March 30, 2024

The path to communism

The Supreme Court held that the minimum wage law was constitutional because it reasonably regulated contracts to protect the health and welfare of workers. This opened the door to regulate all economic activity, on the grounds of health and w...

August 19, 2021

A new morality?

I recently had an experience that I'm having trouble getting my head around and causing me to wonder if morality is dead.  I know it isn't.  There are too many acts of kindness stories.  Maybe morality is just er...

October 3, 2020

The health insurance conundrum

In the early '60s, one could afford to pay medical providers what was billed — that is, medical providers were required to bill what their customers could afford, like all others in the economy.  Catastrophe insurance was availabl...

September 27, 2020

Why November 3 is so important this year

There is more at stake in the upcoming election than left versus right control. The reason: The United States and its allies are the police of the world.  Without the United States, there would be no police.  Shipping lanes wou...

August 19, 2020

The 'peaceful' protesters' creed

If you don't do what we want we will make you miserable. The "peaceful" protesters, in cities such as Portland and Seattle, don't advocate violence, for the sake of argument, nor do they condone violence, so they say. But...

July 8, 2020

The real BLM

Someone comes to the front door of the house where you live and says he would like to put a sign in your window.  It is not large, probably 12 X 12 inches.  It says in big black letters, "BLACK LIVES MATTER." How woul...

July 3, 2020

Modern-day stoning

I was in a mob once.  It started out as good fun.  Protesting.  (I would give the details, but they are pretty boring.)  Soon, however, it turned into mischief.  Again, harmless enough.  But...

June 11, 2020

Protests as pandering

My son Mike and I had breakfast Saturday morning, June 6, 2020, and then went over to the Palmer, Alaska visitor center.  I wanted to see their museum, housed in an exact floor plan of the house I grew up in in Pine Ridge, South Dakota....

October 26, 2019

Musings on the homeless situation in Eugene, Oregon

The guest was a Eugene, Oregon businessman, tired of having to clean up human excrement and needles in front of his business every morning.  He said Eugene is a magnet for the homeless.  They aren't hassled by law enforcement,...