In 1991 I wrote a book titled “I hold These Truths.”  It contained 90 chapters of my opinions on 90 subjects.  It went through four printings and has long been out of circulation.  I re-read it last weekend, and was surprised at how good a 21 year old book can be. For the next […]

(21 years ago, I wrote a book, titled ?I Hold These Truths.?  It went through four printings.  I read it last weekend for the first time in 20 years I guess, and was surprised at how correct I was 21 years ago.  It has 90 chapters!  Each one my opinion, on 90 different subjects.  For […]

  Ask my kids what MYOB means. They’ll know.  It simply means “Mind Your Own Business.”  That is fine if you want to keep gossip down, but to me, it is very good advice for the United States Government and State Department.  I know, I am preaching to the choir, but even Newt is on […]

  Is silver a better buy than gold?  Long term, I say yes.  Why?  Because, currently, gold is 50 times more expensive than silver, meaning that the ’ratio’ between them, is 50 to 1.  Throughout history, and even in 1980, gold was 16 times more expensive than silver, or a ’ratio’ of 16 to 1.  […]

  There are lots of averages which tell tales, and some don’t.  Averaging my age of 78 with an 18 year old, makes an average of 48, but that doesn’t make me any younger, or the 18 year old any smarter.  Susan, a client of mine, sent the column below, and I just can’t resist […]

  I am SICK of AFGHANISTAN!  I was also sick of Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Libya, and now Syria also, but this Afghanistan war is sheer nonsense, and not a single Congressman or Senator can give a logical explanation of why we are there.  The troops we are ’training,’ now shoot their American ’trainers’ in the back. […]

            Health Care Sans Government by David Stott      What are the main concerns about providing health care to the poor in America?  Simply put, it’s deemed to be way too expensive, and the fact that the government is involved, makes the administration completely inefficient, resulting in even higher cost.  What if we could eliminate government […]