Collecting My Thoughts

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...

Some of you are younger and not in the 1% age group. I decided to send it as a history lesson of what life was like then. Yes, I am one of...

 When my devotions include a Psalm, I frequently turn to "Meditations in the book of Psalms," by Erling C. Olsen (1939). It was co...

This morning in my Magnificat (journal) reading for November 4, Psalm 15 was suggested. When I read it,  immediately my thoughts turned to t...

It’s been suggested before. I don’t see for this time in history. I was reading Erling Olsen’s meditation on Psalm 124 this morning which ...

Yesterday morning the Psalm selection in Magnificat was Psalm 107—titled, "A Psalm with a message for America Today." Erling C. Ol...

As Biden puts together his "redistribution" team of former Obama and Clinton failures, I was reading today the wisdom of a man who...

Divini Redemptoris , On Atheistic Communism Pope Pius XI – 1937 https://www.papalencyclicals.net/pius11/p11divin.htm The Catholic Church...

Democrats want Americans in soup lines again, or jumping out of windows, just like the 1930s, when they were in control. Other countries pul...

"San Francisco’s ever-rising minimum wage—set to hit $15 next year—has restaurant owners asking for the check. At Least 60 Bay Area ...

"As Mr. Obama leaves office, the national mood is more sour than at anytime since the 1960s. The polls say some two-thirds of the voter...

Yes, Joe Biden really said this in Sept. 2008 while campaigning, but the worst error is thinking FDR did anything about the Great Depressi...

I'm reading Milton Friedman's "Free to choose, a personal statement."  It was published in 1980, but reads like today'...

Who invented the government's definition of poverty? Mollie Orshansky. She liked to say she was very poor, however, she managed to get a...

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

Book club today--I have a fresh cold, so I will pass and NOT pass it on.  Our March selection is a very interesting and heart warming story ...

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...