This post is a revision and updating of one originally done March 7, 2012, on a former blog. June 28, 2010, I had done a…
Doolittle Memorial Update
Posted in National Defense
Commentary on the Facets of Life, Usually Based on Personal Experience, Data, and Logic.
Posted in National Defense
This post is a revision and updating of one originally done March 7, 2012, on a former blog. June 28, 2010, I had done a…
Posted in Politicians, and Politics
Introductory Comment This post is based largely on A Thinking Person’s Candidate published by me in an earlier blog on 1/24/2016, seven years ago. The…
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I remember seeing an Apple Macintosh computer on display somewhere in Columbia, SC, in 1984 or 1985 and being amazed at the point and click…
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Below are a couple of charts, thanks to this website, that make a strong case for ignoring long term market trends while investing, constantly and…
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I enjoy newsletter, Thoughts from the Frontline, by John Mauldin. For December 5th, he wrote about our widening wealth gap and the discontent of “elites”…
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…
Posted in Crime, Education, Government, Homelessness, Marriage and Family, and Responsibility
Calls to “defund” police departments sound unreasonable, but I understand some are saying that they don’t really want to remove all funding and shut down…
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Challenges and Handicaps A common current lament is about young men growing up without a strong and virtuous male presence in their lives. That certainly…
Posted in Taxes
In the 110 years since the Sixteenth Amendment authorized the personal income tax, we have created an expensive and burdensome monster with tentacles in our…