I wrote about it over 15 years ago, and I have recently begun to wonder why there have been no efforts to abolish it, since it has never been accurately followed. I’ve changed a few things, but this piece is important. The 17th Amendment was ratified April 8, 1913, and the 16th income tax Amendment […]

I wrote about it over 15 years ago, and I recently saw it on Turner Classic Movies. I changed the previous column in several ways, but it was still a great film and story! A kid’s movie? A child’s story? Was it that simple? Maybe not. Frank Baum wrote the story, and it was first […]

“What do you mean? This ship is un-sinkable. It’s got every single up-date possible, to make it fast safe, and enjoyable. I king you.” I’ve seen the three really good films about the Titanic, (the best one is in black and white and I think 1953), and went to a Titanic show a few years […]

It doesn’t look good, at least to me. I voted for Trump, sent him money, and his promises to seal the borders and shrink the government, gave him a literal ‘landslide.’ The landslide, was because he won so many states, even though he only got five million more votes than Biden. He got them in […]

“My dear Colonel Dick: I have long determined to make public the origin of the greenback, and tell the world it was Dick Taylor’s creation. I think it was in January, 1862, on or about the 16th, that I did so. You came, and I said to you: ”What can we do?” Said you, “Why […]

For over a hundred years, the French used the livre as a currency. It was not backed by gold, but since a good deal of France was owned by the Catholic Church and the nobility, it didn’t really matter. The serfs and groveling peasants got sick of the corrupt rule, and by means of protesting, […]

“The trouble with socialism, is that eventually you run out of other people’s money.” Margaret Thatcher. The following descriptions of three nations, as they existed before socialism (communism) took charge of them. Compare them currently! The descriptions before socialism I found on the internet. Cuba “Cuba’s reputation as an exotic and permissive playground, came to […]

40 years ago, I bought my first computer. It was 1985, and I was delighted that I could write something, store it on a little disc, and retrieve it by clicking a button. I had been writing for most of my life already, and had columns in a few major newspapers such as in Phoenix, […]

President Donald Trump is proposing a true socialistic idea, which like all socialistic plans fail, as Margaret Thatcher said a couple of decades ago, “The trouble with socialism is, that eventually you run out of other people’s money.” About 30 miles from me, is the little town of Nucla. It was founded over a hundred […]

“I never get tired of illustrating the fall of the dollar.” That was the first line of last week’s column, and what made me remember it, was the fact that I found 100 silver “Walking Liberty” halves, in my safe. I had no idea what they are worth, or how long I have had them, […]