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The Men in My Life
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Creation of a Monster
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The Less Fortunate and the More Fortunate
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Harry Truman, Humble Public Servant
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Color TV’s, Inflation, and Government Spending
Government Financial Data
Prisoners of our Cars
Helping the Poor and Everybody Else
Pistol Creek Days
Good GDP, Bad GDP, Zero GDP
American History Required Reading – The Boys in the Boat
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Death Panel Op-Ed in Today’s New York Times (11/15/2009)
Urinary Tract Infections and Medicare Waste (11/16/2009)
Fishy Global Warming Story
Labeling and Limiting Ourselves and Others
Irrational Government Meddling: Stop It!
“Cost” of Health Care: Biggest & Ugliest Elephant in the Room
The Innovator’s Prescription by Clayton Christensen – Good Health Care Read
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The Decade of Our Discontent
Writing History – Trump and the Civil War
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Public Option – Creeping Coverage – POCC
International Trade: The Boot is Killing Us
A Blue Collar State of Mind
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Obamacare Replacement Act
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To Profit or Not to Profit
Measuring Unemployment
I Could Have Been a Lobbyist
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You Didn’t Create That Job!
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At Least One Fatal Flaw (In the ACA)
Republican Party, RIP
The Birth and Failure of “Obamacare”
Boosting Buffett’s Bill (Original 8/31/2011, Updated 10/10/2016)
Beer and Taxes – 10/22/2014
Government Dairy Products, Inc. (11/7/2010)
Banked, Unbanked, and Deplorable vs. Deplorables (12/15/2009)
Federal, State, and Cigarette Taxes
Abraham Lincoln, Gary Johnson, and Libertarianism
Very Helpful US History Book
Little Switzerland vs. Big USA
Hard Times (November 30, 2011)
Immigration Shaping Up As One of Three Big Issues
Some Thoughts About George F. Babbitt (June 19, 2015)
Irish Vacation Report – Photos at Link Below (9/14/2009)
Christian Walls and Bridges (February 22, 2016)
Easy Money, Pretentiousness, and Inequality: A Theory (December 30, 2013)
Equal Pay for Equal Work (February 4, 2015)
Spain’s History of Tyranny, Tolerance, Tribute, and Territorial Struggles
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Education in America (Well, Tennessee Anyway) – 100 Years Ago (May 12, 2010)
Dillard L. Williams and the Confederate Flag (March 30, 2010)
Buy a House to Make a Home
No Satisfaction? (1/4/2013)
Pushy Atheists and Weak Christians (10/19/2010)
Crime, Guns, and Lead (February 2, 2013)
Feral Cats, Hardwood Floors, Guns, or Butter (6/12/2011)
Quality, System Dynamics, Romney, Trump, and Clinton
Estate Tax Considerations and Maybe a New Idea (12/10/2010)
Excise Taxes, Lobbying, and Our Future
Looking For a Few “Diverse People” (9/26/2010)
Language, Culture, and Mosque Difficulties (8/16/2010)
Getting to the Bottom of Things: Universal Toilet Paper (First Published 4/27/2011)
Universal Food Stamps: Next Big Thing (Originally Published 10/2/2009)
Universal Basic Income: Next Big Thing
False Hopes and Student Loan Sharks (Updated from 6/5/2010 Post)
Married Filing Jointly

Permanent Fixes

Commentary on the Facets of Life, Usually Based on Personal Experience, Data, and Logic.