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 to list them in order, they would be unable to do it. So, in the interests of public awareness. From…
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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 Veterans, Korean Veterans. Halfway through the parade there was a single car. In it were elderly men in their commemorative…
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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 Golden Era was that period between 1870 and 1913 before the 116th Amendment. The 16th Amendment gave Congress the power…
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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 economy based on free trade sent the markets into a tailspin. George Washington’s Second Bill So what is the thinking…
A Word From Our Founders
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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 country’s inception. He was born in 1706 and died at the advanced age of 84 in 1790. So, his period…
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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. Benjamin Franklin Our First Postmaster The U.S. Postal Service was founded in 1775 by Benjamin Franklin a Founding Father of…
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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 digitally anointed brand that deserves the high valuation for ownership of its stock and ownership of their cars. Facts In…
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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 on to refer to empathy as if it were a bug in an operating system. If we could just reboot…
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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 the program. Ponzi Scheme The first element of a Ponzi scheme is that the initial contribution is gained through fraud….
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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 election against George McGovern in what can accurately be described as a landslide. Electoral Votes 520 to 17. Popular vote…