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It’s TEN not EIGHT!
We spend a lot of time holding the Ten Commandments up as the codified form of our deepest moral values. However, I bet that if you ask the average person ...
Memorial Day Challenge
It was a beautiful day for a parade; the bagpipes blared down Main Street and Broadway. Then the brass band, followed by Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, Brownies, Young veterans, Vietnam ...
A GOLDEN ERA?
In the past few weeks our new President has tried to impose a tariff-based economy on what has been since WWII a global free trade system. He remarked that America’s ...
T T T T TARIFFS?
Not Again No getting around tariffs. A broad variety of these charges on goods from other countries were announced on April 2nd. Not surprising this radical departure from a global ...
Benjamin Franklin: Our Founding Blogger
Benjamin Franklin is the only Founding Father to have signed, The Declaration of Independence, The Treaty of Paris and the Constitution. The Trifecta; The three most important documents at our ...
UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE
I have often heard people question why the US postal service, USPS, cannot be as efficient as UPS or FedEx. There are voices clamoring for privatization of the postal service. ...
TESLA IS JUST A CAR
Tesla is a car. It’s also a company which makes batteries and solar energy equipment. But mostly it’s a car company. They believe they are a special car company. A ...
Empathy Suicide?
This last week there has been a remarkable pair of statements from the richest man in the world. The first “The fundamental weakness in western civilization is empathy.” He goes ...
Ponzi Scheme vs Social Security
The richest man in the world has now proclaimed that Social Security is a Ponzi Scheme. Nothing could illustrate his total misunderstanding and complete disregard for the powerful benefits of ...
Watergate: Words From Our Preservers
It has been over fifty years since the Nixon administration attempted to bug the headquarters of the Democratic Party in the Watergate Hotel. Nixon was about to win the general ...
A Parking Spot That Saved Our Democracy
Memories of the Watergate Scandal have grown dim. I came of age in the 70’s and Watergate was a central event in my understanding of what it meant to be ...
GOVERNMENTS VS CORPORATIONS
There are basic differences between a Government and a Corporation. Corporations The only goal of a corporation is to provide SHAREHOLDER VALUE. That is the mantra of the Business Roundtable. ...