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Veteran’s Day

11/13/2021

A belated Veteran’s Day tribute. Little to add! He was getting old and paunchy And his hair was falling fast, And he sat around… Read More »Veteran’s Day

Hype and emotion surround the debate to vaccinate or not. Vaccination should be an individual decision. Government pushes the vaccine with religious and totalitarian fervor.… Read More »Vaccinate Based on Choice

A Little Humor in Tragic Times

11/05/2021

Such a picture and so many possibilities for a little humor in tragic times. Here are two other possibilities: How about a Nurse Ratched approach?… Read More »A Little Humor in Tragic Times

One of the Few Pleasures of Life for us Old Folks

10/13/2021

Take advantage of what pleasures and freedoms we have left:

Rules For Thee But Not For Me

10/11/2021

Rules for thee but not for me are normal for the political elite versus the citizens they are supposed to represent. Recently, two Federal Reserve… Read More »Rules For Thee But Not For Me

BLM

10/04/2021

Black Lives Matter (BLM), but for what purpose? It seems that they matter in the same way that Planned Parenthood’s founder, Margaret Sanger, believed. At… Read More »BLM

Victor Davis Hanson — Victimizers Quickly Become Victims

07/16/2021

I call Thomas Sowell a national treasure. His compatriot at the Hoover Institute, Victor Davis Hanson, also deserve for that title. The article below explains… Read More »Victor Davis Hanson — Victimizers Quickly Become Victims

A National Treasure Comments on a Lost Cause

04/21/2021

Thomas Sowell is truly a national treasure. His contributions to economics, history, philosophy and race are monumental and unsurpassed by anyone alive today and most… Read More »A National Treasure Comments on a Lost Cause

Been Played?

03/20/2021

How does this information make you feel? Probably like you have been played! How many annual flu outbreaks “outrank our so-called crisis?” Looks to me… Read More »Been Played?

Wealth If You Want It

04/03/2021

I had thought the book “Wealth if You Want It” would be ready to be made available around this date. It is not, although for… Read More »Wealth If You Want It

People Pushed Again Toward Revolution

01/06/2021

In a recent post it was suggested that the Kraken was on his way. The Kraken , in this case, referred to the US citizenry.… Read More »People Pushed Again Toward Revolution

The Kraken is Us

01/04/2021
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Sydney Powell made famous the mythical beast known as the Kraken. But thus far Sydney Powell’s kraken has been a no-show. That is about to… Read More »The Kraken is Us

You have rights antecedent to all earthly governments; rights that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws; right derived from the Great Legislator of the Universe.
John Adams
From the standpoint of economics, I don't think I have ever seen a more harmful set of programs and policies. These started with Bush but have been taken to insane levels by Obama. It defies logic, economics, common sense and history to believe that these programs will help. If implemented and/or continued, they will seriously compromise the nation's ability to sustain its current standard of living.
Monty Pelerin
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thomas Jefferson
The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism, but under the name of liberalism, they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program until one day America will be a socialist nation without ever knowing what happened.
Norman Thomas
The problems we face today are there because the people who work for a living are outnumbered by the people that vote for a living.
Thomas Sowell
The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it’s so rare.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups.
Henry Hazlitt
When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.
Thomas Jefferson

Daily experience proves clearly to everybody but the most bigoted fanatics of socialism that governmental management is inefficient and wasteful.
Ludwig von Mises
Quantitative Easing (QE) is not an economic policy. It is the Wizard of Oz attempting to fool people into believing the economy is still functioning properly. It will eventually fail and be seen as the great political swindle it always has been.
Monty Pelerin
In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.
John Kenneth Galbraith
The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.
Milton Friedman
Capitalism and socialism are two distinct patterns of social organization. Private control of the means of production and public control are contradictory notions and not merely contrary notions. There is no such thing as a mixed economy, a system that would stand midway between capitalism and socialism.
Ludwig von Mises
Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either [aristocracy or monarchy]. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.
John Adams
Conversions will occur a few at a time until, after the last hold-outs have died, the whole profession will again be practicing under a single, but now different, paradigm.
Thomas Kuhn
Mathematics is immutable except in group behavior exhibited by Home Owners Associations, Governments, Boards of Directors and similar gatherings. Here the mathematically impossible occurs -- the average IQ falls below the lowest IQ in the group.
Monty Pelerin