Celebration? Yes!  Let’s all celebrate, because now, one out of seven Americans receive food stamps!  According to the ding bat ’economists’ in that home of ding bats, Washington D.C., they say that food stamps gives people money to spend, and thereby helps the economy.  According to them, welfare has the same effect on the […]

  The space station, exploration, supposed moon landings, trips to Mars, and now a six year trip to Jupiter, as far as I can see, is, and have seen, a total waste of probably a trillion dollars.  How’s that for a blanket statement? Of what value is that space station, which keeps getting additions to […]

  “The Rock Island Line,” was a popular tune decades ago, and I’m certain many of you remember it.  I’m a railroad buff, as you perhaps already know, and it occurs to me that the demise of the Rock Island Railroad, whose last train ran in 1980, might be comparable to the mess in D.C., which […]

  To watch the London riots on TV, was shocking to me.  The “bobbies” (London police) had no guns!  They had little round shields, and a few dogs against hundreds and maybe even thousands of mostly black rioters, who succeeded in burning an entire neighborhood over a three day period.  They were breaking into homes, […]

This column, I wrote in 2006  The free coinage or silver and gold had been adopted in 1792. This meant that anyone could take gold or silver to the mint, and have it coined. A silver dollar would have a dollar’s worth of silver, and the much smaller gold coin would have a dollar’s worth […]

  “It’ll never get to $300.”  When you are ancient like me, and have been doing this for as long as I have, you remember the past, and “It’ll never get to $300,” was spoken to me a hundred times, I’ll bet.  That was about gold, of course.  As the years passed, it wasn’t difficult […]

  In the 1939 film, “The Wizard of Oz,” Dorothy Gale (Judy Garland) and her little dog Toto, were swept away from Aunt Em and Uncle Henry’s Kansas house in a tornado, and found themselves in a Technicolor land of Oz, with all sorts of strange things, people and animals..  “The Wizard Of Oz” was […]

  Two dollars million a minute?  That’s the amount the United States of America goes into debt every minute.  $2 million a minute.  This means that the D.C.Gang spends $2 million a minute more than it takes in.  Just think of it!  $2 million a minute further in debt, 24 hours a day, 365 days […]

  The Greatest man in our history, is undoubtedly Thomas Jefferson.  Consider what he did and at what age:  At age 5, he began studying law under his cousin’s tutor. At 9, he studied Latin and French. At 14, he studied classical literature and additional languages. At 16, he entered the college of William and […]

  The word “AID” always means help of some kind or other.  Our church has about 20 missionaries it gives aid to every month, and of course ’First Aid’ is an old expression, dating back to the eleventh century.  But I wish to examine the word ’aid’ from a 78 year period, and look at […]