We must protect our borders from the ravages of other countries making our products, stealing our companies, and destroying our jobs. Protection will lead to great prosperity and strength. Donald Trump 2017 Inaugural Address Chuck Todd: Senator … [Read more]
The Social Security Dilemma
I was in my 20s when I started full time work, and around 10:30 AM on my very first day I thought “How many years do I have to do this?” I recently turned 57 and still trudge to the office, and every day I ask myself “When can I quit working?” So … [Read more]
Why Liberals Don’t Understand Conservatives
“If you can't imagine how anyone could hold the view you are attacking, you just don't understand it yet.” -- Philosopher Anthony Weston in A Rulebook for Arguments I may be libertarian, but I understand my friends on the political left. One … [Read more]
What We Tell Children
In the mid-1970s, my grandparents volunteered to help a family of Vietnamese immigrants settle in their town, Chambersburg, PA. The Vietnamese father – I don't remember his name, so I will call him Mr Nguyen – had been an officer in the South … [Read more]
When is a Cake Just a Cake? Masterpiece Cakeshop vs Colorado Civil Rights Commission
Sometimes a wedding cake is just a baked mixture of flour and milk and sugar. My first prediction for 2018: The United States Supreme Court will rule in favor of the gay couple, Charlie Craig and David Mullins, in the “Masterpiece Cakeshop” case … [Read more]
The Poor and a Successful Anti-Poverty Program
In 1859, Joshua Norton, an Englishman living in San Francisco, took the unusual path in life of declaring himself Emperor of the United States. He issued “manifestos” proclaiming his decisions on this and that (at one point he announced that he had … [Read more]
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