I don’t know where that name came from, but it’s common.  I have the greatest respect for them, and support them in any way I can, in spite of some of their foolishness.  Foolishness, such as riding around in air-conditioned cars rather than walking a beat, where crime could possibly be stopped.  Foolishness, such as […]

“In our society today, money’s value is measured by what it can buy–its purchasing power. The Massachusetts Bay Colony issued the first paper money in the colonies in 1690. Other colonies soon followed suit to meet the high demand for money fueled by trade between the colonies and the scarcity of coin (which was the […]

I hate the polluted cities and huge oil consumption, as do you, I am sure.  Even though welfare’s the reason, due to driving citizens out of their old neighborhoods, something must be done to stop the oil consumption and filthy air over our cities.  Electricity is the way.  Battery powered, electric cars would be noiseless, […]

I made a mistake in a previous column.  I said that Iraq was costing $150 million a day.  Untrue.  It is costing $300 million a day, or $8 billion a month.  Now, do you happen to know or realize just how much $8 billion is?  These figures are thrown around by the media and government […]

Me?  A racist?  Yup, as Gary Cooper would have said.  In other words I am “prejudiced,” which means like the rest of us, we pre-judge things, almost always based upon experience.  I know Californinans who are terribly biased, and have racist feelings for Mexicans.  Not me.  But I had a chain of ice cream parlours […]

Did you ever see a better buying opportunity than the last few days? Did you ever see a worse day for futures holders, many of whom were wiped out? Did you ever see a worse period for holders of the Dow, NASDAQ, et al, when the bottom fell out? Guess what again. The contents of […]

Even the brass admits to 25 other attempts at suicide.  Gitmo, of course, where hundreds are cooped up for years, with no legal representation, no charges filed, and no way out.  Then some numb skull general says the suicides are “AN ACT OF WAR.”  Three dead enslaved guys who probably didn’t know why they were […]

Before 9/11, we had none of the following:  (Thanks to Bob Wyman) War in Iraq, “detainees,”  War on terror, Sky Marshals, Patriot Act,, Warrantless searches of bank accounts, phone records, library reading, incredible searches of everything before plane boarding, thousands of servicemen dead, hundreds of thousands of Iraqis dead, war in Afghanistan, upcoming war in […]

Now I can tell you about the new 24 karat, .999 pure, (no hardener), Gold Eagle Coin.  First of all it looks nothing like the current Gold Eagle.  It looks exactly like the old Buffalo Nickels!  The buffalo and head are exactly like the Buffalo Nickel, only it is one ounce of pure gold.  It […]

All four are termed ’commodities,’ but all four are different. Let’s examine them all briefly, and see what attributes, liabilities, and chances one takes in investing in them. OIL Most oil is held by Muslim nations it seems, and in general they don’t like America. This does not mean they won’t sell us their oil, […]