For as long as I can remember I have heard people say “Don’t discuss politics or religion”.That makes sense because both are subjective issues and people usually adhere to religion as a ‘faith-based system of salvation’. Faith is the sticking point.
People do not change unless given a reason and since the principles of a [...]
A number of years ago I started seeing ads on TV that went something like:
“I owed the IRS $10,000 but I went to the firm of Joe Cheat and Associates and I only had to pay back $400.”
This, in my opinion, was the start. People tried to weasel out of their obligations in a semi-acceptable [...]
It appears history is starting to go backwards. We are returning to the village structure that existed before the automobile became so common.
With automobiles came the freedom to go anywhere one wanted at anytime. Gasoline was cheap and people started ranging much farther away from home than they had in the past. It [...]
Just read this morning that Congress and the President have decided to borrow $168 billion from China to fund the ‘tax rebate’ for us.
With that, I expect, most will be spent by us to buy products from China.
Perhaps the Columbian drug dealers would like to get in on this deal also. I’m certain that they [...]
I am reading a very interesting book edited by Robert Cowley, “What if?: The World’s Foremost Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been“.
It is an anthology of essays that look into historic events which would have had drastic consequences for the way we live today if some small event had not happened.
Ignoring the entire point [...]
