The commonly used term “GDP,” stands for ‘gross domestic product,’ formerly “GNP,” or ‘gross national product.’ It matters not. Both stand for the same thing, and I am certain it is the most miss-understood measuring term there is, even though it is commonly used in news broadcasts and especially on financial channels and papers.  Bake […]

Excerpts from a column I wrote 06-6-2003 In describing the Garden of Eden, the Bible says at Genesis 2:10-12, “A river flowed out of Eden to water the garden, and there it divided and became four rivers.  The name of the first is Pishon; it is the one which flows around the whole land of […]

I read a lot, and in 2001, Gordon Chang, (He’s been on Fox News many times), wrote a book titled, “The Coming Collapse of China.” I bought it, read it, and forgot it, until after I wrote the column a couple of weeks ago, about “China’s Future.”  I write in the front of books I […]

In Saturday’s Journal, there was an extensive piece about storing dollars overseas, obviously to avoid taxation.  The author went on about storing wealth in ‘responsible,’ ‘well run’ nations, who would welcome your money, and guard it well.  As Biden would say, “Come on now.” There are lots of people who believe what they read, and […]

I have written about this already, but I feel more and more certain of it as I pen this column.  I wish that this would spread around the nation, because I honestly believe it is true.  Just a review, first of all.  Until 1991, the cold War was in full bloom.  It was the ‘free […]

I just consulted the internet, to find out how many volcanos erupt every year, and I was surprised that the number is 60 to 80.  The reason I inquired, is because a single eruption, will spew forth more carbon dioxide, (stupidly called greenhouse gas), than all the moronic attempts to go “green’ by shutting down […]

I think the word “Aid” is a couple hundred years old or maybe more, but it means just that, as in “First Aid,” or help.  Churches and charities have always given aid to the needy, but at FDR’s election, the word took on an additional meaning, and that was to simply garner votes.  Aid was […]

I don’t know why I didn’t write about the absurdity of both, decades ago.  Maybe I, like most people, simply accept them because they are commonplace and seem innocuous.  Get paid for not working or being sick?  Maybe commonplace and expected, but not innocuous. Sick pay, is nothing more than an extra paid vacation.  A […]

“In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature of the cause of the accusation; to be confronted with […]

We are mostly enraged at Biden goofing up hideously in the Afghanistan exodus, so I am now going to make your day a bit nicer…I hope.  I wrote this a long time ago, and it isn’t dated, but undoubtedly in 2001 or earlier. Once, a long time ago in the fair city of Philadelphia, lived […]