I looked up the question, “How many federal agencies and bureaucracies are there?”  The answer is that the number is “approximately 2,000,” but no one has ever been able to count them.  The federal government, is the largest employer in the United States, and between the federal, state, county, and city governments,  the figure must […]

-Don’s Column, Don’s Opinions… “We have too many poor people, let’s help them out.”  “We need free schools, so everyone can have a good education.”  “Health care costs too much, and so many people can’t afford it.  Let’s make it affordable.”  “That nation is threatening us. Let’s go to war, defeat them, and make them […]

I didn’t write it.  But it was front page in the business section of the Wall Street Journal on August 8th.  It’s so obvious, that I don’t have to add an additional word, but will quote, word for word, from parts of the lengthy story. “Joe Susanno lost thousands of dollars from his retirement account, […]

-originally written in 2017 We’ve all heard, seen in person, or in photos of that marvelous statue in D.C. about the Marines who raised the American Flag on Mt Suribachi, the one high place on the island of Iwo Jima, during World War Two.  The statue was taken from one of the most famous photos […]

Ok Guys, I defy you to tell me, “What is a dollar?”  You can’t define it?  It’s sort of like trying to define a circular stairway without using your hands, I guess.  Maybe a dictionary will help?  Webster’s New World Dictionary 3rd College Ed. says the dollar is: “The basic monetary unit of the U.S., […]

(Originally posted in 2007) “Well, suppose they confiscate my gold just like Roosevelt did 75 (90) years ago?”  If I have heard that once, I must have heard it a hundred times.  Did Roosevelt confiscate everyone’s gold back in 1933?  If he did, how come there’s still a lot of it for sale in coin […]

**The Israelites (Jews), every 50 years, celebrated a ‘Jubilee Year,’ when all debts were removed and forgiven.  They celebrated 17 of them.  Now, just stop and think for a minute.  Suppose America had a Jubilee, with all debts forgiven.  I mean ALL DEBTS FORGIVEN.  Federal, corporate, private, and even individual debts, wiped off the books.  […]

I didn’t write is.  A pastor’s wife in northern Arizona, wrote it, but I’ll pass it along, with a few changes by me, as a last paragraph.  I changed her “O” to an “X.”   “And it came to pass in the age of insanity, that the people of the land called America, having lost […]

I have two favorite holidays:  Thanksgiving, and the Fourth of July.  Both celebrate our nation, which I love.  Thanksgiving, celebrates the pilgrim’s landing on our shores, to get rid of Mother England, and be free.  July 4th, celebrates our freedom British taxes, regimentation, and harassment.  Both celebrate freedom.  Freedom on Thanksgiving, for a small boatload, […]

Many years ago, maybe 70, I was playing some LP’s of old British songs,  (Then, there were no CD’s or cassettes, and LP’s had just replaced 10” 78 rpm records), and I ran across one titled, “To Anacreon in Heaven.”  It had a catchy melody, and I did a bit of research, to see who […]