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Should the Federal Government Strengthen Efforts to Fight Profiteering?
A few months ago I came across an annual report filed with the Securities and Exchange...
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Dealing with an Emotionally Disabled President
More than a hundred years ago, Sigmund Freud first described a personality trait he called narcissism. Freud said it was a dominant trait of...
Remembering on Memorial Day
Memorial Day: Remembering My Father as a Soldier
Just a year ago, my sister and I and our spouses were able to retrace the steps...
Unequal Growth
Even before the Corona Pandemic, the Trump Administration promise of restoring the industrial heart land had fallen flat. He did not “turn it around...
Poor Choices for the Taxpayer
Nearly a month after the Corona virus was first identified and two weeks after the first case was discovered in the United States, President...
Congress Must Fill the Void
As anyone who has watched the Trump Administration in action
over the past three years might have predicted, the...
You Picked a Fine Time to Leave Me Lucille
More than 40 years ago, Kenny Rogers’ released a hit single with
the chorus line, “You Picked a Fine Time to Leave Me...
False Promises
Americans have become increasingly cynical of politics and
politicians. Contrary to the popular view, I think most politicians actually
make a good faith effort...
Voter Beware
A recent survey of the most hated professions found that although politicians were slightly more popular than debt collectors and telemarketers, they were held...
Avoid the Wall for $200
Those without Visas can take to the Friendly Skies
Mexican citizens interested in entering the U.S. illegally should be cautious in the approach they use....
The Price of Rewarding Destructive Behavior
If federal workers didn’t have enough to worry about right now, there is a serious threat to their future beyond the current government shutdown...
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Will Congress Push Public Debt to 97 Percent of GDP?
The Congressional Budget Office has released an analysis of the new House Republican tax plan which indicates that the deficit will increase by $1.7...
