Collecting My Thoughts

I have an odd hobby—since the 1960s I’ve been collecting first issues of magazines (aka journals, periodicals, serials).  I have given it up...

Disorder in the Courts ATTORNEY: Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse? WITNESS: No. ATTORNEY: Did yo...

From today’s Wall Street Journal It may be over four decades since the passage of the Voting Rights Act, but whenever America votes tod...

Susan Rice, a leading candidate to replace Hillary Clinton as secretary of state, was worth an average $33.5 million in 2009. Hillary was wo...

“Costco, the giant wholesale-club operator, announced Wednesday that it will pay a special dividend of $7 a share before the end of the year...

The next-to-last time I saw Zig Ziglar, I was one of 17,000 in attendance at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California, where he was speaking ...

The Hero and the Fluke.

That doesn’t mean it doesn’t have a bias.  Bias is first  created by the stories that are selected, just as librarians first ban books by wh...

Obama’s tax hikes on the wealthy will cover about 8 days of his spending.

The percentage of our income that goes for food at restaurants and alcohol is 6.6.  The percentage for health care is 6.4.  But he nationa...

“She [Halle Berry] told him early on she wanted a child and that was her focus for a good deal of their early relationship,” said a friend o...

It’s high.  Infant mortality applies to age up to one year.  If they counted pre-born black infants who are killed in abortion, the figure w...

“. . . let's be clear about exactly what the threat is, though we have explained it here before. Going into effect on January 1 are i...

“. . . under both Republican President Calvin Coolidge and Democratic President John F. Kennedy, high-income people paid more tax revenues i...

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

They probably stole it. Taxing them will only get about a week, so why not just take all of it? A: Number of US households: 116,000,000 ...

Obama is leading from behind again, because it's been so successful. He wants his people to pressure Congress to raise taxes so we can g...

"On December 23, 2011, President Obama signed into law the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2012 (Public Law 112-74). This new federal ...