Discriminate Against Equality
Boeing wants to move manufacturing from Washington state to South Carolina because, among other things, South Carolina does not require employees to be part of a union. The Federal government is suing...
View ArticleNational Debt Doesn’t Matter Blather
Federal debt doesn’t matter. So say MIT and Univ of Connecticut professors Simon Johnson and James Kwak in their book “Thirteen Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown”. I...
View ArticleSouthern California Edison Extortion
Southern California Edison electric company wants me to pay a $75 setup fee and $10 per month in order to NOT install new equipment. Can you imagine if the termite man was authorized to bill you to NOT...
View ArticleObamacare Tax is the Other Half of Everything
Andrew Packer wrote “Obamacare Decision Says: ‘We Can Tax You on Anything – Whether You Buy It or Not‘” Well, yes, true. Yet his post, like all the others’ I’ve read, doesn’t capture the ugly...
View ArticleYou Didn’t Build That
It took less than 24 hours for the Internet to come alive after Obama’s recent comment praising government and putting down accomplishments of entrepreneurs. Do a Google search using the title of this...
View ArticleObamacare Health Care Act – Reading Material
Grace-Marie Turner wrote an article about the Obamacare health care act. She’s the president of Galen Institute, a think tank promoting patient-centered health care. Here are the references in her...
View ArticleWord 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...
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