Word Twisting – Words Without Meaning
I’ve noticed word twisting this election season in ways that steal meaning from communication between two people. To a person who values words that have meaning and content rather than emotional...
View ArticleBucket Polls – Betting Against America
Obama leads all the foreign opinion poles of who should be President, by rather large margins. IMHO, this is pretty much prima facia evidence that Obama’s policies are best for everybody else except...
View ArticleLoss of Private Goods
I recently had a chance to read Economics: A Very Short Introduction, by Partha Dasgupta, published in 2007. Page 52-54 is a passage teaching the definition of private goods, public non-exclusable...
View ArticleMilitary Sabbatical Prototype: Reserve Duty
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Martin Dempsey has spoken publicly that perhaps the most senior 40 percent members of the armed forces should work outside the military, or even outside...
View ArticleMilitary Strategists and Physics Theories
Several weeks ago, I found myself in a discussion with military strategists about Schrödinger’s half dead cat . Then I came across Beyerchen’s description of Clausewitz as non-linear war, first...
View ArticleTrouble Today or Tomorrow
Thomas Paine wrote on December 23, 1776 in his first edition of “The Crisis”: A noted [man], who kept a tavern at Amboy, was standing at his door, with as pretty a child in his hand, about eight or...
View ArticleSurveillance Keeps Power in Power
You are monitored everywhere – license plates on passing cars, cameras on roads, shopping malls, gas stations, airports. It has begun to bother me, yet my friends advise “If you’re not doing anything...
View ArticleAnymore, We Don’t Value Our Citizens First
Anymore, it seems public figures and politicians are tripping over each other to highlight the need to care for illegal immigrants, or refugees of foreign wars, displaced individuals around the globe,...
View ArticleIRS Form 8965 Anathema and Socialism
Welcome to 2015. The graphic below is an IRS form 8965 “Health Coverage Exemptions”. Aside from the trite question of why we need 8,965 forms to file taxes, this hurts me for deeper reasons. Now, to...
View ArticlePursuing Stability in American Politics
Fractious parties seem to dominate American politics. I have a recommendation that would fix the problem but it would require a constitutional amendment. Reading a biography of Thomas Jefferson, it...
View ArticleAlternative Facts – Reverse Obligation
Issues and arguments entwined with consistency and facts can be productive. Everybody today is screaming for facts and truth, and accusing each other of alternate facts. If you ask for this from...
View ArticleWas that Insurance, Policy, Coverage, or Payment ?
Real story. October 2017. Samuel lives in Florida. He was laid off from his job, but was capable enough to start his own consulting business. That’s what he’s supposed to do in America. Strike out on...
View ArticleSaikat Chakrabarti Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
This is a story about a tech geek. Tired of working in Silicon Valley. Wanting to make a difference in the world. No different than me or many others. Continuing to work at a bright computer startup...
View ArticleExistence
AOC tweeted late last night, “In a time when ~60% of American workers make less than $40,000 a year, billionaires should not exit.” Pardon me, ma’am, but nobody has the right to say someone else should...
View ArticleA New Deal for Globalization
I came across “A New Deal for Globalization” by Kenneth Scheve and Matthew J. Slaughter (Foreign Affairs, Vol 86, Issue 4, July/August 2007). From the 3rd year of Bush’s presidency, it’s a bit...
View ArticleSame is Unfair
Giving the same sized government Covid-19 rent reimbursement to Louisville renters and New York renters is “unfair”, so says Kenneth Romero. He claims giving the same amount to everybody is a “cycle of...
View ArticleBiden actions to build Black wealth – appraisal confusion
Biden’s new plan is to, “take on discrimination in home appraisals” and “address inequality in home appraisals”. What? How can you mandate what an appraised value will be? Appraisers don’t set prices,...
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