Collecting My Thoughts

 Tonight's movie at the Estates almost didn't happen. "Mr. Blandings builds his dream house" is a post WWII tale of "...

Not my words, but exactly my thoughts from the newsletter of investment advisor Joel Ross: "Mamdani has only been in office a few days ...

Tonight, at the Forum (aka The Estates) we enjoyed the music of https://www.empirewild.com/ Empire Wild, 60 minutes of 2 cellos and a piani...

How important is K-12 education? Very. Extremely. Critical. We've got citizens under the age of 40 who didn't live during or learn a...

Why are Obama and Politico defending or endorsing Democrat Jay Jones? Saying "sorry" just doesn't cut it when he fantasized ab...

Communists like Zohran Mamdani of NY believe the basic Marxist lie: wealth is stolen from the poor and his supporters are victims. The Marxi...

Zohran Mamdani is such a hypocrite--but what else could a communist be? He's whiter and far more rich than I am, yet he preaches envy, a...

Testimony wrapped up this week, and closing arguments are scheduled following the holiday. Judge Juan Merchan, the worst in our history, sen...

  " In 2014,  [Jon] Stewart sold his 6,280-square-foot Tribeca duplex to financier Parag Pande for $17.5 million. The property’s asking...

On January 8, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) reported that 378,504 people have arrived in Egypt since the war in ...

New York City, spends $28,000 per student -- half-a-million dollars per classroom! Private charities step up to the challenge to send kids t...

While I'm sort of enjoying not listening to the House (Democrat controlled) Daily Drool over investigations of Trump to beef up their ca...

That's interesting. There were 13,276 diagnosed Covid19 cases in Ohio by April 22. "Not everyone who is diagnosed is being admitted...

I am so sick of the anti-Trump drivel in every media source--this in "Architect," which awards issue (336 pp) is the size of the o...

Pro-Publica and Frontline reporting on moving high functioning mentally ill people out of managed homes to supportive “independent” living. ...

When you receive your paycheck and look at the withholding for federal, state and sometimes city taxes, along with Social Security and Medic...

"Non-Hispanic black women continue to be disproportionately impacted by abortion. In 2016, as in previous years, more African American ...

Every day I glance through the Washington Post political stories. If there are eight about the campaign, seven will be anti-Trump, with no ...

Harry writes:  "Sitting at a stop-light, I was rear-ended last night on Bruckner Boulevard by a beat-up old Toyota going about 15 mph. ...

I don’t know why this story is making the news (saw it on Fox) 10 months after it was published, but many very wealthy people are living in ...