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‘Dunkirk’ and the Battle of Ideas
Wars are battles of ideas, which is why ideas matter. This concept was brought home in the recently released movie, “Dunkirk” which I strongly urge you to see. The movie is based on real events, events...
View ArticleAffordable Food Security Act Passes Congress
Congress, in recognition of the national food crisis, has enacted the Affordable Food Security Act (AFSA), popularly known as “Foodcare”. The leaders of the Senate, the House of Representatives, key...
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I Told You So
I told you so. I am not gloating but I have been quite correct about Donald Trump in my prior articles. I wish it were not true, but he is living up to my early assessment of what his presidency would...
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Is Trump Irrelevant?
Those who had lauded the expansion of executive powers when Barack Obama was president perhaps now see the dangers of an imperial presidency with Donald Trump as president. It doesn’t matter if you are...
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Statues, Money, and Dead Politicians
When I was a child I became enamored of coins. I had inherited from my father a few large U.S. one cent copper coins dated from the early 1800s. In those days money was made from copper, silver, and...
View ArticleWhy You Should Ignore Economists
If economists are so smart, why are they always wrong? When I took Econ 101 and 102 as a young college student back in antediluvian times the textbook we were assigned was Paul Samuelson’s Economics:...
View ArticleTaxing The Rich And Other Follies
Even though I have said this before apparently no one was listening so I have to say it again* because every time a new tax reform bill is proposed, the same clichés are trotted out and most of them...
View ArticleBending the Knee
This is not about Game of Thrones, but rather our national anthem. In 2016 when 49er quarterback Colin Kaepernick bent his knee during the national anthem it was a protest of a black man against racial...
View ArticleHow Not To Teach Kids Math
I read a news article by a tenured university professor who asserted that the perception that whites are more math proficient than minorities perpetuates “white privilege” and discriminates against...
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Money: A Semi Fictional Fable
We have forgotten what money is. Money is easy to understand, but most people have no idea what it is. We all know that barter is an inefficient way to foster economic growth and money is a good thing...
View ArticleDear Ray Dalio: Wealth Inequality Is Not Our Biggest Issue
Ray Dalio, one of world’s richest men, recently published a think-piece on Linkedin entitled, “Our Biggest Economic, Social, and Political Issue” which, he writes, is wealth inequality: the disparity...
View ArticleA Year of Trump: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
A year has passed since Donald Trump became president. 365 days is enough time to assess his presidency and his accomplishments. On Inauguration Day, he promised that he would bring back jobs, borders,...
View ArticleMontecito Paean
It happened here, not somewhere else. This was the shocking thing about Montecito’s tragedy. It’s easy to watch disasters unfolding elsewhere and you think, “Oh, those poor people”. We’ve lived in...
View ArticleThe Campus Vanguard on the “Road To Serfdom”
A movement is taking over America’s colleges and universities that rejects classical norms of reason, logic, and scholarship. This anti-intellectual trend is a road to totalitarianism. What now passes...
View ArticlePresident Trump and His Personal Trade Deficit
The other day President Donald Trump tweeted, “The United States has an $800 billion Dollar Yearly Trade Deficit because of our ‘very stupid’ trade deals and policies. Our jobs and wealth are being...
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Trump’s War Against Us
President Donald Trump just opened the first salvo in a trade war by imposing tariffs (taxes) on steel (25%) and aluminum (10%). It won’t end well. Trump has a long-standing hostility to free trade. He...
View ArticleFake Rights Are Dismantling America
Your right to swing your fist ends at the tip of my nose. —numerous attributions. Everyone is demanding their “rights”. If the “rights” they demand take away my rights, are they “rights”? Being on...
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America Doesn’t Need a 5-Year Plan
Imagine my shock when I saw Steve Rattner on Fareed Zakaria’s GPS Sunday morning program claim that China’s form of “state capitalism” (rife with 5-year plans) was outperforming our comparatively...
View ArticleBernienomics
The danger of Bernienomics is that Bernie Sanders opened the door of respectability for socialism. In the past calling yourself a “socialist” was political suicide. His “democratic socialism” is not...
View ArticleThe World Will Be Less Interesting Without Anthony Bourdain
Anthony Bourdain’s Parts Unknown TV show was one of the best shows on TV. Bourdain’s lyrical musings on cities, countries, and people and their food brought us closer to the rest of humanity. I will...
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