
The December 4th Charleston SC Post and Courier included a rather lengthy story, by David Slade (Facebook), describing mismanagement of state employee pension funds over…
Syria Following US Example?
Posted in Civil War
The news from Aleppo makes me wonder how different our own history might have been if Lincoln had just said to the six deep south…
I seldom agree with Leonard Pitts, but today he has a good suggestion. He is very upset about the election of Donald Trump and lists…