Collecting My Thoughts

" . . . But the biggest White House remodel to date started in the 1940s. That's when President Harry S. Truman fully gutted and re...

Complaints by the locals about imported migrant labor is not new to the U.S. Native born Californians were very hostile to the dust bowl agr...

A hike in the minimum wage for federal workers to $15/hour is in Biden's American rescue plan. Don't fall for it. Only a tiny perce...

Today I was thinking about the millions and millions of people praying for President Trump and the nation. It's really amazing. Maybe 70...

This past week I've come to the conclusion that perhaps the President has understood the seriousness of this virus better than the scien...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PvxAOGYjY0 Byrds were #1 in 1965 with Ecclesiastes chapter 3 “National Bible Week in the United States ...

I'm not an FDR fan, but I'm surprised I didn't see/hear more on the 70th anniversary of his death/funeral this past week. Was I ...

Former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt has lunch with students at the Ohio State University on November 13, 1959. Notice the purse under ...

Stuart Chase worked for President Roosevelt. According to Wikipedia, Chase, born in 1888, was an American economist and engineer trained at ...

Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) compared Obama favorably to Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) after the SOTU speech last night. She might want t...

Actually, President Obama has learned the lessons from the 1930s Great Depression well.  The Great Depression was extended by FDR who rais...

            We scratch our heads that people still support Obama despite his failures in the domestic economy and the foreign scene, parti...

President Clinton likes to bask in the glory of the brisk economy of his years (like he did in the convention), when with a Republican Congr...

Ronald Clark, a blogger and retired systems engineer for the Navy from Indianapolis, Indiana writes: Back when the depression was going and...

Yes, and like FDR, he'll drag this out to achieve his political ends--more government in our lives. FDR needed more revenue to support ...

It's busy work Mr. President. The stimulus (ARRA) didn't stimulate--that one mile of sidewalk in my neighborhood didn't produce...

The Bush Obama recession is starting to look a whole lot like the Hoover FDR Depression. FDR extended Hoover's attempts to right the eco...

The December 1, 2010 JAMA has a commentary by two MDs on "Addressing food insecurity; freedom from want, freedom from fear," begin...

How many people get to play with the lives of 300 million people, and maybe the world's population, to see if their PhD thesis works? ...