Collecting My Thoughts

For many years we had a "Friday night Date" and went out to eat. About 60 years. Then came Covid. The restaurants closed, churches...

Five years ago, April 28, 2017, I wrote this: "Why should conservative taxpayers be paying to fund our "everything is hate speech...

Bill and I went to high school together; don't think I ever talked to him then.  He has an email list made up of Mt. Morris people, and ...

$57,431.65 for each of 117,343,000 households. "Debt held by the public represents federal debt issued by Treasury and held by invest...

I heard on the news today that the median age for a first time home buyer is 33. I was 22 when we bought our first home (a duplex in Champai...

I haven't checked out this story--someone is clearly misguided if it is true. But what is true is it was completely unnecessary: Among...

Even from sound conservative sources I see comments like this, "No one who works full time should live in poverty." Well, think ab...

Story at Huffington Post , May 14, 2013 “The Obama administration is forecast to turn a record $51 billion profit this year from student...

“Negotiation is how the Founders intended for things to work. They knew that people would disagree, but in negotiation and bargaining, all...

An article in today’s WSJ reports the average student graduates with $30,000 indebtedness.  I'm surprised the  debt is "only" ...

Some people watch it only for the ads, which are very, very expensive. At Super Bowl XLVII between the Ravens and 49ers, the average cost o...

“But I am absolutely committed to fiscal responsibility, which is why I’ve already proposed freezing all discretionary spending unrelated to...

“The full extent of the problem has remained hidden from policy makers and the public because of less than transparent government financial ...

This is a public service announcement for any Occupiers, or people who call themselves the 99%-ers, or those earning the new Girl Scout bad...

"Researchers [at Ohio State University] found that the more credit card and college loan debt held by young adults aged 18 to 27, the h...

President Johnson, a Democrat, declared a war on poverty, and poverty won ( NYT declares War on Poverty lost , 1999). I remember reading th...

This herd of sacred cows has doubled in size in two years, from Bush cows to Obama cows. Alan Simpson said that on Fox News last night. He...

When I got back from church tonight, I checked my site meter, and my blog about the Morgenthau quote had suddenly gone off the charts, so I ...