Sent to me by a customer.  Thanks Dennis! His portrait is on the $2.00 Dollar Bill. Thomas Jefferson was a very remarkable man who started  learning very early in life and never stopped. At 5, began studying under his cousin’s tutor. At 9, studied Latin,Greek and French. At 14, studied classical literature and additional languages. At 16, […]

It all began in 1866, on May 5th, in Waterloo New York, when a group of locals decided to commemorate their Civil War deceased.  The group decorated their deceased loved ones’ graves with flowers, and had a brief prayer.  Word spread, and within a couple of years, other cities and towns began decorating graves of […]

I Love the Journal.  Wall Street, that is, but Thursday’s front page headline said, “Inflation Eases.” The lie is that inflation can be ‘cured’ or ‘eased,’ with high interest rates, because it will discourage mortgages, credit sales, and in general, commerce, and that inflation is caused by greedy grocers and retailers, who should be put […]

I have many times, heard people, politicians, and various ‘important’ people, being politically ignorant, un-informed, or weak, being called ‘sheep.’  Because they follow their leader, and like lemmings and sheep, while following their leader, they walk off a cliff.  It’s happened millions of times in the real world, and I understand that elephants often do […]

I usually watch PBS on Wednesday evenings, and the first show, is always “Nature.”  In it, regardless of which animals, birds, or fishes are shown, the results are always the same.  Last week, it was all about ospreys, but it can be about elephants or penguins.  The DVD is always available for $25 or so, […]

I wrote a long time ago, about Hobby Lobby’s having 99% of their merchandise made in China.  I’s also Home Depot, Walmart, and a host of others, which are contributing to our enemy’s prosperity.  It probably started with Nixon, who befriended a backward, communist, enslaved state, running as if chairman Mao were still alive, and […]

To start out with, when writing a column each week, I have to do a bit of research, and I did so with the American Silver Eagle, which was first produced in 1986.  I always thought they were produced at the U.S. Mint at West Point, New York, but I find that they are also […]

In 1994, I wrote a piece called, “Road to Ruin,” and I like the title, but that article was 3450 words long, so I’ll just epitomize parts of it.  Here’s one paragraph: “No country in history, that began a welfare system, has ever survived.  From the Roman Empire to today, with all civilized lands having […]

Governments are the largest employer in America.  Four million federal employes, state governments 5.5 million, and local governments have 14.2 million.   Surely then, all 23.7 million employees of all three governments, must have invented something, since we are all saddled by them?  Do these governments show a profit, since they employ so many?  With […]

This is from a couple of sentences from one of Hollywood’s greatest films, “Inherit the Wind,” (1960), with Spencer Tracy and Frederic March.  It’s the story of the 1925 “Scopes Monkey Trial,” held in Dayton Tennessee.  A high school teacher, John Scopes was teaching evolution, which was against the law in that state.  Spencer Tracy, […]